After winning the Howe Cup, the squad trounced Dartmouth and Yale both by 8-1 scores.

"Harvard has the most incredible team," said Melissa Persall, Yale's number six player. "Thank God some of them are graduating."

"Harvard is superb," Yale Coach Dale Walker said. "It was a match I never thought we'd do very well in."

In the last regular-season match, Harvard and Princeton both entered the match with undefeated records. The winner of the match would be declared the national champion.

The racquetwomen crushed Princeton, 8-1, in late February to win its second straight national nine-woman championship. One of the biggest matches of the day saw Edge defeat Princeton's Demer Holleran, the then number-one ranked amateur. Edge recorded a four-game victory over Holleran.

Edge secured the top ranked amatuer position with a four-game victory over Holleran in the Women's Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Championship at Dartmouth earlier this month.

"I've been coaching for 17 years and I've never seen a stronger team," Princeton's Betty Constable said. "They just blew us away. This was the worst defeat ever for us."

In addition to the impressive slew of team awards the Crimson earned this season, many of the racquetwomen also garnered individual honors.

Besides winning the Betty Ritchie award, Edge was named to her fourth straight Ivy and All-America squash teams.

Stephanie Clark and Jenny Holleran were also named All-America and All-Ivy. Co-Captain Lucy Miller snagged All-Ivy recognition.

In February, Edge won the U.S. Women's Nationals consolation championship--and took fifth place in the overall tournament--which included the top pro squash players.

Racquetwoman Sheila Morrissey won the first-round consolation championship at the ISA's for the second straight year, while Clark rebounded from, a first-round loss to finish in second place in the second-round consolation.

Interchangable

The 1987-'88 Crimson team was strong from number one to number nine. The players from three to seven were interchangeable.

The crimson also received help from two talented freshmen, Clark and Daphne Onderdonk. Clark posted an undefeated season, dropping only three games all season. Four other Crimson players--Edge, Emily Knowlton, Morrissey and Hope Nichols--went undefeated. Onderdonk continued to improve all year and was a force at the number eight and nine positions.