Less than one week after its 7-1 shellacking of Northeastern in the Beanpot consolation match, the Harvard baseball team gets set to do it again today at Friedman Diamond.

Last Wednesday afternoon at Fenway Park, the Crimson (25-15, 16-4 Ivy) used seven pitchers in as many innings, and received some key hits from its battery to crush the Huskies (19-17, 11-9 America East) for third place in the Beanpot tournament.

More recently, the Crimson is coming off a four-game set against Ivy League foe Dartmouth. And after taking three games out of four on the weekend from the Big Green, the Crimson clinched its fourth consecutive Red Rolfe Division title.

The division championship sends Harvard up against Lou Gehrig division winner Princeton for the Ancient Eight title--the fourth straight year that the two teams have met for the title. The winner of this best-of-three game series, to be held next weekend at O'Donnell field, earns the right to move on to the NCAA regionals.

Having already earned the right to fight for a regional spot, the Crimson match-up against the Huskies this afternoon assumes much less importance. Win or lose, Harvard's chances for further postseason play will not be affected.

However, despite the seeming unimportance of the contest, the Crimson are focused on Northeastern, trying to eliminate any chance of losing its edge with its big weekend match against the Tigers looming.

"We're definitely going to go full-out against them tomorrow, and will try our hardest to win," captain Hal Carey said. "We have two games before Princeton, and we want to get both wins to have a little momentum going into the weekend."

Having defeated the Huskies last Thursday 7-1--as well as blanking them 11-0 in last year's Beanpot consolation game--Harvard comes into the contest a clear favorite.

But despite its obvious success against Northeastern in the past, the Crimson players do not feel that the outcome of today's game is certain by any means.