If the Harvard baseball team's 1982 season was a movie, they'd just roll the cameras back and start over again. Eastern League opener, take two. Quiet on the set.

But situation comedies play before a live audience, and the latest, Tigers Turn the Tables, didn't generate many smiles at Soldiers Field. After splitting with Navy to open its EIBL season on Saturday, the Crimson lost both ends of yesterday's doubleheader to Princeton, squandering the opener, 7-6, before getting blown away by Bob Holly, 4-2, in the nightcap.

If losing one to the Middies was excusable, because (a) they are one of the circuit's finer teams and (b) Harvard only avoided an 0-4 weekend with a five-run comeback in the second game, finding a way to drop two games to Princeton requires a singular effort.

Miracle

The Tigers, now 5-5, are a bunch of EIBL also-rans who didn't even manage to sweep Dartmouth on Saturday. Yet, powered by a Paul Steinhauser three-run homer in each game and the six-hit, eight-strikeout pitching of Holly, they pulled off one of those minor miracles that seems to happen somewhere in the Eastern League every weekend, and before you could pause for a commercial message. Harvard was being written out of the EIBL script, 1-3 in the league and 3-7 overall.

The Crimson jumped on Tiger starter Steve Kordish for three first-inning runs in the opener, but Princeton scored twice in the second and twice in the fourth before Harvard's Gaylord Lyman could re-knot the game with an RBI single.

Battle

Steinhauser then touched freshman Jeff Musselman for a three-RBI trot around the bases in the fifth, and the Tigers took a 7-4 lead. But like the nightcap the previous day, the Crimson battled back, evening the score with three runs in the bottom of the inning before calling on fireman Mike Smerczynski to hold Princeton.

Smerczynski tried, but a bloop single fell between shortstop Tony DiCesare and center fielder Bruce Weller, and after Steinhauser stole second, Dean Tanella's bad-hop base hit proved to be the ball game.

"Baseball is like Russian Roulette," Smerczynski said after the game. "Some days you have a gun and no bullets, and other days you have seven bullets in a six-chamber gun."

While on the subject of bullets, it is pertinent to mention fireballer Holly, who allowed two first-inning singles sandwiched around a 1-6-3 double play and just about nothing that until the Crimson scratched across single runs in the sixth and seventh.

"Outside Ron Darling, he's as good as anybody we've faced in the last two years," said Weller, who went oh-for-four against the Princeton captain after ending a four-game hitting streak in the first game. "His fast ball was overpowering, and when he threw the curve for a strike it was a pretty vicious pitch. He was also throwing as hard in the seventh as he was in the first."

Not Enough

Not surprisingly, Princeton's three first-inning runs stood up. Harvard freshman Charlie Marchese, who turned in six innings against Northeastern last Wednesday in his first varsity appearance, began his Eastern League career with a solid complete-game outing, yielding just three earned runs, whiffing five and walking three. But when your backing is one extra-base hit (a Paul Chicarello double) and five singles, allowing three earned runs ain't going to get you the win.

Saturday, Bill Larson thought he had the same problem on his hands. The junior, who had not pitched anywhere in 11 months, threw six tremendous innings, allowing just two singles and no runs. Unfortunately, there was a seventh inning sandwiched in there that sounded like the 1812 Overture--five cannon shots (including three homers and a triple) in the five-run second frame that put the Crimson on the short end of things until late afternoon.

More and More

After flailing at Craig Michael's sneaky-fast emissions for three innings, Larson's mates rapped home three runs in the fourth, two more in the fifth, and the eventual gamewinner (on a Chicarello sacrifice fly) in the sixth.

Larson flirted with disaster in the Navy seventh, but Chris Schindler caught Jon Mullican's fly to left to end things with a runner on second in Harvard's only happy ending of the weekend.

THE NOTEBOOK: Saturday's first game, a 9-3 loss, was highlighted on the Crimson end by Gaylord Lyman's 400-foot home run off-Middie Bob Adrion. The diminutive sophomore walloped a slow curve to right-centerfield for his first home run in intercollegiate competition. The two-run shot equalled his 1981 runs-batted-in total... Nobody can explain Larson's second-inning lapse in Saturday's nightcap. Yeah, the wind was blowing out, but as Larson says, "those balls were hit." In all, the weekend featured ten homers, but just three for the home team... After six games up north, every Harvard pitcher has seen action with the exception of senior John Sorich (who warmed up Saturday) and freshman Cecil Cox (who warmed up yesterday). Vinnie Martelli has caught all six contests, and backups Kevin Lennon and Mickey Maspons are still box-score virgins. Saturday, First Game NAVY (9)  HARVARD (3)   ab  r  h  bl    ab  r  h  bl Lofersky cf  3  1  1  0  DiCesare ss  4  0  1  0 Wild 1b  4  1  1  4  Weller cf  4  1  2  0 Ponsiego dh  4  1  2  1  Bauer 3b  2  0  0  0 Deitz c  2  1  1  0  Martolli c  2  0  0  0 Kelly pr  0  1  0  0  Allard rf  3  0  1  1 Rowe 2b  1  0  0  0  Farrell 1b  3  0  0  0 Mullican 3b  3  2  1  0  Chicarello dh  2  0  0  0 Acalin rf  3  0  0  0  Schindler ll  2  1  2  0 Dishman 2b  2  0  0  0  Lyman 2b  2  1  1  2 Baidocci ph-c  1  1  0  0 Kiser if  3  0  0  0 Wilson ss  3  1  1  2 Total  29  9  7  7  Total  24  3  7  3

Navy  021  006  0-9  7  0 Harvard  020  010  0-3  7  2 E-Doyle, DiCesare, LOB-Navy 4, Harvard 8, 2B-Ponaiego, Weller, HR-Ponsiego, Wild, Lyman.

