Word: shakir
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Senior second baseman Faiz Shakir was thrown out at home plate yesterday while attempting to score from second on a two-out single in the eighth inning. The play, which came at a rare point when the Crimson hit Rice’s Steven Herce hard, effectively ended any hope of a history-making upset as Harvard fell to Rice 8-3 in the opening game of the double-elimination NCAA Regionals...
...Brunswick worked a four-pitch walk off Herce, who had cruised through the game’s first six innings. Sophomore Bryan Hale’s groundout moved Brunswick to second, and freshman Ian Wallace’s double brought him home to cut the deficit to 6-2. Shakir, the next batter, reached first on a catcher’s interference call, and senior Mark Mager singled in another run to make the score...
...taking over a position that had been manned by the great David Forst ’98, Mager played an integral role on a Harvard baseball team that won its third straight Ivy League title and fourth straight Red Rolfe Division crown. As he watched fellow freshman Faiz Shakir knock in the run that clinched a spot in the NCAAs, he had no reason to believe that the triumphs would ever stop coming, that Harvard couldn’t dominate another three seasons and, for all he knew, forever...
There was Mager, batting 6-for-10 and stealing two bases. There was the infield of Mager, Shakir, third baseman Nick Carter and first baseman Josh San Salvador, an all-senior unit that had the best fielding percentage in the Ivy League, erasing the few mistakes the Crimson’s starters made...
...seniors made Saturday possible in the first place. Crockett’s 16-strikeout performance against Brown on three days’ rest will go down as one of the all-time great efforts. Shakir pulled off another bloop single for the ages to make that effort count...