Word: crockett
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Starter Ben Crockett (2-4), struggling through an inconsistent junior season, earned the win with three nearly perfect innings of work. Crockett allowed only a leadoff single and retired that runner on a double play. The righthander struck out three batters while walking none...
...With Crockett scheduled to pitch Sunday against Brown, sophomore Kenon Ronz took over in the fourth. In two innings, Ronz also gave up only a single hit, striking out a batter while walking none...
...Indeed, with all the attention focused on Crockett, Breslow pitched with nothing to lose and ended up outdueling his Harvard counterpart. Breslow, in fact, took a no-hitter into the last of the seventh before a single by Carter finally erased the goose egg in Harvard's hit column...
After spotting Yale the 1-0 run in the first, Crockett settled into a groove and mowed through the Yale lineup over the next four innings. At times, he was every bit as unhittable as Breslow, finishing the afternoon with ten strikeouts. But as the game progressed and Harvard failed to even mount a threat on offense, the prevailing sense was that Crockett's fine effort would be in vain...
Yale touched Crockett for five more runs that expanded the Elis' lead to 5-0. Crockett would be lifted one inning later after loading up the bases with no outs. Two of those runners eventually came in to score before the book finally closed on Crockett. His final line-seven earned runs, 10 hits, and the loss-hardly reflected his strong outing...