Racquetwomen Topple Bruins

The Radcliffe squash team rolled to its third straight victory by beating Brown, 5-2, in Providence.

Radcliffe took the middle five matches, and dropped only the first and seventh positions.

Number two Julia Moore started things off by beating her Bruin foe, 3-2, after coming back from a 2-1 deficit. She won the fourth and fifth games with a show of power, allowing only 14 points in the two games.

Sally Blair, playing number three for Radcliffe, played "the strongest match," coach Eric Cutler said yesterday. Adrienne Morphy, Blair's opponent, hit Blair above the eye with the ball early in the first game.

"I was determined not to let it bother me," Blair said yesterday about her injury. "It made me more anxious to win." She won her match easily, relinquishing 23 points during the match.

Numbers four, five and six took their matches, giving up only one game among them. Emmi Levin and Liz Schafer, playing at the fourth and sixth position, blanked their opponents, while number five Jane Hadsel won 3-1.

Terry Brody, a Brown freshman, downed Radcliffe captain and number one player Susy Handy, 3-2. Handy was winning 2-1 after the break, but dropped the fourth game in a tie-breaker, 18-15, and lost the fifth, 15-9.

"I was terrible," Handy said yesterday, "I didn't watch the ball and I didn't move a lot because the floor was so slippery."

Radcliffe's only other loss came at the number seven position, where Becky Niles lost 3-2.