Bruins Shut Down Batswomen

In a pair of games last weekend, the Harvard softball team scored 15 runs while allowing only five.

In two games yesterday, the tables--and the scores--were turned.

The Crimson collected only six hits against Brown pitching as the Bruins shut out Harvard, 1-0 and 10-0, in an Ivy League doubleheader in Providence, R.I.

Harvard's record now drops to 2-4 in the Ivy League, 8-6 overall.

"We're disappointed," Harvard Coach John Wentzell said. "If we could have won the 1-0 game, who knows what could have happened. We just suffered a natural letdown in the second game."

The opening game was a pitching duel. Harvard's Lora Rowning surrendered three hits while Bruin hurler Tracy Goldstein gave up only two.

Brown's run came in the third inning when Susan Tounge hit a sacrifice fly to leftfielder Nancy Prior. The throw to home barely missed nailing Caroline Thronton. Thornton led off the inning with a walk, was sacrificed to second and advanced to third on Teresa Hirshauer's single.

In the fifth inning, the Crimson had a golden opportunity to score when Elizabeth Crowley opened the inning with a double. Co-Captain Gia Barresi's sacrifice to third baseman Tounge resulted in an error that put runners on second and third with no outs.

But Prior's hard line drive to shorstop was caught by Herchauer and the next two Crimson batters popped up to end the inning.

"The fifth inning was really our opportunity," Barresi said. "We just couldn't hit the ball. We kept popping up."

Blowout

Herschauer, the defensive star of the first game, went 3-for-4 and scored twice in the final game, which Brown ran away with, 10-0. Pitcher Lisa Gaulak allowed only four Crimson singles to even the Bruins' Ivy League record at 4-4 (14-12 overall).

"Their pitching did a really good job," Wentzell said. "It was just one of those days."

In the sixth inning, Brown collected five hits and a walk, while capitalizing on Crimson errors, to score six runs.

"We had a bad outing," Barresi said. "I guess we have to pull together and play well against Yale."

The Crimson will see action next Saturday in a double-header against Yale in New Haven, Conn.