Perry threw mostly fastballs, and with a chilly, damp wind whipping in, hard flies were dying short.

“We obviously could’ve used a few more line-drives, base hits, and scratched a few runs together,” Hale said. “It didn’t happen for us.”

“Other than that,” he said, “we played our asses off.”

Harvard managed only five hits, and Perry walked only one. And for the first time in two days, sophomore star Farkes—Harvard’s career home run leader, with 22—failed to go deep in a game.

Sophomore Frank Herrmann (4-3) started the game and gave up two runs and two hits in 4 2/3 innings, getting the loss. Dartmouth shortstop Ed Lucas, held in check by Harvard pitchers all weekend, was 1-for-4 with 3 RBI.

“I guess, sort of, the well was dry,” Hale said. “Our big bats were getting hits all weekend for us. And they just didn’t fall today.”

HARVARD 5, DARTMOUTH 0

Hendricks, one day removed from a nightmare 60-pitch, six-run outing in two innings on Saturday, came back and beat the Big Green on Sunday in a gutsy, memorable Game 3 performance.

Hendricks (9-2) threw a complete game shutout—his first of the season—and willed the Crimson over Dartmouth, 5-0, mixing a knee-buckling curve with pinpoint accuracy.

The Ivy League Player of the Year candidate, a senior from Houston, scattered six hits—two of which were on bunts, and not one was for extra bases—throwing an overwhelming majority of pitches for strikes.

Hendricks’ efficiency paid off, as he walked none.

Only one batter reached past second base.

“He wanted the ball for the second game today,” Walsh said of the preternaturally competitive Hendricks, a team captain. “I had to walk away from him because he just kept talking and he probably would have talked me into it.”

Hendricks had help, of course, from the same old cast of characters who had been terrorizing Dartmouth pitching all weekend.

Mann hit a solo blast to left on the first pitch he saw from Big Green ace Tim Grant, his third in as many games.