Golden finally settled down to get captain HalCarey and Woodfork. That left it up to Duffell,who had gotten the final two outs in Princeton'shalf of the eighth, to protect the one-run lead.

"I wasn't nervous," Duffel said. "I'm a seniorand I've been here for four years. I didn't get topitch many innings this year but it's great to getthe win in this kind of game. Guys were makinghuge plays behind me."

The biggest defensive play of the series cameafter Tiger freshman left fielder Ryan Achterbergled off the bottom of the ninth by bouncing agrounder under Mager's outstretched glove. Withthe tying run on first, Walsh called a defensiveplay--"43"--on the second pitch to the nextbatter, sophomore pinch hitter, Casey Hildreth,who represented the winning run and had tried tobunt the first pitch.

As Duffell delivered to Hildreth, Carey andBinkowski charged from the corners and Woodforkwheeled to first base. Sophomore catcher ScotHopps--in for Keck, who was replaced by sophomorepinch runner Joe Llanes after his ninth inningsingle--received the pitch and fired to Woodfork,who tagged out the sliding Achterberg.

"Coach called the play and everybody executed,"Hopps said. "Woodie did a great pitch and I justgot the ball to first base."

For the second time in two innings, the crowdwas still raving over Walsh's genius. In theprevious inning, he had called for junior MattDevine to pick off Princeton senior leadoff hitterJason Koonin at first base. The play resulted in arundown with Koonin getting tagged out at second.

But Duffell hit Hildreth on the hand on thenext pitch and Princeton had the winning run atthe plate again.

That was all for Duffell and Walsh called inVail, who had pitched five-plus innings to get thevictory Saturday in Game One. The righthander gotMitchell to pop out to Huling in center and thenfanned Boran, who had just homered, before he wasmobbed by his Ancient Eight-champion teammates.

"All of [the pitchers] who went yesterday toldCoach that we were ready to go, so I wasn'tsurprised when I got put into the game," Vailsaid. "In a game like this, you worry about yourarm later; the team comes first. The adrenalinewas enough to get through it. Coming in I knowthat I would only throw a few pitches, so they hadto be good ones."

Princeton 7, Harvard 6

Just as it would do in Game Three, Harvardscored three runs in its final inning of Game Two.But that was not enough, and Princeton held on forthe 7-6 victory in Saturday's nightcap.

Tiger junior righthander Jason Quintana heldthe Crimson to three runs over eight innings butleft the game after a throwing error by Princetonsenior third baseman Chris Loving let Mager reachfirst and Carmack advance to second. Bradleyturned to Golden to protect the 7-3 lead and thesenior did, but barely.

Carey slapped a single past second base to loadthe bases and Woodfork followed with a shot up themiddle to drive in two runs. Huling grounded outto second but advanced the runners to second andthird. Keck rolled a grounder to second, butMitchell hesitated and everyone was safe, withCarey scoring. But Bridich hit the sixth Harvardgrounder in a row to end the game.

"We made it exciting in the ninth but we hadplenty of chances to score earlier in theballgame," Walsh said. "We weren't dropping buntsor knocking runners in from scoring position."

The Crimson cruised to a 3-2 lead behindsophomore righthander John Birtwell until play wasinterrupted by a 25-minute rain delay in thebottom of the sixth inning. But Birtwell onlylasted to face four Tigers in the top of theseventh, when he left with the score even at 3-3and two runners on base.