Crimson Dismantles Engineers

With one out in the top half of the first inning of yesterday's Harvard-MIT baseball game, the Engineers' Steve Kosowsky laced a double over the head of centerfielder Charlie Santos-Buch and drove in the game's first three runs. From that moment on, MIT was shut out. Shut out as in blanked; blanked as in zero. Zero runs, zero hits.

And while batters waved at John Sorich fastballs and MIT pitchers scattered horsehide throughout downtown Cambridge, the Engineer "fielders" committed nine errors, helping Harvard coast to a 12-3 victory.

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As an estimated crowd of 14 looked on, Sorich replaced starter Jim Keyte after Kosowsky's double and made his first outing of the year a spectacular one. He pitched seven and two-thirds innings of no-hit ball, fanning eight and walking only two in the process, before Greg Brown came in to hurl a hitless ninth.

Harvard's big bats had another sleepy afternoon, mostly because they couldn't find pitches to hit. Eddie Farrell clouted a long home run in the ninth, knocking in Mark Bingham who had slammed a ground-rule double moments before, but otherwise the Crimson could only slap six singles off errant moundsmen Carl Nowiszcwski, Mark Dewitt and Al Fordiari.

The MIT twirlers combined to keep Harvard third-base coach Jim Stoeckel busy by issuing 12 free passes and helping the runners on their way with a trio of wild pitches.

Once again, the Crimson played a flawless game in the field. Too much cannot be said about the steadiness of infielders Bingham, Bobby Kelley, Brad Bauer and Rick Pearce, who rank with Navy's vaunted foursome as the league's classiest crew.

"I just let the batters hit the ball," Sorich said after the game. "With the fielders we've got that's all I have to do."

Coach Alex Nahigian used the laughter as an opportunity to get some new faces in the lineup. Danny Skaff saw his first action of the campaign when he joined Danny Bowles, Paul Scheper and Billy Blood as defensive replacements in the seventh, and Brown's ninth-inning stint on the mound also served as his introduction to intercollegiate play.

With the exception of Farrell's blast, however, the vets came up with the hits: Kelley tallied three singles and knocked in a run; Bingham added an RBI single to his double; and Pearce and Joe Wark chipped in run-scoring hits to complete the Harvard attack.

THE NOTEBOOK: Nahigian has decided to start Bill Larson (2-1) in this afternoon's home opener against Boston College but said the freshman will "only go five innings." Larson hurled a five-hit, 4-3 victory over Providence College last Saturday... Chuck Marshall, sidelined with a viral infection, dressed but did not play yesterday. He'll be out of action again today but is expected back by the weekend...The sparse crowd included a dozen Harvard supporters. at Cambridge Harvard (12  AB  R  H  BI Kelley, 2b  5  2  3  1 Skaff, 2b  0  0  0  0 Bauer, ss  4  1  0  0 Santos, Buch, cf  3  1  0  0 Bowles, cf  1  0  0  0 Bingham, 1b  4  3  2  2 Farrell, DH  5  1  1  2 Allard If  2  1  0  0 Scheper, If  1  1  0  0 Martelli, rf, c  4  1  0  1 Pearce, 36  3  1  1  1 Wark, c  4  0  1  1 Blood, rf  0  0  0  1 Totals  36  12  8  9 MIT (3)  AB  R  H  BI Souter, 2b  3  0  0  0 Gavenik, ss  2  1  0  0 English, 3b  1  0  0  0 Fordiani, cf, p  3  1  0  0 Noll, dh  2  1  0  0 Preston, 1b  1  0  0  0 Kosowsky, rf  4  0  1  3 Lubink, 3b, ss  3  0  0  0 Williams, 1b  3  0  0  0 Warren, cf  1  0  0  0 Hoffman, If  2  0  0  0 Wilcox, c  3  0  0  0 Totals  28  3  1  3

Harvard  0  0  6  2  0  0  1  1  2-12 MIT  3  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0-3

E--Gaverick, Fordiani (3), Lubiak (3), Williams, Wilcox @B--Kosowsky, Bingham HR--Farrell SB--Bauer, Santos, Buch.   IP  H  R  ER  BB  SO Keyte  1/3  1  3  3  3  0 Sorich (w, 1-0)  72/3  0  0  0  2  8 Brown  1  0  0  0  1  1 Nowiszcwski (L)  4  5  8  1  8  3 Dewitt  3  1  1  0  3  1 Fordiani  2  2  3  2  2  1 Wp--Nowiszcwski (2), Fordiani.

Harvard  0  0  6  2  0  0  1  1  2-12 MIT  3  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0-3

E--Gaverick, Fordiani (3), Lubiak (3), Williams, Wilcox @B--Kosowsky, Bingham HR--Farrell SB--Bauer, Santos, Buch.   IP  H  R  ER  BB  SO Keyte  1/3  1  3  3  3  0 Sorich (w, 1-0)  72/3  0  0  0  2  8 Brown  1  0  0  0  1  1 Nowiszcwski (L)  4  5  8  1  8  3 Dewitt  3  1  1  0  3  1 Fordiani  2  2  3  2  2  1 Wp--Nowiszcwski (2), Fordiani.

E--Gaverick, Fordiani (3), Lubiak (3), Williams, Wilcox @B--Kosowsky, Bingham HR--Farrell SB--Bauer, Santos, Buch.   IP  H  R  ER  BB  SO Keyte  1/3  1  3  3  3  0 Sorich (w, 1-0)  72/3  0  0  0  2  8 Brown  1  0  0  0  1  1 Nowiszcwski (L)  4  5  8  1  8  3 Dewitt  3  1  1  0  3  1 Fordiani  2  2  3  2  2  1 Wp--Nowiszcwski (2), Fordiani.