The Harvard baseball team matched Saturday's dismal weather with some uninspired playing as they barely managed to squeeze a run across in the tenth inning to edge Penn, 5-4, at Splinter Stadium.
The lowly Quakers (now 1-6 in the Eastern League) figured to be no match for the Crimson squad, but several Harvard errors, coupled with severe pitching lapses, made the game close.
It all started well enough. Senior southpaw Jim McCandlish held Penn hitless for the first three innings while his teammates were collecting two tallies off the Quaker hurler, Marc Schoenfield. The big blows for Harvard were two long triples by Dan Hootstein and Pete Karegeannes, each of which would have been inside-the-park home runs except for the muddy outfield grass.
Penn reached McCandlish for a run each in the fourth and fifth innings, as they started to time the slow curves and changeups of the blond Harvard hurler. The Crimson retaliated with two runs in their half of the fourth, driving out Shonefield, and bringing in Dick Shaffer. Singles by Pete Karegeannes, Dick Manchester, McCandlish, and Phil Smith accounted for the two runs, and led to Shoenfield's exit.
McCandlish had gotten to within one out of ending a three-hit game, when two singles and a double brought about his downfall in the ninth. Penn had tied the score at 4-all before Bob Lincoin came in to put out the fire and the game went into extra innings.
It turned out to be just one extra inning, though, as a series of lucky breaks gave Harvard its fifth run in the tenth. Karegeannes walked, and was sacrificed to second by O'Donnell, advanced to third when Manchester was hit by a pitch, and scored on a suicide squeeze bunt by Lincoln.
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