Word: shortstops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Riding sophomore Billy Doyle's best performance of the season the rest of the way, the Crimson took a 3-1 decision to end the campaign with a 17-14 overall record. With Doyle's curve--missing in action for most of the spring--keeping Cornell off balance, and shortstop Bauer ranging far into left field for a game-saving grab with two out in the sixth. Harvard ended a disappointing reign as EIBL champs with a one-game winning streak...
Friday, Army's Ted Brudvig seven-hit Harvard, allowing a three-run homer by Bauer and little else. The round-tripper, a fifth-inning shot that scored Scheper and Bruce Weller for the Crimson's only runs, was the shortstop's third of the year. He led the squad with four last season. at Army Harvard 000 030 000--3 Army...
...left-handed shortstop steps up to the plate. It's a tie ball game--two-all in the fifth--and the infielders shout encouragement to the pitcher and heckle the diminutive hitter. Cheers resound from the batter's bench--"Come on Dr. longball, hit another homer. "The infield, hearing this, takes a few steps back. The pitch: a swing. it's a hit, not a crackling liner that sends the second baseman diving. But rather a dainty dribbler that leaves the third baseman stymied in her shoes as the softball slowly scoots along the third base line and comes...
Praise comes about as often as line drives to shortstop for this senior spark plug. "When I first met her I thought no way--a left-handed shortstop. Consequently, I put her in center-field--never again--she was meant to be a shortstop" Coach Kit Morris says...
Bernstein explains why she took the shortstop position. "I can't play first base, the usual lefty position, because of my height, and I can't throw far or well--only fast--so I decided to play shortstop. Besides, I'm too hyper for the outfield and I'm not a preppie"--gently ribbing her friend and co-captain Betty Ippolito who along with the other outfielders went to private school...