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Harvard's hitters iced the contest early by scoring a run in each of the first four innings. After second baseman Dick Manchester had singled home John Ignacio in the first, leadoff man Jeff Grate rammed a triple to drive home Peters in the next inning...
...lucked out in the third on a succession of weak rollers. Batting leadoff in the desperately rearranged Boston lineup. Joe Foy singled. Mike Andrews sacrificed him over to second and made it safe to first on an error. But then Yastrzemski whiffed...
They weren't loaded for long, however, as Phil Smith, the Crimson leadoff hitter, drilled a base hit up the middle scoring O'Donnell and Manchester with what turned out to be the winning allies...
...fast, skilled, but equally depthless Lions get off to an early lead it will be all over for the Crimson. But if someone like Scott Robertson were to break away for a leadoff goal for Harvard, the Cantabridgians would forget about their troubles and their changing systems and wallop Columbia...
...Yale's leadoff batter hit a routine grounder, but Jim Tobin's had throw to first opened the floodgates. Three consecutive singles, a walk, a squeeze bunt, and finally a back-breaking two-run single by the number eight Eli hitter produced five Yale runs...