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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mauling started when Columbia ace Rolando Acosta allowed just one Crimson runner as far as second base in picking up his 20th career win, and it continued when the Lions pounced on three Harvard pitchers for 12 hits and 12 runs in the second game...
...process, he avenged Columbia's critical 3-1 loss to Harvard last year--a game in which a Lion fielding miscue and Crimson slugger Mike Stenhouse's ninth-inning triple put Harvard on top and knocked Columbia out of the league race...
While losing to Acosta was no disgrace, losing the second game certainly was. The Lions, who entered the doubleheader with a .242 team batting average, roughed up starter Jim Keyte for four runs in two-thirds of an inning and reliever Rob Alevizos for six more in the following three innings. The game--and the season, possibly--was over almost before it had started...
...Harvard batsmen managed 14 hits over the seven-inning game, but they all came from the same people (Stenhouse 3-for-4, DH Jim Peccerillo 3-for-4, Charlie Santos-Buch 2-for-4. More importantly, they came at random, isolated moments...
...that about summed it up. Unfortunately, the Crimson can no longer afford "one of these days" in its nine remaining league contests--a loss in any of the nine would make the spring of '79 "one of those seasons." Soldiers Field FIRST GAME COLUMBIA AB R H BI Brown 1b 4 1 1 1 Robertson 2b 3 0 1 0 Biattman 1f 3 0 1 0 Hanewich c 3 1 1 2 Santangelo dh 4 0 0 0 Stukes c 3 1 1 0 Karpicki rf 1 0 1 0 Indof ss 2 1 0 0 Viti...