But despite getting a late jump on the ball, Brown right fielder Joe Stepp managed to make a backpedaling catch before falling over backwards.
The play was anything but pretty, but it took a sure extra-base hit away from Lentz and prevented Harvard from scoring the tying run.
"I thought [Stepp]made the play of the game," Walsh said. "That catch was a real momentum-breaker for us."
Harvard managed two singles off Johnson in the last three innings of the game but could not advance either of those runners past first base.
The meat of the Harvard order was particularly ineffective at the plate. On the afternoon, the Crimson's three, four and five hitters went a combined 2-for-11 with a pair of strikeouts.
Harvard's offensive woes forced Walsh to make a couple of rare calls, including the decision to have Carmack, the team's three-hole hitter, lay down a bunt in the sixth.
"We didn't get a lot out of the middle of the line-up," Walsh said. "When you're not getting production out of the three and four spots, it's really tough."
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