Quakers sow oats in league
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Pat McDermott passed for 209 yards and two touchdowns as Penn defeated Columbia, 14-3, in Philadelphia yesterday. The victory was the 17th straight in Ivy League play for the Quakers (4-1, 2-0), tying their own league record set during the 1993-95 seasons.
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It's been likened to a pasture and a parking lot. The outfield surface at Wrigley Field has been taking hits from opposing players because of its rough patches, small holes, and uneven terrain.
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Lexington and Woburn boys' soccer teams are expected to finish at the front of the pack in the Middlesex League. After yesterday's 4-0 victory at Woburn, the Minutemen have a head start.
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When the Old Colony League was trimmed to just four teams during the offseason, the spotlight was quickly cast on Bridgewater-Raynham's game at Marshfield Oct. 29.
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Texas Rangers righthander Willie Eyre uncorked a wild pitch - it's in the bylaws of the Baseball Writers Association of America that all wild pitches are "uncorked" - and when Jacoby Ellsbury, having reached second via a single and stolen base, was approaching third on the evening of July 2, the 36,778 in attendance at Fenway rose as one, screaming ...
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HOLYOKE -- Once Andover's 4x100-meter relay team got word of the news, the girls were not only ecstatic, but literally jumping for joy in the middle of the track. The Golden Warriors took home a gold medal for the second week in a row after setting a state record with a time of 48.26, breaking the mark of 48.68 set ...
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Parity between teams has been pointed to as one reason the NFL has become the most popular professional sports league. What some teams from Eastern Massachusetts want to know is, why wouldn't that work on the high school level?
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The Mayflower Large went into the weekend with three unbeaten teams. Today, there's just one.
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It took until the final league game of the season, but the four contenders for the boys' city basketball playoffs have been decided. Madison Park (18-0), East Boston (17-2), and Brighton (13-1) had secured the top three spots, and they were joined yesterday by O'Bryant (12-2), which took care of Dorchester, 84-53.
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Major League Baseball and the players' union came together yesterday in a rare show of compromise and solidarity, one aimed at refurbishing the game's tarnished image, safeguarding players' long-term health, and restoring credence to the offensive accomplishments of the game's sluggers.
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Curry College is heading back to the Division 3 NCAA Tournament. The Colonels (9-1), New England's lone representative, opens postseason play tomorrow vs. Liberty League champion Hobart (8-1) at Boswell Field in Geneva, N.Y.
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BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- If they did not necessarily play better football, it was enough for the Harvard Crimson to play longer yesterday, spotting Lehigh a 24-7 lead midway through the second quarter before storming back with four straight touchdowns, then hanging on for a 35-33 win.
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Marvin Burroughs and Terry Butler each scored touchdowns and Villanova held off a late Penn rally last night to defeat the Quakers, 16-13, in Philadelphia.
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The O'Bryant girls' track team came into the second half of the Boston City League championship at the Reggie Lewis Center yesterday poised to take first place. After all, it had already won 13 consecutive league titles, finished a successful 4-1 regular season, and held a sizable lead after Monday's events.
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Cohasset 20 Abp. Williams 14 BRAINTREE -- Twenty unanswered points in a seven-minute span late in the game by Cohasset stunned Archbishop Williams and provided the Skippers with a 20-14 victory yesterday at Memorial Field.
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One of my buddies had a brilliant idea I hadn't thought of: Check Pennsylvania's maps for what's called a co-op farm. It's not a commune, it's a farm which offers up it's land to the public for hunting.  What the Farmer Gets  If the hunters are decent-folk, they generally clean up the trash off the property. I personally built a blind out of rocks I happened to find in a fallow field to give me something to sit on and a hiding place. The blind is next to a power utility pole, so it gives me a great shot at birds coming in slowly to land on the wires. He got his field cleaned essentially for free since I also picked up trash. I don't want my game animals eating garbage.  The other bonus the farmer enjoys is limited crop losses to wildlife. This particular farmer was doing the soy-corn-fallow crop rotation which is pretty typical Pennsylvania crop rotation. Doves love this stuff and eat it up. Probably about 2/3rds of the doves I cleaned had corn in their crop.  What the Hunters Get  A place to hunt with a ton of acreage devoted to what essentially amounts to bait.
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While a flock of seagulls flew gracefully above, the Southeastern and Blue Hills players slid all over the field yesterday. Warrior Matt Standbury was able to slip in on a 2-point conversion to preserve the Warriors' undefeated regular-season record with an 8-6 win in nonleague action.