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With Jim Thomas still injured, coach Loyal Park played Larry Barbiaux at the hot corner. Barbiaux was added to the roster along with Barry Cronin shortly after the Thomas injury. Barbiaux, a senior, played as a sophomore, and for the first month of last season at second base before quitting the club...
...Fran Cronin played third against Northeastern last Wednesday, after seeing duty in both left and right field. "I didn't think it was fair to Franny, however, to keep moving him around," Park said. So he started Barbiaux...
...Fran Cronin, who was filling in at third, led off with a walk and Williams followed with a hit and run double that sent Cronin to third. "That was the play that won it," coach Loyal Park said...
Harvard picked up single runs in the fifth and sixth on RBI base hits by Hogan and Cronin to take the lead, but Northeastern forged ahead with three more of their own in the bottom of the sixth off Harrell. Ron Wilson drove in the first on a triple and then scored on Joe Marani's base hit. Marani put the Huskies into the lead as he crossed the plate on a sacrifice fly off the bat of Dave Mudugno. But that was it for Northeastern...
Fortunately, Thomas' departure will not be as permanent as Jim Stoeckel's, the original third baseman, who was ruled ineligible to play by the Ivy League for signing a pro football contract. In the meantime, however, sophomore Fran Cronin will play the bag for Park's 16-6 squad. Cronin has been filling in at left and right field this season, and has been used as a pinch-runner on several occasions...