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...that’s not the remarkable part. He tallied an RBI on every single at-bat, despite hitting leadoff...
...very efficient on the mound, she doesn’t waste a lot of pitches, and she tied up [Brown’s] hands a lot. It was great to see.”Perfect through the first five innings, Roberts gave up a leadoff single to Linnea Anderson in the sixth. Anderson was lifted for a pinch runner, who was promptly thrown out by sophomore catcher Hayley Bock.The Bears could do little against Roberts but hit the ball on the ground. Roberts induced 14 groundouts and was backed up by solid infield defense, including gems by Schellberg and Kidder...
...walk a single hitter.Luckily for the Crimson, Yale could do little on offense against Roberts. The Bulldogs didn’t have an extra-base hit all day and didn’t have multiple runners in one inning until the sixth. In the seventh, the leadoff hitter singled, but Roberts got the next three hitters to ground into outs, as Harvard took the third game of the series.“We only got her one run, but that was all she needed,” said captain and second baseman Julia Kidder.HARVARD 5, YALE 2A four-run first...
...over for the fourth, when BC scored three two-out runs to pull away with a 4-0 lead. The Crimson got three of those runs back in the bottom of that inning. Doyle had denied the team any base runners up to that point, but junior shortstop and leadoff hitter Jeff Stoeckel walked and captain second baseman Brendan Byrne followed with a double down the left-field line. Junior center fielder Matt Vance was up next and hit Doyle’s first pitch beyond the trees in left field for a three-run shot, his second...
...called short. “We just talked about stringing some this together, coming out strong, making some adjustments, and putting the pressure on them offensively,” Allard said. The Crusaders only real scoring opportunity came in the top of the fourth when Roberts walked the leadoff hitter. Two outs later, on a well fielded line drive and a strike out, Roberts walked another batter to put runners at first and second. However, the fifth Holy Cross hitter of the inning put the ball down the third base line and was easily thrown out at first...