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Harvard posted plenty of offense late in the contest, following a three-run eighth inning with a five-run ninth to nearly tie the game, but the Crimson could not plate the final run as freshman Kyle Larrow struck out swinging with the bases loaded...
Still, Harvard would not fold, despite yielding two more runs in the seventh. After a single and a pair of walks loaded the bases in the top of the eighth, sophomore Brent Suter grounded into a fielder’s choice, scoring O’Hara. Junior Sam Franklin then notched a two-out RBI single to right field, which quickly netted a second run on John Spatola’s throwing error...
Neither team recorded a hit in the seventh, but O’Neill led off the eighth for Harvard with a single through the left side. After O’Hara was intentionally walked and Way struck out, Reynolds continued his clutch performance with a two-out, two-RBI single to right that scored O’Neill and O’Hara, and gave the Crimson a 13-10 lead heading into the bottom of the inning...
...Huskies had a response of their own, picking up two runs in the bottom of the eighth. Freshman Logan Gillis doubled down the leftfield line off Way, scoring two and putting Northeastern down by only a run as the teams headed into the ninth. Harvard was unable to pick up an insurance run, stranding two on base. But sophomore Conner Hulse was able to hold off a Northeastern rally, stranding two baserunners and getting the save to conclude the wild affair. Way earned the win with 2.2 innings of relief...
...eighth and ninth innings proved to be more of the same defensive struggle, with each team notching only one single each over the two innings. Whether Harvard was ready to go home or because it had finally figured out Friars’ pitcher Alicia Grosso, the Crimson finally let it loose in the top of the 10th...