  IP  H  R  ER  BB  SO Adrion (W, 5-2)  7  7  3  3  5  1 Doyle (L, 1-1)  5 2/3  6  9  7  4  6 Smerczynski  1 1/2  1  0  0  0  0

Saturday, Second Game NAVY (5)  HARVARD (6)   ab  r  h  bi      ab  r  h  bl Lofersky cf  4  1  1  2  DiCesare ss  4  0  1  0 Wild 1b  3  0  0  0  Weller cf  3  0  1  0 Ponsiego dh  4  0  1  0  bauer 3b  3  0  1  1 Baldocci c  4  0  1  0  Martelli c  4  1  1  0 Mullican 3b  3  0  0  0  Allard rf  4  1  4  0 Acalin rf  3  1  1  1  Farrell 1b  3  1  0  0 Dishman 2b  2  1  1  0  Chicare dh  2  2  1  2 Deitz ph  1  0  0  0  Schindler if  2  1  1  1 Rose 2b  0  0  0  0  Lyman 2b  3  0  1  2 Kiser if  3  1  1  2 Wilson ss  1  1  1  0 Total  28  5  7  5  Total  28  6  11  6

Navy  050  000  0--5  7  1 Harvard  000  321  x--6  11  0 E-Wilson, LOB-Navy 6, Harvard 10, 2B-Allard 2, Martelli, Schindler, Lyman, 3B-Dishman, HR-Acalin, Kiser, Lofersky.

  IP  H  R  ER  BB  SO Michael  3 1/3  4  3  3  3  4 Gibson  1  5  2  2  1  1 Knapper (L)  1  2  1  1  1  0 Thurgold  2/3  0  0  0  0  0 Larson (W, 1-0)  6  7  5  5  3  7

Sunday, First Game PRINCETON (8)  HARVARD (7)   ab  r  h  bl    ab  r  h  bi Besi if  4  0  1  0  Chicarello dh  4  1  0  0 Magno 2b  2  1  1  0  Weller cf  3  0  0  0 Srider 1b  3  0  1  0  Bauer 3b  3  1  1  1 Teeple rf  0  0  0  0  Martelli c  4  1  1  0 Kordish p-dh  3  2  1  0  Allard rf  4  2  1  2 Rodts c  2  2  0  0  Farrell 1b  3  0  0  0 Steinhauser 3b  4  3  2  3  DiCesare ss  3  2  3  2 Tanella rf  2  0  2  3  Schindler if  4  0  2  0 Naylor 1b  1  0  1  1  Lyman 2b  4  0  2  1 Touhey cf  3  0  0  1 Keffley cf  2  0  0  0 Total  26  8  9  8  Total  32  7  10  6

Princeton  021  230  1--8  9  2 Harvard  300  130  0--7  10  2 E-Steinhauser, Magno, Lyman, Bauer, LOB-Princeton 6, Harvard 8, 2B-Magno, Tanella, Bauer, DiCesare, 3B-Martell, HR-Steinhauser, Allard, DiCesare

  IP  H  R  ER  BB  SO Kordish  4 1/3  10  7  5  2  1 Beard (W)  1 2/3  0  0  0  2  0 Cunin  3  3  4  2  3  0 Musselman  1 2/3  2  3  3  4  2 Smerczynski (L)  2 1/3  4  1  1  0  1

Sunday, Second Game PRINCETON (4)  HARVARD (2)   ab  r  h  bl    ab  r  h  bl Best if  4  0  0  0  Chicarello dh  4  0  2  1 Cable cf-rf  3  0  0  0  Weller cf  2  0  0  0 Kales rf  3  1  1  0  Bauer 3b  4  0  1  0 Touhey cf  0  0  0  0  Martelli c  2  1  1  0 Kordish 1b  4  1  1  0  DiCesare ss  3  0  0  0 Steinhauser 3b  4  1  3  3  Farrell 1b  2  0  1  1 Teeple dh  2  0  2  0  Rivera rf  2  0  0  0 Magno 2b  3  0  1  0  Allard rf  1  0  0  0 Heffley ss  3  0  0  0  Scheper rf  0  0  0  0 Peters c  3  1  0  0  Lyman 2b  3  1  1  0 Total  29  4  8  3  Total  23  2  6  2

Princeton  300  100  0-4  8  0 Harvard  000  001  1-2  6  4 E-Rivera, Lyman, DiCesare, Martelli, 2B-Chicarello, HR-Steinhauser.

  IP  H  R  ER  BB  SO Holly (W)  7  6  2  2  6  8 Marchese (L)  7  8  4  3  3  5