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Next year's team will be a base-running clinic.

The 1985 squad stole 80 bases in 94 attempts, and the three leading base stealers return next year Chris McAndrews (19 thefts in 21 attempts). Jim DePalo (17 in 19) and Bobby Kay (14 in 16) are the best baserunners Harvard's had in years.

After pilfering 46 pillows in 1982 and 1983 combined, the Crimson ran wild, with 75 steals in 91 attempts last year. Look for the figures to climb higher next season, when the team could be in more close games.

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Stat Wrap: The team batted .322. Vallone led the team in hitting (.370). followed by Vierra (.361). Rivera (.351) and McNamara (.349). McNamara led the team in homers (five), while Vierra led in doubles (12), extra base hits (17) and slugging percentage (.713). Rivera led in total bases (88, one more than Vierra), hits (46). RBI (39) and at-bats (131), Mickey Maspons led in runs scored (129), DePalo in walks (37) and Kay in sacrifice (10).

Harvard continued to be disciplined at the place drawing more than seven walks per nine inning.

The pitching staff posted a 3.84 ERA, half a run off last year's total. Musselman (9-2) won more games than any Harvard pitcher since Larry Brown '79 went 10-1 in 1978. Musselman's 77 strikeouts in 70 innings is one better than Brown's 76 in 85 frames. Musselman allowed only 48 hits and walked just 28 batters, 10 of them in his first game.

Musselman and Marchese are certainly in a class with Brown. Their career records are remarkably similar: Marchese 22-5, Brown 23-6, and Musselman 21-6.

Musselman and Marchese finished with exactly the same number of career strikeouts, 183.

Harvard doesn't keep record of strikeouts (for a career, a seasons or a game), so there's no way of Knowing how Marchese and Musselman compare to some of the great Crimson hurlers of the past.

NCAA Regional Pairings

East Regional

at Columbia, S.C.

Old Dominion vs. Western Carolina