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Harvard’s starting rightfielder, leadoff batter and newly-named closer—and a former “No. 1 high school baseball player in Michigan,” according to the Detroit Free Press in 2002—Salsgiver is tough as nails. But don’t think, for a second, that he doesn’t enjoy every minute he spends on a baseball field...
Herrmann hit Air Force’s leadoff batter Josh Wolfram to open the frame. Wolfram advanced on a single and a sacrifice fly, then scored on a balk to break up the shoutout...
Brotemarkle would have had to pitch even longer in that Princeton win were it not for a clutch game-winning hit by sophomore leadoff hitter Lauren Stefanchik...
Through 2.2 scoreless innings, Salsgiver did his best stalling act, biding time for a comeback that, unfortunately for Harvard, never came. He allowed just one hit in his stint—a leadoff chopper through the left side by Princeton’s Jon Miller off a 2-2 curve. It was easily one of lesser abuses Miller (5-for-11, 3 RBI) inflicted on Crimson pitching this weekend and it proved altogether harmless once Salsgiver baited Princeton’s next batter, Ryan Eldridge, into a 4-6-3 double-play...
Ronz (3-3) had matched Princeton’s Ryan Quillian (6-4) pitch for pitch through five innings, but got into early trouble in the sixth when he gave up a leadoff single to third baseman Jon Miller and a walk to Eldridge. Two batters later, Salini singled solidly to give the Tigers the lead...