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...hundred-strong crowd—fixated on junior Tiffany Whitton as she stepped to the plate with two outs—went out of control as the Harvard tri-captain crushed the game’s final pitch over the right-field wall for a 7-4 victory...
...Stefanchik, the nation’s 29th-leading hitter with a .422 average entering the week, had just three RBI to her credit this season, but that only masked her strength at the plate with the bases loaded. Stefanchik knocked Finley out of the game by slapping the first pitch over the right side of the infield to cut the deficit to 4-3 and reload the bases...
...there were softball gods affecting the outcome of Saturday’s game, they were certainly challenging Whitton’s mettle up until the final pitch. Princeton’s Brie Galicinao, the 2001 Ivy Pitcher and Player of the Year, had Whitton’s number on the mound and at the plate. In the first game where Galicinao went the distance, Whitton went 0-for-3 and only reached base when she was beaned in the seventh. In the second game, Galicinao homered off Whitton to tie the game...
Harvard sorely missed the bat of sophomore first baseman Marc Hordon against the Crusaders. Hordon, who leads the team with his .361 average and 22 hits, broke his hand when he was hit by a pitch in the game against Cornell on April 7. The team hopes for his return for the next weekend’s Ivy match-up with Yale...
...like to swing at the first pitch,” Shakir said. “It’s usually a good one to hit. When you’re hitting leadoff or second, you want to take more pitches to get a read on the pitcher...