'Cliffe Spikers Sweep Tourney

The Harvard women's volleyball team swept its way to the Region I Provisional Championship at a six-team round-robin tournament at Holyoke Saturday.

The tournament, which was for schools competing in woman's volleyball for the first time this year, is the fourth the spikers have won in five outings.

Nine Games

During the tournament, the team remained undeafeated through nine straight games, winning its playoff match with the Waterbury YMCA, 15-8 and 15-6.

Co-captain Ruth Tringham and Dells Flores both said yesterday that the team had expected to win the tournament. "Since we beat the regular teams, we expected to beat the very new teams." Tringham said.

Flores said that the other teams played "a sloppy sort of volleyball."

"We had six hitters on our team instead of a gang just bumping the ball around," she said.

Flores also said she thought it was "unfair" that Radcliffe had to play in the first-year tournament since the team has defeated all the others entering the regular regional tournament.

The spikers will play their last tournament this season June 1 at Waterbury.