The Tufts softball team in rich in talent--it has some world-class acrobats on the roster.

When it comes to playing softball, however, the Jumbos aren't so great.

Harvard coasted to an easy 7-3 victory over Tufts yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field, improving its record to 9-4. "Upset" is not a word you would use to describe the outcome of the contest.

"It's nice to win the ones you should win." Crimson Coach John Wentzell said. He added, though, that "those sometimes are not the easiest games."

The Jumbos certainly didn't make things easy for themselves. The visitors committed three errors on the afternoon--two of them unquestionably of "This Week In Softball" quality.

Tufts center fielder, Nancy Retchlin and left fielder Kathy Durga either had a strange affinity for each other--or else were catching up on gymnastics practice.

In the bottom of the fourth, with the score tied at one and Harvard's Lisa Rowning standing on second. Joan Cunningham came to the plate--and drove the pitch into left center. Reichlin and Durga conversed on the ball, and Reichlin scooped it up.

Then they did something odd--they kicked up their legs and tripped each other.

Oops.

That little acrobatic display initiated a four-run Crimson rally, putting the Cantabs on top stay Give the game winning RBI to those Jumbo outfielders.

Once was not enough, however, as Reichlin and Durga demonstrated in the bottom of the sixth. After smashed a double to left center, the Amazing Jumbos were up to their old trick kick, and crash.

With that kind of assistance. Harvard could hardly help winning. What the batswomen showed, however, was that they wouldn't have had too much trouble disposing of Tufts under any circumstances.

The squad punched out a total of 10 hits against Jumbo hurler Amy BInder, including a double, two triples, and a home run. That followed up Tuesday's nine-hit (four extra base hit) assault on Maine.

Wentzell noted that the proliferation of two, three, and four-sackers was a factor in the Crimson's success. "We put the proliferation on them all day," Wentzell said. "It [the outfield] is hard, and the balls just roll."

All of last year, when it finished. Harvard had only 15 extra base hits, with 13 doubles, a triple, and a home run. This year, with yesterday's game marking the halfway point on the schedule, the sluggers have already knocked 18 shots for extra bases (7, 5, and 6).