Both teams had forgettable first innings. Dorrington gave up three hits and three runs. And the first thought that came to his mind was, in the immortal words of our former president, "There they go again," But BU starting pitcher Ron Short wouldn't allow any jokes to go at Ronald Reagan's expense and promptly gave up three runs of his own.

Harvard manufactured a run in the third and two in the fifth. The fifth inning almost mirrored the first as Konjoyan, left fielder Marcel Durand and first baseman Rich Renninger played key roles in the drive.

Konjoyan and Durand each had three hits in the game, and Renninger went 2-for-4 with a sacrifice fly. The Crimson gathered 11 hits, but it wasn't enough against BU's 14 hits and decisive ninth inning.

"Somehow, we always rise to the occasion when we come here," Mahoney said.

THE NOTEBOOK: Harvard gets back into EIBL action this weekend when it hosts Columbia and Army in back-to-back doubleheaders Saturday and Sunday at 12 p.m....Entering this week's EIBL action, Renninger was leading the league in batting with a .480 average. Durand is tied for the league lead in triples (2) and Bob Baxter is sixth in the league in E.R.A. (1.50).

EIBL Standings Team  EIBL Penn  14-2 Princeton  6-4 Army  8-6 Dartmouth  4-4 Columbia  6-8 Brown  5-7 Cornell  4-6 Navy  6-10 HARVARD  3-5 Yale  4-8