"They threw some good games, but we helped alot," Forst said. "We weren't confident at theplate and we swung at a lot of bad pitches."

Yale 9, Harvard 3

In yesterday's opener, the Crimson finally gota taste of the real Eric Gutshall. The seniorrighthander, trumpeted as perhaps the Ivy's topstarter, bounced back with a complete-gamelockdown a day after getting tossed around inmiddle relief.

Gutshall (4-5), was never overpowering,coughing up eight hits and five free passes, butfanned nine Crimson batters with a devastatingmixture of offspeed pitches to keep himself in thegame.

Gutshall trailed 2-1 until the bottom of thefifth, when Harvard starter Vail (2-2) ran intoproblems with the bottom of the Bulldog order.With one out, a booted groundball by Forst anda double by Kahney put runners on second andthird.

Vail handled designated hitter Greg Janis'sone-hopper back to the box, cutting off the run athome for the second out of the inning, then drewleadoff hitter Ben Johnstone.

Walsh had no interest in pitching to thecenterfielder, who was a scorching 6-12 with sixruns scored on the weekend, and issued him anintentional walk to load the bags for secondbaseman Tommy Kidwell.

The Bulldog captain made the move backfire,turning on Vail's fastball and drilling it overthe leftfield wall for a backbreaking grand slam.

"I didn't want to let Johnstone hit," Walshsaid." And honestly I didn't think Kidwell couldgo yard. I still think it was the right move."

That it was, but the percentages burned theHarvard skipper, who then lifted Vail for seniormiddle reliever Mike Marcucci, trailing 5-2.

Marcucci, sharp in his last several reliefappearances, simply didn't have it, surrenderingthree more runs on four hits in just a third of aninning to give Yale an insurmountable 9-2advantage.

Harvard 10, Yale 7

Walsh got a less-than-par start from one of hisaces in Saturday's nightcap, and was forced torely on a last-ditch rally in the sixth to avert asweep. Jamieson, who had tossed seven andtwo-thirds heroic innings against Columbia inCambridge last weekend, never found his grooveagainst the Bulldog lineup.

Jamieson lasted only four, coughing up eighthits and four earned runs, and fanning one in theno-decision.

For at least four innings, however, this ballgame was a purely Twilight Zone affair, as Yaleput out an unnervingly good imitation of Harvardsmallball. The Bulldogs scrapped a pair in thebottom of the second, using a pair of singles, asac bunt, a wild pitch and, stealing a pagedirectly from Walsh's playbook, a suicide squeezeto bring two men in.