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...with an error, moving Forte to third. Swegan promptly singled, scoring Forte and sending Roche to third. Like clock-work! These two then executed a perfect double steal with Roche scoring and Swegan taking second. The last tally of the inning was made when Swegan scored on an infield out and an error...
However, even without Wallace's twirling, which allowed only two hits, and only five balls beyond the infield, Harvard would probably have won on the strength of its bats alone...
...leadoff man in this inning beat out an infield hit and moved along to second when the next man walked. When the following two batters went down on a strikeout and a pop fly, the pressure was off Wallace, but he suddenly went wild, tired badly, and walked three men in a row, forcing in two runs and leaving the sacks jammed. At this point, Coach Stahl yanked Wallace and called in Norm Wholley. Wholley took his warmup pitches, got the first batter he faced on a routine grounder to short, and the game was over...
Although the two rival moundsmen allowed the same number of hits, six each, a strong infield and Anderson's ability to hear down in a tight spot enabled the Quonset Carrier Aircraft Service Unit to squeeze out of the jams that occurred spasmodically from the first inning...
...decided to end the struggle after the next inning. Leading off in the last of the fourteenth, shortstop Closky reached first when his grounder was thrown wide of first base. Bill Ayres, who had taken over Jim Fava's first base post in the twelfth, also rolled to the infield but reached first on a fielder's choice. As backstop Mel Lackey went down on strikes for the second out, Ayres pilfered second, placing himself in scoring position...