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Rarely does a softball game end with the cleanup hitter doubled over after getting beaned with a fastball in the gut, but that’s what happened to tri-captain Sarah Koppel in the 4-3 defeat...
...when the very next hitter, Jim Mullen, homered to left, the Harvard baseball team’s 10-4 lead was cut by two. Then, on the very next pitch from Crimson reliever Kenon Ronz, Penn’s All-Ivy second baseman Nick Italiano jacked a shot over the right field fence...
Both players also appeared in the lineup even when they weren’t catching—Mann as the designated hitter and Kropf at first base. While Kropf’s hot bat has been silenced over the past week (two hits in his last 18 at-bats), Mann provided a definite spark at the plate over the weekend. He went 2-for-4 with two RBI in the weekend opener and had two more hits—including a solo homer—in yesterday’s 10-6 win against the Lions...
Hordon—who broke his left hand last weekend at Cornell after getting hit by a pitch—may be ready to return next weekend at Yale. With a .361 average in 61 at-bats, Hordon is Harvard’s leading hitter. He is also one of Harvard’s better starting pitchers, and would have started Game Two yesterday had he been healthy. Sheffield got the ball instead...
...McCreery helped his cause once again in the top of the sixth with a two-out single, and raced home on a double by cleanup hitter Bryan Graves...