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Minutes before the celebration began, however, the Tigers held a two-run lead and were two outs away from starting a new era in Ivy baseball. But the Crimson dynasty remained intact when a succession of ground balls and Texas Leaguers in the top of the ninth culminated in a two-run single by freshman designated hitter Faiz Shakir, who gave Harvard the tying and winning runs...
Harvard's three-run ninth in Game Three was theonly successful final-inning comeback of theseries. The Tigers forced the rubber match bystaving off a three-run Crimson rally in thebottom of the ninth to win Game Two, 7-6. Harvardheld on to win Game One, 8-7, despite giving uptwo Princeton runs in the last half-inning...
Things were not looking good for the Crimsonheading into the ninth inning. Boran's homer tocenter field in the bottom of the seventh gave theTigers a 4-2 lead. Senior second baseman PeterWoodfork died on first in the next half-inningafter his third hit of the game when senior centerfielder Andrew Huling grounded out to Tiger secondbaseman Jay Mitchell. Harvard had three outs toget two runs and seven batters would have theirchance before its two best hitters-Woodfork (.396)and Huling (.411)-would hit again...
...biggest defensive play of the series cameafter Tiger freshman left fielder Ryan Achterbergled off the bottom of the ninth by bouncing agrounder under Mager's outstretched glove. Withthe tying run on first, Walsh called a defensiveplay--"43"--on the second pitch to the nextbatter, sophomore pinch hitter, Casey Hildreth,who represented the winning run and had tried tobunt the first pitch...
Harvard's finishes of fourth and fifth in the last two races gave it the win thanks to MIT's ninth-and second-place finishes...