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Crockett (6-3), who has long been the staff’s ace and workhorse, pitched a nine-inning, 137-pitch gem on his way to sixteen strikeouts. It would amount to a fairly average outing for Crockett, the Ivy co-Pitcher of the Year, except that he had thrown 125 pitches in a season-saving victory over Dartmouth just four days earlier...
...unclear when the decision was made, but somewhere along the line, Coach Walsh decided to “throw the pitch count away” and rely on his superstar senior pitcher. In almost all of Harvard’s must-win situations down the stretch, Crockett has been on the mound...
Answer: There’s no way to know for sure, but probably not. While much of Harvard’s pitching staff has struggled as of late, Crockett is the team’s only sure thing. He is the best pitcher in the Ivy League and probably the league’s Most Valuable Player. He leads Harvard with 108 strikeouts this season. Justin Nyweide is second with 52, less than half of Crockett’s total...
Meanwhile, Princeton’s Ryan Quillian’s junior year has not quite lived up to his sparkling 2001 Ivy Pitcher of the Year campaign. He is 2-4 with an ERA above 5.00, and Harvard beat him in the game Nyweide started en route to two-game sweep. Although he was stellar in his Lou Gehrig Division-clinching win over Cornell last weekend, he and the Tigers’ other starters are beatable. Solid, but certainly not invincible...
Joining them are sophomore Kim Koral, who batted second for most of the season and, after a slow start, upped her average to near the .300 level; sophomore shortstop Rachel Goldberg, who was third on the team in both OBP and slugging; and sophomore pitcher Kara Brotemarkle, who led the team...