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...fourth of the season. It was also in the third that co-captain Bailey Vertovez made an impressive diving catch while running with her back towards the ball, one of her many amazing catches of the day. The field provided great support for junior Dana Roberts, who pitched 4 1/3 scoreless innings and earned her third win of the season. “Whitney’s homer fired us up, and I think Bailey played an amazing shortstop today,” freshman pitcher Rachel Brown said. “She made some huge plays...
...After sophomore Emily Henderson was hit by a pitch in the first inning, rookie Whitney Shaw launched a shot to right-center to give Harvard a 2-0 lead...
...Northeastern, 8-5, in opening-round play.Harvard hopes to keep its bats going tomorrow after a 60-hit weekend, six of which left the yard against Cornell and Princeton.“[We] will take a good approach at the plate, look to drive the ball, look for good pitches to hit, and take advantage of hitters’ counts,” Douglas said.In last year’s Beanpot game against the Huskies, Rogers, Douglas, then-junior Taylor Meehan, and then-freshmen Sean O’Hara and Dillon O’Neill all had multi-hit games.The...
...while away the boredom, a few exiled young Afghans began picking up cricket from Pakistanis. Abid was among them, and an unlikely source of national pride was born. Smashed concrete is all that remains of the Kacha Gari pitch now, and the boundary is marked only by lumps of piled-up dirt. But to many Afghans, it is a deeply moving place. On a recent return visit, Abid knelt down, kissed the ground and said, as if still astonished, "I started cricket here...
...four finish in Johannesburg will see them go through to the main event, due to be held in various cities across South Asia in 2011. It would also crown an astonishing rise. Seven years ago, in a country defined by conflict, and which does not have a proper grass pitch even today, there was no national team. But three tournament wins in the past year, comprising 15 victories in 17 matches, have brought Afghanistan to the brink of an appearance among the world's best. At home, they are national heroes. (See pictures of the deadly attack on Sri Lankan...