In the ninth, Peay struck out freshman pinch hitter Schuyler Mann and Sheffield to begin the inning. Down to its last out, the Crimson would not go away without a fight. Freshman Ian Wallace doubled to center, giving Shakir a chance to tie the game with a single.

Shakir bounced a ball just past the first base bag for a near double but solid Dartmouth defense prevailed again. Miluesnic stabbed his glove to his left and came up with the ball cleanly. He flipped the ball to Peay covering first for the final out of the game.

“We haven’t gotten any breaks all year,” Walsh said. “I thought San Salvador’s hit was going to drive in Nick and then Shakir didn’t get a friendly bounce to end the game. It could have been a different result...but that’s ok. We’ve been playing good, controlled baseball.”

HARVARD 3, DARTMOUTH 2

Harvard rode the arm of starter Sheffield for five innings and got solid relief performances from Ronz and junior Barry Wahlberg to clinch a share of the Red Rolfe crown with Brown.

The Crimson took a 1-0 lead on the first pitch of the game, when senior Mark Mager jumped on a fastball and drove it over the left-field wall for a leadoff home run.

Dartmouth responded with two in the fourth to take the lead. With the bases loaded and no outs, Sheffield got Lucas to ground into a bases-loaded double-play, scoring Chapin and sending sophomore Scott Shirell to third. One pitch later, Shirell scored when Sheffield’s pitch got by sophomore catcher Mickey Kropf.

The Big Green, however, would not hold onto the lead for long. San Salvador cracked a 400-foot double to deep left-center, a shot that would have been well over the fence at Harvard’s O’Donnell Field. Sophomore Bryan Hale followed with a bloop double to left field, moving San Salvador to third with no outs. Mager lined a single to left to tie the game at 2-2, moving Hale to third. A Shakir sacrifice fly gave Harvard a 3-2 lead that would not be relinquished.

Dartmouth threatened in the bottom of the sixth inning, putting runners on first and second with nobody out. Walsh called upon his southpaw Ronz to get his team out of a jam with a left-handed batter at the plate. Ronz got Miluesnic to pop out and left the game immediately afterward for Wahlberg.

The junior closer walked one with two outs to load the bases but struck out DaCosta with the game on the line to silence the Big Green bats. Wahlberg worked a perfect seventh to secure the Harvard win.

HARVARD 5, DARTMOUTH 1

It was typical Ben Crockett in Game Two of Saturday’s doubleheader at O’Donnell Field in Cambridge. The senior right-hander pitched a complete game, striking out 13 Dartmouth hitters en route to victory.

Harvard scored three runs in the first inning and would not look back. Carter singled to left with the bases loaded and one out, driving in Wallace and Shakir. Mager added a run, stealing home when Carter bolted for second base on a designed double steal. Mager waited for the throw to second and dashed for home, just barely avoiding the tag on the return throw to the plate from Dartmouth shortstop Matt Klentak.