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...ended the Crimson's Greater Boston League season with an unblemished 7-0 record and the league's championship. Harvard placed five men on the GBL all-star team: Pete Varney was named the league's most valuable player. Vince McGugan, Dan DeMichele, Art Serrano, and Crimson pitcher J. C. Nickens were the other players...
Without its hitting attack. Harvard tried to use its speed to score in the fourth and fifth. Varney singled in the fourth with only one out, but he was caught stealing second by several feet. In the fifth, Mike Thomas doubled down the left field line and headed home on a single to right by Kelly. But the throw from the outfield cut Thomas down easily. Harvard remained conservative on the base paths for the rest of the game...
After two out in the sixth, Harvard got the first, and only, break of the game. DeMichele hit a solid single to center and Varney followed with a drive to the right-center fence. DeMichele held at third, but Witkoski booted the cut-off play from the outfield and DeMichele beat the throw to the plate by a stride...
...game open in the eighth against relief pitcher Rob Nelson. Kelly started the charge with a single to left and advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt by McGugan, a single by Ignacio, and a sacrifice fly by DeMichele. After a talk with coach Ted Throen. Nelson walked Varney intentionally and got Bernard to ground out to first...
Hanging on to just a one-run lead. Harvard showed its nervousness in the ninth. The first batter got a break when Varney dropped a foul pop-up, but the Cornell hitter then lined out to second. Cornell got a second break when Pete Bernhard dropped a routine foul ball and that batter eventually walked...