Word: lead-off
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...varsity threatened to break loose continually against lefthander Bob Turner as the lead-off batter in each of the next four innings reached scoring position with none out, but was stranded. In the eighth inning, however, ten men went to bat, as the team capitalized on five hits, two bases on balls, and one M.I.T. error for a decisive six runs...
After John Simourian had lined a lead-off single to left to open the home ninth, clean-up hitter Bob Hastings, tied for the team lead in runs batted in, came to the plate. Hastings had previously flied to deep center in the first, and blasted a 400-foot homer over the center fielder's head in the sixth. Hastings, though, was ordered to bunt, and successfully sacrificed Simourian to third...
...their last encounter, the relay determined the winner. But this time, the pressure was on Dartmouth; it had to win to tie. However, the Crimson's Bob Weil opened up a 20-yard lead on his lead-off lead; Jim Cairns, French Anderson, and anchorman Dick Wharton all increased the lead to win going away...
...start of the one-mile relay, lead-off man Bill Morris gave second man Jim Cairns a 20-yard lead, which he, Mike Robertson, and French Anderson added to, winning going away...
Rightfielder Matt Botsford will carry a .400 average into today's game, and lead-off man Dick Hoffman is close behind at .389. First baseman John Simourian is third with a .333 average. Hoffman, the left fielder, and Botsford are tied for the lead in hits with 14, and Hoffman leads in stolen bases with six. Current Eastern League Standings Harvard 2-0 Columbia 2-2 Yale 2-0 Army 1-2 Brown 2-1 Navy 1-2 Dartmouth 2-1 Penn 1-3 Princeton 1-1 Cornell...