Harvard pulled within one in the bottom of the sixth. On a 2-0 count, Kregel saw a pitch he liked and launched it just short of the wall in right-center for a double.Kregel would eventually be tagged out attempting to score after a failed squeeze attempt. But BC miscues bailed the Crimson out, as an error followed by a bases-loaded hit batsman plated junior catcher Ethan Ferreira.

At this point, the Crimson had scored three runs on just three hits. Offense was hard to come by for Harvard all game—Kregel and Colton notched four of the team’s six total hits—and the top three hitters in the lineup went a combined 0-for-11.

It was the other way around for BC. Each of the team’s nine hits came from the third through sixth hitters, highlighted by a four-for-five performance from cleanup hitter Chris Shaw.

But Harvard’s scrappiness, timing, and a bit of good fortune—especially in the eighth—allowed the home team to finally pull ahead. Sophomore pitcher Sean Poppen took the hill in the ninth, and although he allowed a run, the team’s ace had enough gas to secure the save and notch the win for his team.

“It’s just about stringing hits together, not giving up, and putting the ball in play,” Kregel said. “Stuff like that, it’s baseball. You can’t ever give up, and I don’t think we did that today.”

—Staff writer David Steinbach can be reached at david.steinbach@thecrimson.com.