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Baseball Drops Beanpot Opener to Northeastern, Squanders Lead to Brown

Solid pitching, strong offense falls apart in ninth

With this past weekend's bad weather having forced the cancellation of the three of the four meetings between the two teams, Harvard and Brown still have a pair of games to make up at some point later this season. No date has been announced as of yet.

NORTHEASTERN 7, HARVARD 5

Harvard will have to go yet another year without a Beanpot baseball championship, as the Huskies (16-12) downed the Crimson 7-5 yesterday on the opening day of the 11th annual edition of the Boston baseball tournament.

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Northeastern pitcher Ken Henry earned the complete-game victory for the Huskies, despite surrendering five runs on eight hits.

Harvard will now play in the tournament's consolation game for the second straight year. The Crimson has not celebrated a Beanpot title since 1991, when it defeated B.C. 12-9.

The nine-year drought is the longest dry spell of any of the four Beanpot teams.

Three runs in the bottom of eighth gave Northeastern the victory. Two of those runs came off Crimson freshman reliever Kenon Ronz (1-2) who was dealt the loss, despite allowing just two hits in 4.2 innings of work.

Ronz had replaced Harvard starter Mike Dryden, who was chased from the game after just 2.2 innings of work.

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