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...outs and a runner on first in the bottom of the ninth inning of the deciding game of the Ivy League baseball championship series last Sunday, Princeton freshman shortstop Pat Boran stepped to the plate representing the winning run. He had homered in his last at-bat, and another monster shot over the center field wall would give the Tigers a 6-5 victory and the Ivy championship...
...Doom. Rather than annihilating demons with an arsenal of firepower, kids manipulate a group of cloyingly cute critters whose primary form of battle is a glorified version of rock, paper, scissors. There are no guns, no blood--no one even dies. Players choose a starter Pokemon (short for pocket monster), then nurture and train it to battle other monsters using such "weapons" as water, fire and electricity. After defeating a foe, the original monster becomes more powerful. The aim is to become a "master trainer" by vanquishing all 150 challengers...
...Bridich, however, the reigning Ivy League Player of the Week, who supplied the big blow that juiced the Crimson up, driving a fat fastball from Samolewicz over the Green Monster in the third for a 6-4 lead...
Gorneault also cranked a two-run home run over the Green Monster in the top of the ninth off Harvard reliever Derek Lennon for what proved to be the winning runs. Braunstein had hit a two-run job off starter Dan Saken in the third...
...Bridich, however, the reigning Ivy League Player of the Week, who supplied the big blow that juiced the Crimson up, driving a fat fastball from Samolewicz over the Green Monster in the third for a 6-4 lead...