Give the Harvard baseball team's pitching staff a ton of credit. It almost single-handedly carried the Crimson through this Ivy weekend.

But give the bats, reticent though they were, some credit too. They didn't make a lost of noise, but they made noise when it mattered. PRINCETON  3 HARVARD  1 PRINCETON  0 HARVARD  3 CORNELL  0 HARVARD  3 CORNELL  1 HARVARD  5

Repeat aces from sophomore John Birtwell and freshman Ben Crockett, both of whom threw complete-game shutouts, combined with timely, if not prolific, hitting helped the Crimson (12-10, 6-2 Ivy) maintain a first-place tie with Brown in the Red Rolfe Division.

Despite hitting an anemic .226 on the weekend, the Crimson patched together enough opportunistic multi-run innings to scratch three wins, splitting with Princeton on Saturday before sweeping Cornell yesterday at O'Donnell Field.

Senior second baseman Peter Wood-fork, captain Hal Carey and freshman left fielder Mark Manger, who collected two RBI apiece, were the only Harvard players with multiple RBI.

"We've been swinging at bad pitches, we've been getting fastballs sneaked by us and we haven't had good at-bats," Wood-fork said. "We go through whole games, and we don't make good contact and we give up easy at-bats."

"Today's wins were huge," said senior Donny Jamieson, who started and earned the win in yesterday's nightcap. "We were really focused and aware that we have to start building something. We came in 10-10, and we had to move away from .500."

Harvard 5, Cornell 1

Jamieson was temporarily relocated from the bullpen, where he carried a 9.82 ERA in six appearances, to start in place of classmate Andrew Duffell, who is down with an elbow sprain.

Jamieson, who won two games in relief at the NCAA Regional last season, worked his finest outing of the year, tossing six shutout innings while scattering four hits and striking out two en route to a 5-1 win.

"It feels good," Jamieson said. "It's my first start of the season, and I had struggled a little bit in the bullpen. Duffell was hurt, so I got to make a start, and on this staff, everybody's battling to get starts."

Jamieson (2-0) also benefited from four infield double plays, including inning-enders in the third, fifth and sixth. Junior first baseman Erick Binkowski turned the prettiest of the four, snagging Cornell shortstop Raul Gomez's ground ball inside the line, stepping on the bag and then firing to second for the lead S-1runner, a second baseman Andrew Luria.

"That's function of hitting my spots andkeeping the ball down," Jamieson said. "I don'thave an overpowering fastball like Crockett, soI'm not going to get as many strikeouts."

The Harvard bats continued to slump, managingonly five hits, but four Cornell errors helped theCrimson to four unearned runs though the first twoinnings.

Mager keyed a two-run burst in the first,hitting a one-out sacrifice fly to score seniorcenter fielder Andrew Huling. When Big Red rightfielder Kris Green's rocket from the right-fieldcorner skipped wide up the third-base line,Woodfork alertly trotted home with another run fora 2-0 lead off Cornell loser Jeff Miller (0-2).

Harvard scrapped three more in the second,combining a little smallball with some bush leagueCornell defense.

After sophomore right fielder Scott Carmacktook first on a dropped third strike to open theinning, junior designated hitter Jeff Bridich--whowas 2-for-3 with a run scored in the game--slappeda single through the right side on a text bookhit-and-run.