Sportswrap

Cross Country

The school year is only a week old, but Harvard's cross country teams have already survived two tests of skill. Barely.

In a meet that the men's squad would just as soon forget, Cornell, Penn and Columbia took their turns dealing the Crimson dual-meet defeats at New York's Van Cortlandt Park Saturday.

Host Columbia ran up a 35-20 score over Harvard, Penn handed the Crimson a 43-18 defeat and Cornell fell one point short of a perfect score with its lopsided 37-16 victory over the young and inexperienced harriers.

Harvard failed to fill the spot vacated by its number-one speedster, Paul Gompers, who took the week off to rest in preparation for the rest of the season.

John Oja, the Crimson's top runner in eighth place, explained that Harvard fell out of contention before the course's halfway point, Oja said.

On the women's side, sophomores Jody Dushay and Toby Warden led the Crimson to a second-place showing in a close match-up with Manhattan, Cornell, Rutgers and Fordham.

Fordham took top honors with 61 points, followed by Harvard (63), Manhattan (66), Cornell (67) and Rutgers (81).

Dushay sprinted to fourth place in the individual race, while Warden wound up seventh.

Women's Volleyball

The Harvard women's volleyball team split its weekend slate by defeating Boston University and losing to Wellesley in a tri-match Saturday at Wellesley.

"We were a little tired after Friday's game," Crimson Captain Maia Forman said. "The subs got some good playing time against B.U.--they did a very good job while they were in there."

Playing in a best-of-three format Harvard took the first two sets to knock off B.U. Wellesley took two of three sets to repel the spikers in the following match.

Tennis

Harvard's Bill Stanley rallied to edge Brown's Tim Donovan in A-flight singles, 3-6, 6-1, 7-5 at the Harvard-hosted New England Tournament Saturday. Donovan, the tourney's number-one seed, had defeated second-seeded Stanley twice last season.

Stanley teamed up with Paul Palandjian to bump Donovan and Amin Lourey, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in B-flight doubles action.

The Crimson swept the doubles slate at the 13-team tournament, as Peter Palandjian and Dave Clark (A-flight), Hank Parichabutr and Mark Leschley (C-flight) and John Steinbaugh and Mino Capasello (D-flight) all triumphed. Leschley, a freshman, also took the C-flight singles crown.

The women's squad, meanwhile, traveled to Syracuse, N.Y., to participate in the 16-team Syracuse University Unity Life Tournament.

Harvard's duo of Kristen Bland and Robin Boss copped the B-flight doubles crown, but the combo of Kathy Vigna and Martha Berkman placed sixth in A-flight action.

In singles competition, Bland took fourth place in the E-flight singles, while Cyndi Austrian finished fifth in the F-flight event.

Sailing

The Harvard varsity sailing team finished in third place at the Oberg Trophy Regatta this weekend at MIT.

The Crimson's Gordon Burnes and Peter Schumann tallied 17 points in the A division, Alex Sutton and Trini Yamin racked up 20 points in B division competition, and Paul O' Connor and Liz Seaton added 27 points in the C division.

Meanwhile, Harvard's women's sailing team finished 10 points behind first-place Brown Saturday at the Captain's Cup at Tufts University.

In the A division, Harvard's captain Jane Fogg and Dana Barron accumulated 22 points, while Julia Trotman and Mary Lohnes finished first in the B division with 10 points.