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...Eagles' success was starting pitcher Paul Knapic. Despite a shaky start, including three straight walks in the first inning, Knapic effectively neutralized the Crimson lineup with a good combination of off-speed pitches and high heat. Working quickly from the windup, the righthander pitched smartly to avoid bad situations. He threw seven strong innings, striking out a career-high nine while giving up only five hits and one earned run to improve his record...
Things quieted down over the next several innings as a pitchers' duel ensued between Knapic and the Crimson's pitcher-by-committee. In the seventh, B.C. third baseman Eric Olson put reliever Dan Saken's low-and outside offering over the fence in right-center field to put the Eagles up for good. They added an insurance run in the eighth off a wild pitch...
With two away and Lentz on third, the Crimson had a chance to win in regulation, but McCreery (3-1), the eventual losing pitcher, would force Harvard to wait, fanning the final Crimson batter...
Thoke, a power pitcher with the potential to take over a game, has struggled recently but appeared to regain her form on Saturday, baffling hitters with a combination of fastballs and off-speed pitches...
...idea of a long novel about horses and horse racing has all the appeal of an afternoon at a seedy OTB outpost, read on. For Jane Smiley's Horse Heaven (Knopf; 561 pages; $26) turns out to go down quite easily--more like a pitcher of mint juleps at the Kentucky Derby. Smiley, who has already given us an epic about Greenland, an academic comedy set in the Midwest and historical fiction about abolition, has as great a range and as much intellectual curiosity as any novelist writing today. In her latest book, she takes on a fresh topic...