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...final exam set in two days.A few hours into the night, as refrains of Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” coursed through the red-clad crowd in the eighth inning, I glanced up and noticed a zero on the scoreboard. Boston starting pitcher Jon Lester was working on a no-hitter, and I knew what was to come—the Sox would not let me leave town without one last shot to the gut. As my camera’s battery wore down (no-hitters are something to be remembered...
...bottom of the seventh when sophomore Melissa Schellberg started off the inning with a double to center. Kerper knocked her in with a sacrifice fly to right. Unable to recover from a four-run deficit in the opening inning, the Crimson’s offense was quieted by Tiger pitcher Kristen Schaus, who struck out eight Harvard batters while walking none. Both teams’ pitchers threw a complete game. In her final appearance in a Crimson uniform, Madick sat down six and gave up eight hits, four of which came in the first inning.Madick ended her fourth and final...
...refused to accept its fate.Down 8-2 in the top of the ninth inning, shoddy Dartmouth pitching and defense combined with timely Crimson hits to bring Harvard back into the game, as the team strung together eight runs in the frame to steal the game from the Big Green.Dartmouth pitcher Bobby Steinsdoerfer failed to find the strike zone on a consistent basis, and when he did the Crimson had his number. A walk, two wild pitches, a pair of hit batters, and five Harvard hits led to six runs, as the Crimson chased Steinsdoerfer.Reliever Kyle Zeis did not fare much...
...stole second. Sophomore Lauren Murphy connected for a single that brought Macadam home. The next batter, sophomore Jen Francis, followed that up with a third straight hit, a double to center that scored Murphy. Dartmouth, who had just two hits in the first five innings against sophomore and starting pitcher Dana Roberts, found its rhythm in the sixth. The Big Green used a leadoff walk followed by a double, to jump-start a four-hit, four-run inning.Harvard’s response to the Dartmouth surge was a one-run bottom half of the sixth that left the Crimson...
...always, Harvard will look to its duo of senior starters, Shawn Haviland and Brad Unger, to keep its opponent off the scoreboard. Last weekend against Brown, each pitcher recorded a complete game victory to lead the Crimson to the weekend sweep...