Word: eibl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plain what the team as a whole has done since that day, but it isn't quite as obvious that it was a series of strong individual performances that powered the Crimson to the GBL, EIBL, and District I crowns...
...Driscoll only came up with three of the finest pitched games in the last few weeks of the season. He blitzed Navy on a 9-0 two-hitter May 12, and then the following Sunday hurled the Crimson to the EIBL crown with a 5-3 pressure-packed win over Princeton. On Memorial Day, Driscoll tossed a 6-0 one-hit gem at a New Hampshire squad that looked like it didn't really belong on the same diamond with the Harvard nine...
...this year's Crimson combine might have the credentials to top the old show. Already Harvard has risen from the ash-heap to scratch and claw its way into the NCAA District I playoffs, and win its fourth-straight EIBL title...
Harvard again has the most glittering record of the playoff participants, with 28 wins against only nine setbacks (11-4 in EIBL and 7-1 in Greater Boston play). Providence, boasting a 17-7 record, is making its seventh playoff appearance in the last ten years although the Friars have never won a trip to the World Series. Darkhorse UNH, has a 15-6 record on the season...
...series for Harvard will be whether the Crimson pitchers, most notably Mike O'Malley and Don Driscoll, will be able to stifle the Providence firepower and shut off the long ball of UNH's Conte. Time and again down the EIBL stretch, Harvard's pitching staff came up with big performances, despite the plethora of doubleheaders during that stretch...