Senior righthander Andrew Duffell, who had notpitched since sustaining an elbow sprain April 3at Columbia, threw the seventh inning. He workedwithout incident, collecting three groundball outsand walking one.

"I though DUffell had surprisingly good pop forsomebody who hasn't pitched in a month", Donovansaid. "I wish I could have gotten him two inningstoday. He's a senior who's been around, and he'sgoing to help us out".

Birtwell was originally intended to pitch onlyfive innings but worked the sixth because hispitch count was low, Donovan said.

"Duffell looked great", Keck said. "He wasthrowing hard, he had command of all three pitchesand we don't expect him to have any more problems.

Dartmouth 4, Harvard 1

A rare middle-relief lapse cost the Crimsonyesterday's opener, as Harvard surrendered fourruns on a pair of home runs by Dartmouth centerfielder James Little in the sixth and seventhinnings.

Senior starter Garett Vail worked five shutoutinnings, striking out seven and walking just one.Vail battled especially hard in the fifth,Striking out the side after allowing a leadoffdouble.

But Vail felt a twinges in his right elbowafter closing out the frame and did not take themound for the sixth.

"That was primarily a precautionary measure",Donovan said. "We didn't want to lose Vail, sincehe's our No. 1 starter, and he was only slated togo five innings anyway".

Vail exited with a 1-0 lead.

But Little took sophomore reliever JohnFraney's first pitch in the sixth inning over theleft-center field wall for a 1-1 tie and struckback again in the seventh, this time off juniorMike Madden (2-3).

Madden entered with one out in the seventh andstruck out pinch hitter Derek Draper. But heallowed left fielder Dan Becker to reach on anerror then walked third basenam Mike Conway.

Little then connected for his second long ballof the afternoon, tagging Madden to the left-fieldpower alley for a 4-1 Dartmouth lead.

Big Green starter Conor Brooks (4-3) finishedwhat he started in an uneventful seventh, becomingonly the third Ivy League pitcher to beat theBrown's Jim Johnson and Princeton's Chris Youngare the others.

Brooks sported good location on his fastballall game and got ahead in virtually every count.He scattered six hits while striking out eight andwalking one.