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...Kristin Del Calvo walked, putting Whitton in a first-and-third, one-out jam with Princeton clean-up hitter Kim Veenstra at the plate. Lueke scored on a wild pitch and freshman catcher Laura Miller threw the ball away on the play, allowing Del Calvo’s pinch runner to advance all the way to third. She scored on a deep Veenstra sacrifice...
...first Harvard lead came on Whitton’s two-run single in the third, set up by the freshmen Sabin and Stefanchik. Sabin led off the inning with a double and pinch runner Louisa Canham advanced to third on a Goldberg sacrifice. Stefanchik reached base easily on a grounder as the Princeton fielder had to look Canham back to third. Stefanchik stole second with ease, leaving the meat of the order with two runners in scoring position...
Last week, in the late innings of a close game, with a runner on third and the count full, I stepped back into the batter’s box and stared straight ahead at the pitcher. My fingers flexed nervously around the handle of the bat and my stomach churned over the words of a lonely, scary thought: it’s all riding on you. I swallowed once and then once more, and for a second I felt like a real athlete again. But then the pitch came in underhand, and very, very slow, and the spirit...
...Tiff was bunting because we needed to have a runner on third for a shot to win,” Allard explained. “You get a runner on third, you just need a little ground ball, a passed ball, Koppel hits a fly ball, we score. In that situation it’s always a debate what to do. We’ve gone back and forth, sometimes we bunt, sometimes...
Watanabe fielded the ball and threw a rope to get the runner at home—the Crimson’s third successful play at the plate on the day. Then, freshman catcher Laura Miller had the presence of mind to get Wheeler heading for to second for a spectacular 9-2-4 inning-ending double play...