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With junior slugger Trey Hendricks watching from the sidelines with a knee injury, the Crimson scored four runs in the ninth inning to overcome a two-run deficit, defeating UMass 8-7 yesterday afternoon at Fenway Park. Harvard (13-17, 6-6 Ivy) will play Boston College today at 5 p.m. for the Beanpot championship. B.C. beat Northeastern 13-7 in yesterday’s second game, and the Crimson is still stinging from a 24-6 loss at the hands of the Eagles last week...
...Crimson entered the top of the ninth inning of yesterday’s Beanpot opener trailing the Minutemen 6-4, with UMass closer Scott Ratliff on the mound. Although Ratliff entered the game with a 1.69 ERA, each of the first three hitters in Harvard’s lineup reached base, bringing the cleanup hitter to the plate. But instead of Hendricks—the normal cleanup hitter and team-leader in batting average, home runs and runs batted in—sophomore catcher Schuyler Mann stepped into the box with no outs and the bases loaded...
Shooting a ball to left-center, Mann singled, scoring junior Bryan Hale from third and cutting the UMass lead to one. It was one of four RBIs for Mann on the day. With the bases still loaded, freshman Josh Klimkiewicz hit a sacrifice fly to center to tie the game...
Just as it did in its loss earlier in the week to UMass, the Crimson outperformed its opponent in faceoffs and ground balls, but could not capture the win. Harvard won 16-of-21 faceoffs and picked up 26-of-43 ground balls...
After the Minutemen made the score 6-4, Harvard continued the see-saw battle as Kane took a pass from Gottschall and scored his second goal of the game to cut the deficit to 6-5. However, the Crimson would get no closer, as UMass proceeded to make its run and pull away...