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...keep boys from reaching first base. Brownell--the lone girl in her upstate New York Little League program--pitched the first perfect game in the history of the league, on May 14. The young hurler struck out all 18 batters, leading her team, the Dodgers, to a six-inning, 11-0 victory over the Yankees in Oakfield, N.Y. The shy sixth-grader, who honed her skills playing with her two elder brothers, also boasts a .714 batting average. Sometimes during the season, her mother told reporters, Brownell's teammates teased her, saying she should have stuck to softball like...
...though junior Zak Farkes slapped a single through the right side of the infield two batters later to reclaim the lead and captain Schuyler Mann belted a towering three-run shot into the ivy in left centerfield with two outs in the eighth inning to secure Harvard’s 8-5 victory, Walsh was anything but satisfied with his club’s attitude entering finals period...
Salsgiver knocked in Matt Vance in the second, courtesy of an infield single to extend the Crimson’s lead to 4-1. Quinnipiac inched within two in the fourth inning, but finally pulled even in the sixth, thanks to three singles off newly inserted hurler Javi Castellanos and a fielding error by Klimkiewicz at first, which cut the deficit to just one and loaded the bases...
After allowing the tying run via sacrifice fly to Rick Coppola, Castellanos fanned the next two to escape the inning, before Farkes staked Harvard to a 5-4 lead in the bottom half of the frame on an RBI ground ball through the right side of the infield...
...left five runners on up until that point, so I was definitely looking to keep the inning alive and get a pitch to drive in the gap,” Mann said. “But he hung a curveball to me, right in the wheelhouse, left it up, and I got under it just enough...