In the top of the third, however, Binkowskicontinued his heroics. The sophomore belted hissecond home run of the season--a line drive toleft-center-field--to score senior Brett Vankoskiand tie the contest at two.

Bechard recovered from Binkowski's blast tocoast into the sixth, but the Crimson bats wereready to strike once again.

Junior rightfielder Andrew Huling led of theinning with a bunt single, and reached second on athrowing error. Then Ralph--the defending IvyLeague Player of the Year--went to the oppositefield with his ninth home run on the season givingthe Crimson a 4-2 lead.

The Crimson wasn't finished there. Forstreached on a one-out infield single, and went tosecond on a wild pitch. Carey then followed withan RBI single to rightfield to increase theHarvard lead to 5-2.

Meanwhile, Birtwell continued to dominate. Inthe bottom half of the sixth, however, he wastouched for a one-out home run by junior CamPelton--his first on the year--cutting the lead to5-3. Birtwell nonetheless remained poised, andretired five of the next six batters to finishseven strong innings.

"In the first inning I was just getting used topitching again," Birtwell said. "I didn't makemany mistakes after that, and my teammates pickedme up like I knew they would."

Bechard went the rest of the way for LeMoynewithout allowing a hit in the final three innings,but it was not enough, as the Crimson bullpen wasstellar.

Walsh brought in junior Donny Jamieson (3-1,4.23 ERA) in the top of the eighth to close outthe ballgame for Harvard, and the righthanderdidn't disappoint.

Allowing only one runner on the final twoinnings, Jamieson shut down the Dolphins, as heearned his first save on the season, and cementedthe Crimson's second consecutive invitation to theNCAA Tournament Regionals with a 5-3 victory.

Next up for Harvard

Harvard will learn its destination andopponents for the NCAA Tournament Regionals thisafternoon at 3 P.M. on ESPN's selection show.

Last season the Crimson travelled to OklahomaSt. for the Midwest Regional and upset top-seedUCLA as well as Stetson--coming within two wins ofa College World Series invitation--before bowingout. Now Harvard is anxious to give it anothertry.

"We are real excited to go back [toregionals]," Ralph said. "We are going to go outthere and have some fun see what happens. Lastyear we got a few wins, so we're a little moreready now."

Without question the Crimson are looking for awin this year, and are confident in its chances.

"We are going out there to win the damn thingthis year, that's all I'm going to tell you,"Walsh said.HARVARD, 5-3 at O'Donnell Field