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Notebook: Birtwell's Swansong Came Much Too Soon

If he does leave, Crockett would be the second Ivy League hurler in as many years to leave school early. Last spring, Princeton's Chris Young elected to make the jump to the pros after getting drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates.

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Decisions, decisions

Twice this weekend, Dartmouth third baseman Brian Nickerson strode to the plate in the late innings with the game on the line.

Twice Harvard made the wrong decision on how to pitch to him.

In the eighth inning on Saturday, Nickerson stepped to the plate representing the tying run in a 5-2 ballgame.

Walsh trotted to the mound and made the call for a first-pitch changeup.

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