The Fates Had It: Harvard 9, Yale 0

The scene was somewhat reminiscent of a Greek tragedy--the audience at the Harvard-Yale squash match knew the history, but they showed up to line the Hemenway gym stands anyway, just to see if there would be any new wrinkles in the story.

As it turned out, the script was an old, familiar one, and the Crimson gave an encore performance, sending the Elis home 9-0 losers.

The contest was also the last Hemenway stage appearance for seniors Scott Mead, Ken Ehrlich and captain Bill Kaplan. All three took their curtain calls admirably, winning their matches with minimal difficulty.

Playing in the spotlight at number one as understudy to Mike Desaulniers (who was away at an individual tournament), Kaplan dominated Yale's Larry Gile for most of their match, winning, 15-11, 15-4, 9-15, 15-6. Kaplan moved like a cat throughout the match, leaving Gile virtually no chance to get untracked.

Mead had a slightly tougher time of it at number five, but the plot's outcome was the same. Mead dropped two close opening games to Eli Andy Mathieson, 14-16, 17-18, but he came back to win the last three games--15-6, 15-4, 15-3--and the match.

The last of the retiring performers, sixman Ken Ehrlich, took it to Bob Plotz with a relatively easy 3-1 victory. After losing the first game, 11-15, Ehrlich coasted through the remaining games, 15-9, 15-9, and 15-10.

Some of the only exciting drama of the afternoon came in John Havens's 3-1 win over Bob Hanson at the number two slot. Havens won the crowd with his court antics, and then proceeded to demolish Hanson with his powerful game.

The rest of the contest's drama came in Mark Panarese's five-game triumph at number three.

After an easy 15-6 opening game win, Panarese dropped a pair of 17-15 games, and had to gut out four-point and eight-point victories in the last two games to take the match.

Overwhelmed

The rest of coach Dave Fish's supporting cast handled their opponents with ease. Ned Bacon won, 3-0, at four, George Bell and John Stubbs swept their opponents at seven and eight, and Bob Blake triumphed at number nine, 3-1.

Although Princeton edged Harvard for the Ivy team title with its 8-1 victory at Penn, the Crimson was right on the mark Saturday with its well-executed, if predictable, upstaging of Yale.