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...mound matchups look to be Penn's Bruce Ballard vs. Steve Baloff (3-0) in the first game, and Leonard vs. either Timmy Clifford (2-0) or lefty Paul McOsker (1-1) in the wrap-up. The bet is that Clifford will get the start because of his inspiring six-hit shutout of Northeastern on Tuesday and due to Penn's largely righty line...
Even before he made his '78 northern debut in yesterday afternoon's Greater Boston League tilt against the Northeastern Huskies, Harvard's junior hurler Tim Clifford knew how to keep things in check. Clifford works as a security guard at the Radcliffe Quad, so it was really no surprise that when he took the mound, the Huskies acted as if their bats had been locked in the dugout...
Handcuffing the visitors from Huntington Ave. on just six hits--five of them singles and none of them coming after the fifth inning--Clifford pitched the Crimson to its 13th, his second triumph, a 4-0 victory. His biggest scare came in that fifth frame, when Northeastern had runners on first and third with two outs, but alas, it proved to be nothing more than a false alarm. The next batter, you see, flied to right...
...While Clifford was treating the Huskies with the respect one might accord the Seattle Mariners, Harvard, oddly enough, was registering single tallies in innings one, three, five and seven. In each of the initial three instances, it was the alertness of sophomore centerfielder Charlie Santos-Buch and tainted Northeastern fielding that produced an unearned...
...that time, though, Clifford was in such control of the game that the few people who had made the trek to Soldiers Field on an afternoon any reputable sports announcer would have termed "just a beautiful day for baseball" were tuning in the final innings of the Red Sox-Milwaukee contest on their handy-dandy transistors and tuning out the action in front of them...