HARVARD 6, BROWN 5

Way tallied his third hit in Saturday’s opener with a walk-off, solo homer to lead off the seventh inning.

“I was on deck,” said Larrow, who was batting behind Way. “Marcus looked at me and he goes, ‘Would you be mad if you didn’t hit here?’ and I said, ‘No, I probably wouldn’t care that much.’ And he put it out there.”

Way’s homer came off of David St. Lawrence, whose 1-0 fastball was sent over the right field wall, sending Harvard’s players running out from the dugout.

Sophomore shortstop Jake McGuiggan also had three hits in the contest and scored a run on Way’s double in the first.

After junior starter Joey Novak retired the Bears in order in the first, the Crimson opened the scoring when sophomore catcher Steve Dill knocked in sophomore left fielder Jack Colton on a sacrifice groundout.

Brown bounced back with two runs in the next frame, scoring on a bases-loaded walk and then on a fielder’s choice.

Novak allowed three more runs in the top of the fourth inning, but Harvard senior second baseman Jeff Reynolds tied it up again with a ground-rule double to dead center field.

Sophomore captain Andrew Ferreira was impressive in relief, stifling the Bears’ bats for three innings of one-hit, no-run work to earn the win.

In need of a sweep, the Crimson will have to align the offensive power it showed on Saturday with solid defense and pitching when it faces the Big Green for two games at O’Donnell Field next Saturday and two in Hanover, N.H., next Sunday.

“This is the first time I’ve taken three out of four games since I’ve been at Harvard, and I’ve been here three years,” Larrow said. “At least now we know that we can take three out of four, or four out of four.”