Word: inning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Holy Cross was looking for revenge yesterday, its search went astray. Defending Ivy League champion Harvard (6-11) opened its home season with a convincing doubleheader sweep of Holy Cross (11-11). The Crimson took the first game 8-0, forcing the mercy rule into effect after the sixth inning, and used a four-run fifth inning to win the second...
Holy Cross had runners at second and third with one out in the top of the second, but Koppel got the Crusaders' Sarah Thomas to fly out to freshman Lisa Watanabe in leftfield before senior second baseman Tara LaSovage snagged Alexis Lyon's line drive to end the inning...
...first game was not as problematic for the Crimson. Behind a nine-strikeout performance by Thoke, Harvard ended the game one inning early by forcing the eight-run mercy rule into effect after the sixth inning...
...only took two batters for Harvard to seal the deal in the bottom of the sixth, and fittingly they were the Crimson's two captains. Abeles led off the inning with a double off the bottom of the fence in center, and Teller drove in her co-captain with a double down the leftfield line to end the game...
...retired 21 of the 26 batters he faced andnever faced more than four men in one inning. Healso struck out each member of the Quaker lineupat least once...