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...homerun of the year. Murphy, and then junior Bailey Vertovez, drew walks to put runners on first and second. A fielder’s choice, a wild pitch, and another base on balls, brought Bock to the plate with the bases loaded. Bock came through once again with a clutch 2 RBI double that brought Vertovez and Henderson home. Sophomore Jen Francis connected for a ground out to second that was enough to bring freshman Ellen Macadam across the plate. With two outs sophomore Jessica Pledger cracked an RBI single that finished off the Crimson’s scoring. Although...
...singles lineup. Saturday’s match against reigning league champion Columbia (7-5, 2-1), by contrast, was about as close as a match can be. Harvard beat the Lions on the strength of the bottom of its lineup, sealing its 4-3 victory with a clutch three-set win by freshman Alexei Chijoff-Evans.In Saturday’s win, Harvard reaped the fruit of a grueling early-season schedule: the freshmen showed enough maturity to carry Harvard to the finish line on a day when the more experienced players at the top of the lineup came up short.HARVARD...
...many one-run games recently, the pitching is less the concern than the hitting, and though finding success at the plate with runners-on-base often come down to timing and luck, the Crimson knows that winning simply will not come unless its hitters deliver in these clutch situations. For the team to embark upon its first winning streak of the season, a successful turn-around may rely more on small-ball fundamentals than the return of big bats to the lineup.“We need the bottom of the lineup to step up and play well when...
...fittingly on the last day of their collegiate volleyball careers. “It was a very emotional game,” sophomore Erik Kuld said. “We really wanted to come out and win all three.” Sophomore Soren Rosier came through in the clutch in the first game. Slamming down two well-timed kills, Rosier gave Harvard its first lead of the match, boosting the score, 26-25. Rosier recorded seven kills over the course of the night. The Crimson had been trailing from the beginning of the first frame. Harvard closed...
...scoring was back-and-forth, but eventually Harvard came out on top, 14-13, in large part due to a clutch effort by Halpern...