Crockett recorded 13 ground ball outs, in sharpcontrast to his last two starts. He fanned sevenagainst Yale and eight against Cornell.

Portman led the Crimson with three RBI,finishing 2-for-4, while Bridich was 2-for-4 withtwo RBI and two runs scored.

Brown 4, Harvard 3 (8 innings)

Harvard starter John Birtwell had struck outDarren Merten swinging in each of his first threeat-bats in Saturday's nightcap. Merten waiteduntil extra innings to take his revenge.

After a leadoff triple by DeYoung in the bottomof the eighth, Merten punched a game-winningsingle through the right side of a drawn-ininfield, breaking a 3-3 tie that had lasted sincethe top of the third and giving Brown a 4-3 win.

Birtwell (3-3) sustained his first Ivy loss ofthe season and only the second of his career,surrendering three earned runs on 10 hits in acomplete-game effort. He struck out six andretired 10 men in a row leading up to the eighth.

Harvard threatened, putting the go-ahead run onsecond base with one out in both the seventh andthe eighth, but could not convert on eitheropportunity.

Brown starter Jim Johnson (5-0) squashed heseventh-inning rally when he stabbed a come-backerby Carey and induced Woodfork to pop up, strandingpinch runner Joe Llanes on second.

In the eighth, Johnson worked out of afirst-and-second, one-out predicament by pickingBinkowski off second and striking out Carmack.

Johnson finished with three earned runs oneight innings.

The Crimson trailed 2-0 after a sloppy first inwhich a booted ground ball by Mager and asacrifice fly by DeYoung allowed the Bears a pairof cheap runs.

But Mager atoned for his fielding miscue bylashing a two-out, two-run single into left in thesecond. It was his only hit of the day, to goalong with three sacrifices.

After a Kantrovitz sacrifice fly in the secondmade it 3-2, Keck lined an RBI single up themiddle to score Woodfork with the tying run in thethird.

Harvard 15, Brown 12

In a game that seemed at times like a repriseof its 18-16 win over Penn in its Ivy opener, theCrimson used a 10-run fifth inning to take thelead then rode out Brown's five-spot in theseventh to take Saturday's opener 15-12.