SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON

Just a day after suffering one of its most heartbreaking losses of the season, the Harvard baseball team rebounded with perhaps its best all-around effort of the year.

Harvard took the lead early and rode strong pitching the rest of the way in trouncing a quality Boston College squad, 6-1, yesterday at a blustery Eddie Pellagrini Diamond. It was the Crimson's (13-19, 7-5 Ivy) fourth win in its past five games.

"I'm real happy with our performance," Coach Joe Walsh said. "We had quality defense, pitching and hitting in the same game for the first time this year."

The win came a day after Harvard's 4-2 loss to Northeastern, a game which ended when Husky outfielder Todd Korchin's leaping, over-the-wall-catch robbed left fielder Javy Lopez of a go-ahead home-run.

Harvard took the lead for goo d in its first at-bat against the Eagles (18-17). Senior outfielder Scott Carmack led off the game with a double to right center, and scored two batters later on a wild pitch by Eagle starter Matthew Duffey.

The Crimson scored the winning run in the second on catcher Brian Lentz's solo home run, his third of the year. Lentz, who's been on a hot sreak of late, took an inside fastball from Duffey and lined a shot down the left field line. Lentz finished the game 3-for-4 with a pair of RBI.

That would be all Harvard would need, as three Crimson pitchers combined to silence the normally potent B.C. bats, allowing only four hits for the game.