Crimson Nine Sweeps Tigers, 6-0, 7-3

The Harvard baseball team came through a weekend road trip in successful style, raising its record to 16-2 thanks to a 6-0, 7-3 twinbill sweep of Princeton, and no thanks to a 6-3 defeat at the hands of Navy.

Coach Loyal Park, whose bad dreams about last year's nightmarish season seem to be well behind him nowadays, said the Crimson "played one bad inning of baseball all weekend." Unfortunately, that inning was the home half of the fourth at Navy, when the Midshipmen got the four runs that proved instrumental in giving Harvard its second loss of the year.

But who wants to talk about that one inning when your team played the other 25 flawlessly? At Princeton on Saturday a capacity crowd was simultaneously entertained and humbled by two strong Harvard performances.

In the opener, Crimson southpaw Paul McOsker hooked horns with Princeton hurler Mike O'Brien for a scoreless duel that lasted nine innings. But as justice would have it, Harvard came through with six runs in the tenth to take it, 6-0

Justice, you say? Yes indeed. "McOsker pitched one of the top three or four games I've seen since I've been here. He made a mockery out of them," Park said, and the left-handed stringbean's nine strikeouts and only three hits in ten innings certainly back that statement up.

Harvard's runs in the tenth came when 1) Tommy Joyce's fly ball with bases loaded was misplayed by the center fielder to score one run, 2) Rich Trembowicz walked with the bases still loaded, and 3) Rick Pearce hit a two-run single. Trem-bowicz eventually came home on a wild pitch, while Pearce scored the sixth run on a Matt Bingham safety.

As for Princeton, afer McOsker hit the first wo batters he faced (he had four hit batsmen on the day), the Tigers apparently decided that they would wait until the second game of the doubleheader to give Harvard problems. Game of Friday, April 29:   123  456  789  R  H  E HARVARD  000  010  002  3  8  1 NAVY  010  401  10X  6  5  2

Batteries: Stewart (L:4-2), Bannish (6), and Trembowicz. April 30:  123  456  789  10  R  H  E HARVARD  000  000  000  6  6  10  0 PRINCETON  000  000  000  0  0  3  2

Batteries: H-McOsker (W:2-0) and Trembowicz.

P-O'Brien, Chung (10) and Frangos.   123  456  7  R  H  E HARVARD  100  050  1  7  8  0 PRINCETON  201  000  0  3  7  5

Batteries: H-Clifford (W:2-0) and Joyce

P-Zoubeck, Lorentz (5) and Frangos.

Princeton didn't waste any time. Their hitters jumped on Crimspn starter Timmy Clifford for three runs and five hits in the first three innings before he tamed them to only two hits and no runs over the final four frames.

Down 3-1 in the third (Mike Stenhouse had singled in Dave Singleton in the first), the Crimson waited two more innings before they let their speed hotfoot away the game the gave Clifford--on his way to a ten-strikeout performance--the win. They scored firve unearned runs in the fifth and added another in the seventh for the 7-3 triumph.

Batteries: Stewart (L:4-2), Bannish (6), and Trembowicz. April 30:  123  456  789  10  R  H  E HARVARD  000  000  000  6  6  10  0 PRINCETON  000  000  000  0  0  3  2

Batteries: H-McOsker (W:2-0) and Trembowicz.

P-O'Brien, Chung (10) and Frangos.   123  456  7  R  H  E HARVARD  100  050  1  7  8  0 PRINCETON  201  000  0  3  7  5

Batteries: H-Clifford (W:2-0) and Joyce

P-Zoubeck, Lorentz (5) and Frangos.

Princeton didn't waste any time. Their hitters jumped on Crimspn starter Timmy Clifford for three runs and five hits in the first three innings before he tamed them to only two hits and no runs over the final four frames.

Down 3-1 in the third (Mike Stenhouse had singled in Dave Singleton in the first), the Crimson waited two more innings before they let their speed hotfoot away the game the gave Clifford--on his way to a ten-strikeout performance--the win. They scored firve unearned runs in the fifth and added another in the seventh for the 7-3 triumph.

Batteries: H-McOsker (W:2-0) and Trembowicz.

P-O'Brien, Chung (10) and Frangos.   123  456  7  R  H  E HARVARD  100  050  1  7  8  0 PRINCETON  201  000  0  3  7  5

Batteries: H-Clifford (W:2-0) and Joyce

P-Zoubeck, Lorentz (5) and Frangos.

Princeton didn't waste any time. Their hitters jumped on Crimspn starter Timmy Clifford for three runs and five hits in the first three innings before he tamed them to only two hits and no runs over the final four frames.

Down 3-1 in the third (Mike Stenhouse had singled in Dave Singleton in the first), the Crimson waited two more innings before they let their speed hotfoot away the game the gave Clifford--on his way to a ten-strikeout performance--the win. They scored firve unearned runs in the fifth and added another in the seventh for the 7-3 triumph.

Batteries: H-Clifford (W:2-0) and Joyce

P-Zoubeck, Lorentz (5) and Frangos.

Princeton didn't waste any time. Their hitters jumped on Crimspn starter Timmy Clifford for three runs and five hits in the first three innings before he tamed them to only two hits and no runs over the final four frames.

Down 3-1 in the third (Mike Stenhouse had singled in Dave Singleton in the first), the Crimson waited two more innings before they let their speed hotfoot away the game the gave Clifford--on his way to a ten-strikeout performance--the win. They scored firve unearned runs in the fifth and added another in the seventh for the 7-3 triumph.