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With leading Ivy League Player of the Year candidate Nick Santomauro coming to bat for Dartmouth, Harvard baseball coach Joe Walsh knew he needed to play the percentages.It wasn’t an easy call. After all, his starter—freshman ace Conner Hulse—had handed him a gem, striking out six over 8 1/3 innings against the Rolfe Division champion Big Green.But with one out in the ninth inning of the last league game of the season for the Crimson, Walsh wanted the lefty-lefty matchup against Santomauro, bringing in rookie Will Keuper to face...
...Crimson nonetheless had its own opportunities to score.Its best attempt came at the bottom of the second when a fielding error by a Dartmouth outfielder allowed freshman first baseman Whitney Shaw to reach second. Following a hit up the middle from junior outfielder Jen Francis and with Harvard coach Jenny Allard furiously winding her arm to indicate she should continue running, Shaw dove for home plate and was just narrowly tagged out to end the frame.The Big Green managed to score three more times—twice in the third inning and once in the sixth—to augment...
...League Championships at Atlantic City Country Club in Northfield, N.J., where the Crimson held off a final-round charge by Yale to win by two strokes and claim the league title for the second year in a row.“Yale played fantastic today,” Harvard coach Kevin Rhoads said. “It did end up getting really close, but we did our job.”Four Crimson golfers made it into the top-10, led by third-place individual finisher junior Claire Sheldon, who shot a third-round 75 to finish nine-over...
...really important, critical growth point for the team,” Harvard coach Erik Farrar said. “It’s a young team. It’s a continuing process of learning how to win...Winning this game, you not only want to win it for your seniors, but you’re in your home pool...
...inning—including two home runs—as Dartmouth sent 12 hitters to the plate and effectively put the game out of reach before it began.“We’ve had some of these big innings that have crushed us,” Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. “I’ve been trying to say to guys we have to slow the games down during those innings.”Walsh’s observations have held true for much of the season. In three of the squad?...