"We coulda gotten that guy [Dennis]," coach Loyal Park said yesterday. "I'm not a crybaby, but coming back we would have had him. What happened out there was inexcusable."
St. John's Slaughter
Thursday's game left no room for controversy. Redman righty Steve Bingham kept the Crimson at bay by booting the ball around and giving up six runs--five unearned--in the seventh and eight innings.
Starter Ron Stewart pitched adequately, but he failed to get the necessary support at the plate. Bingham fanned with Stenhouse on second and two down in the sixth. Stenhouse and Bingham, Harvard's leading hitters on the year, batted a combined 0-for-11 for the tourney.
Rick Pearce and Chuck Marshall bunched singles in the eighth, but Redman leftfielder Ron Naclerio doubled off Pearce on Santos-Buch's line drive.
"We just kicked the ball around today, and we just got beat," Park said afterward. And that was about all that was left to say on a day that was, in a word, pitiful.
Four teams remain in the tourney. Harvard will have to wait until next spring for another chance.