Leading the squad in extra-base hits is Baldauf, with three-two doubles and a home run.

In fact, as a team, Harvard is setting quite a slugging pace. Along with Baldauf and Brown. Hayes has also smacked a round-tripper--the seventh-inning game-winner that boosted the Crimson over Wheaton Monday.

All of last year, the Cantabs produced just one home run.

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The Harvard pitchers are also setting quite a pace in the whiffs department.

Dickerman, in only 16 innings pitched, has already struck out nine-just one shy of the 10 she recorded last season in 13 innings.

Rubin should also better her 1984 mark. She has fanned 14 in 33 framey, more than half of last year's total of 27 (over 89 innings).

The overall Crimson strikeout/walk ratio, however, is only borderline at 23/22. Rubin's individula ratio is 14/11, while Dickerman's is 9/11.

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This is the first year that the bats women will not be travelling to one site to participate in an Ivy tournament. In past years, the five varsity squads (Harvard, Yale, Brown, Penn and Princeton) along with the two club teams (Cornell and Dartmouth) would meet for one weekend of round-robin play.

This season, however, the league games are spread out over the course of the season, with the squads meeting for weekend doubleheaders.

The Crimson has its work cut out this weekend with Penn and Princeton in town-last year's squad lost to the Quakers, 13-3 and tell to the league champion Tigers, 9-1.