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Byrne completes his captaincy as the team’s leading hitter with a .342 average, ranking just ahead of Vance’s .341 mark. Vance leads the team with 30 runs batted in, compared to Byrne in second place with...
Harvard trailed 7-5 entering the top of the sixth before bringing home five runs in the frame. Freshman center fielder Stephanie Krysiak got it started with a triple down the left field line. Fellow freshman and designated hitter Lauren Murphy was then intentionally walked, the fifth of sixth times she would receive that treatment during the two games. Sophomore Bailey Vertovez pinch ran for her, and captain second baseman Julia Kidder was up next and scored Krysiak with a bunt base...
Madick had pitched a shut out in Harvard’s 2-0 home win over the Big Green on Saturday and was blanking the team again through the first five innings while holding a 1-0 lead. But Dartmouth designated hitter Kelly Fry hit an RBI triple with one out to tie the score...
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...
...most likely candidate to claim Player of the Year honors, Ryan Lavarnway, is a sophomore slugger for Yale. The league’s fourth-leading hitter is Dartmouth frosh Nick Santomauro. A prospect that Walsh coveted from the Class of 2011 is headed to Columbia next season and “[he has] never lost to Columbia on a recruit...