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Sophomore Ben Crockett and junior John Birtwell combined for 14 strikeouts, and juniors Scot Hopps and Joe Llanes came through with timely RBI pinch-hits as the Harvard baseball team swept a pair from Columbia, 4-2 and 8-7 (11 innings...
...Coach Walsh stresses throwing strikes all the time," Crockett said. "Just let them put the ball in play. When you walk guys, there's no one else who can help you. Penn allowed runners to get on base, allowing us to come up with some big pinch-hits and score some runs...
...million years of evolution, your kitchen-variety cockroach is exquisitely designed for survival. A single female German cockroach (the most prolific of the seven major pest species) generates 35,000 descendants a year on a diet of just about anything: table scraps, toothpaste, glue, hair--even, in a pinch, her young. Such fecundity has evolutionary benefits. The more offspring she produces, the better the chance that one of them will be born resistant to whatever poisons future scientists decide to spray. Today's best roach bait is almost universally fatal, but it's only a matter of time before...
Trailing 5-1 entering the ninth, the Crimson (8-12, 3-1 Ivy) scrapped four runs thanks to walks to tri-captains Jason Larocque and Jeff Bridich, a key pinch-hit double by Scot Hopps, and a muffed grounder by URI first baseman Jason Chamsarian that scored a run. Carmack then took Rams reliever Rudy Bulgar deep to right to tie the game...
Harvard almost didn't need extra innings. Crockett (2-0) was within a strike of burying Princeton 3-2 in seven and had retired nine straight, but Watterson capped a two-out rally with the Tigers' third straight bloop single, scoring pinch runner Mitchell to make...