After dropping a 13-12, nine-inning decision to UMass on Monday afternoon at Fenway Park, the Harvard baseball team looks to turn things around against Northeastern today in the consolation game of the Beanpot tournament.

The contest between the two teams is a re-match of the semifinal match of last year's Beanpot. In that game the Crimson (21-14, 13-3 Ivy) spanked the Huskies (17-14), 11-0, to advance to the championship game, which was cancelled due to rain.

Harvard is hoping for more of the same this time around, but it will need to improve on a lackluster performance from its usually solid pitching staff to duplicate last year's result.

Against the Minutemen (22-12), the Crimson squandered a 10-4 fourth-inning lead.

The Harvard bats were working, lighting the scoreboard up for 12 runs on 18 hits. But the pitching simply wasn't there for the Crimson as it surrendered 14 hits, including two home runs and two doubles, to UMass.

"It seems that this season we've hit well in some games and haven't pitched too great, or the opposite," captain Hal Carey said. "We simply had trouble combining the two, but we'll get it all together and will be fine."

Aside from some improved pitching out of its hurlers, Harvard will look to continue its onslaught at the plate. The Crimson has averaged over nine runs per game over its last five contests, winning four of them.

"We've really started to hit the ball well as a team the past couple of weeks," Carey said. "Early on in the season, we struggled a bit at the plate, but lately everyone has been doing his part."

Leading the way with the sticks for Harvard this season has been senior center fielder Andrew Huling. In addition to his sparkling play in the field, Huling's .415 average, 5 home runs, 43 RBI and 12 doubles are all tops on the squad. Huling went 2-for-4 with an RBI and three runs scored on Monday.