Batwomen Take Fifth in Ivies

After three days of ups and downs, the Harvard softball team left the Ivy League tournament, held at Brown University Friday, Saturday, and yesterday, with two wins, four losses and fifth place in the Ivy League.

Princeton took Ivy honors with a flawless 6-0 record.

Although the batwomen went to Providence with a 9-4 record, including a record-setting seven-game winning streak earlier in the season and a double-header sweep over Dartmouth--their only Ivy competition before the tourney--they couldn't get going early on, losing a close contest to hosts Brown, 3-1, in action Friday.

The batwomen didn't have any better luck in their second game of the afternoon, as they lost to the eventual champions, 9-1.

The next day had mixed fortunes in store for the Crimson. They came up with 13 hits, including a 4-for-5 outing by third sacker Lisa Rowning, to shut out Cornell 10-0 Freshman hurler Janet Dickerman allowed only three hits in the rout.

Harvard, conquerors early, saw them selves conquered by Yale later in the day Three runs were enough for the Elis as they held the batwomen to a single tally in the fourth.

In a fashion which indicated the varying skill levels of the teams involved, as well as the desire of the teams themselves. Harvard came on to the field at Providence yesterday and immediately established dominance over their earlier victims, Dartmouth.

The batwomen busted out for ten runs in the first inning before they even had a hit. The Crimson got six more in the later innings as they crushed the Big Green, 16-5.

Again, however, the batwomen got a taste of their own medicine in the last game of the tournament when they were iced off by Pennsylania 13-3. Both teams got as many hits as they got runs.