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...knew from watching him take [batting practice] every day that he’s been a pro hitter ever since he showed up at Harvard,” said rising senior pitcher Shawn Haviland...
...baseball, and not offensive explosion,” Walsh said. “I’m always going to feel deep down that that’s what’s going to win us a championship.”And yes, the pitching was solid. Junior Shawn Haviland didn’t have the dominance of his 2006 Ivy Pitcher of the Year campaign, but he still held opposing hitters to a .229 average and turned in several gritty outings on just three days’ rest down the stretch. Freshmen starters Max Perlman and Eric Eadington emerged...
Then a funny thing happened in the second game. Quakers rookie Jim Birmingham threw seven innings of no-hit ball and the team’s leadoff hitter spanked a Shawn Haviland curveball for a three-run dinger to give Penn, which had finished 7-13 in the Ivies for two years running, the split. Haviland, the staff ace and league’s Pitcher of the Year in 2006, allowed twice as many earned runs in that game (six) as he had in all five of his Ivy starts the year before combined...
...leadoff guy on in every inning, but [Wilkerson] did well to work out of jams,” Haviland said...
...After Haviland went all seven innings in the opener, Walsh used an arsenal of hurlers in the nightcap. When freshman Eric Eadington seemed to lack his customary sharpness—Dartmouth loaded the bases in the top of the second on two hit batsmen and a walk—Walsh turned to sophomore Adam Cole, a converted reliever whose power fastball had worked the Crimson out of some late-inning jams in recent weeks...