Harvard plated two more runs in both the fifth and seventh innings before Mager singled home the Crimson's final run in the bottom of the eighth.
Yale 7, Harvard 0
In the first game of the weekend series, the pressure was on Crockett from the outset.
In fact, the junior righthander was staring down the barrel of a gun all day long. A projected first round draft pick in this June's amateur draft, Crockett attracted a throng of scouts who stood in the bleachers Friday-radar guns in hand-charting his every pitch.
If that was not enough cause for jitters, Crockett also fell behind the eight-ball early when the Elis manufactured a run on a double-steal play in the top of first. His teammates, it turned out, were helpless to bail him out.
Indeed, with all the attention focused on Crockett, Breslow pitched with nothing to lose and ended up outdueling his Harvard counterpart. Breslow, in fact, took a no-hitter into the last of the seventh before a single by Carter finally erased the goose egg in Harvard's hit column.
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