Word: baseman
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Like all no-hitters, this one was helped by extraordinary fielding. Donnie Allard ranged deep into the right center field gap to corral a Joel Mock smash in the fourth, and third baseman Danny Skaff made a nifts play on a sharp grounder to nail Pete Shutte an inning later. And Brown's play that ended the game ("I grabbed it off my chest") could have easily bounced through...
...again, this time with that most coveted baseball contradiction: a team of young veterans. Only Ace Pitcher Steve Rogers remains from the 1973 roster, and most of the team (average age 27) has undergone its trial by fire in the big leagues, not down on the farm. Says First Baseman Warren Cromartie, the blithe spirit who plays team cheerleader: "Logic tells us that this is supposed to be our year. We've been maturing, just like a wine...
...First baseman Martelli led the 13-hit Harvard attack, solving Lion Doug Softy for a double and two singles, and knocking in a pair of runs. He also scored the eventual game-winner when designated hitter Paul Chicarello rapped a two-out single in the fifth. Chicarello was gunned down trying for a double (one of four Crimson runners snipered from the basepaths on the day) but not until his blow had plated Martelli from second to give the batsmen a 4-0 lead...
...That was undoubtably a turning point right there," Harvard coach Alex Nahigian said after the game. And when Larson and second baseman Gaylord Lyman finally connected on their much-practiced pickoff play moments later, trapping Pete Rappa off second for the final out, Columbia's most dangerous rally was extinguished...
Upon learning that first baseman Marlene Schoofs would miss the first day of next weekend's Ivy League tournament because she has to fly to California for a Rotary Scholarship interview, Morris couldn't have been happier. Apparently forgetting that Schoofs took home All-Ivy honors last spring, he said, "Isn't that great? Do you know how tough it is to reach the interview stage...