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Crimson Opens Season with 3-4 Record in Riverside Tourney

Forced to work five innings-plus because of the Crimson's overer tended pitching staff, he walked 10 while striking out only one By the time Nahigian could afford to go to his bullpen, the Aztecs held a 7-3 lead.

WEDNESDAY

Arizona State 5, Harvard 3--By all rights, the Crimson should have beaten the Sundevils, who have won five national championships and have the best record in baseball over the past 13 seasons. Sophomore Jim Chenevey pitched an extraordinary game, only to watch his teammates strand 14--yes, 14--runners and go without a single extra-base hit.

Facing a lineup with three pre-season All-Americans, Chenevey fanned seven in as many innings, fooling the batters with breaking balls.

"He pitched extremely well," said Nahigian after the game. And the stranded runners? "Sometimes you bring them in, and sometimes you don't."

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FRIDAY

Oregon State 13, Harvard 10--For a while, it looked like the Crimson would finally get blown out. The eventual tournaments champion Beavers built and Landslide through three and a half innings. To make matters worse rains Wednesday night and Thursday morning forced the tournament to shorten all to games seven innings with a two and a half-hour time limit.

But Harvard sent 13 men to the plate in a seven run fourth inning and suddenly OSU clung to a one-run margin. The Beavers soon forged ahead again with five more runs, and the Crimson's three run rally in the bottom of the sixth wasn't enough. The umpires enforced the time limit to end the game an inning early.

UCLA 6 Harvard 4--Cox pitched well through six innings homer seesaw struggle. The Crimson converted Kay's lead-off triple into a 1-0 lead and Maspons's second inning homer made at 2-1 Harvard. But the Bruins tied it again in the third, an than took advantage of three walks and an to tally two runs in a hitless fourth inning.

Harvard knotted the game with runs in the fifth and the sixth, but the Crimson couldn't rebound after reliever Sutton yielded two run in the top of the seventh.

SATURDAY

Harvard 13, Missouri 6--The Crimson stole seven bases and took advantage of six Tiger errors en route to a convincing victory in the final game of the tournament. Musselman, working in relief of Presz, struck out seven and yielded just two hits in five innings to record the win

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