Word: varney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson manhandled four Brown pitchers in the twin bill, collecting 18 hits, including three homers, two triples, and three doubles. Left fielder Dan DeMichele led the assault. cracking five hits in two games. But it was the slugging of big Pete Varney. who accounted for two homers, that had the stands buzzing...
Brown was ahead 7-6 in the first game when Varney stepped to the plate. Bob Flanders, the Bruins' pitcher delivered a curve that hung a little too high, and the next order of business was to try and find the ball...
...Harvard defense had proved to be its own worse enemy in the second inning as an error permitted two Bruins to cross the plate. But the Crimson came back for five runs in the fourth, aided by four walks by Flanders. Varney's shot tied itin the sixth, and DeMichele knocked in what proved to be the winning run with a double in the eighth...
DeMichele got the machine rolling in the first inning of the second game by blasting a two-run homer off Brown starter Fred Armenti. The Crimson chased Armenti with a four-run splurge in the third. Varney was the Bruin nemesis again as he hit his second homer...
...Crimson broke its scoring drought (four runs in three games) on Wednesday when it slammed out 11 hits against M.I.T. in a 9-1 triumph. Pete Varney and Dan DeMichele, who had been in temporary hitting slumps, each collected two hits...