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Brown came within one pitch of his materpiece going 1-2 on Jerry Smith with two outs in the seventh before building the suspense by losing him with three straight balls. But he didn't have to wait long. Two pitches later, Gib Cater slapped a hard grounder up the middle which Brown speared and flipped to first to end the ballgame...
...Crimson didn't even need the unearned runs Lion shortstop Mike DiChiaro gave them with two errors on the same grounder in the bottom of the inning, as Larson mowed down Columbia in order the rest of the way to even Harvard's EIBL and overall records...
Instead, plays like Paul Chicarello's eighth-inning grounder to first sent the runners around. With Martelli (who had walked and stolen second) on base. Chicarello slapped a three-hopper to Nowiszewski that moved Martelli to third. It also moved him back onto the visitor's bench (no dugouts at MIT), because Nowiszewski spied a friend standing across the street and gave him a wave of the hand while he was making the putout. At least, it looked that way--the ball careened away: Chicarello scampered to third...
Chico came around with Harvard's final tally a moment later when Souter rocketed Chuck Marshall's grounder past third base. Noll could only shake his head...
Harvard's solid fielding (one error on the afternoon: Princeton committed six) helped Brown out of a couple of jams. The Crimson could have fallen behind early when third baseman Paul Chicarello muffed a hot grounder with two runners on in the first to load the bases, but a nifty Bauer-to-Gaylord Lyman-to-Vinnie Martelli twin killing doused the rally...