Indians Crunch Nine, 5-0

The Dartmouth baseball team jumped on Harvard pitcher Ray Peters for three runs in the fourth inning, added two more in the fifth, and coasted in from there to win a wet 5-0 baseball game yesterday in the rain at Splinter Stadium.

The Indians took advantage of the sophomore hurler's wildness to capture their fourth victory in Eastern League play against only one loss. The Crimson are now 4-3 in the League, 8-7 overall.

Peters walked four in his five-inning stint -- two in each of the visitors' big rallies. He only gave up five hits but, due to the walks, each hit was costly.

Fanning four through the first three innings, Peters seemed to be on his way to his seventh win of the season, but instead ended up dropping his third decision. His wildness started to flare up in the fourth, when, with one out, he walked Dartmouth's Bruce Smith and Paul Minkus. Smith was erased on a fielder's choice but pinch-hitter Dale Achenbach drilled a single to left field driving in Mikus. Indian pitcher Jim Shaw, who went all the way to win his fifth game of the year, helped his own cause with an opposite-field single past Crimson second baseman Dick Manchester's outstretched glove, sending two more tallies across the plate.

In the fifth the visitors took up where they had left off, or rather Peters took up where he had left off, walking the first two batters he faced. He got two quick outs before Mikus, falling away from the plate, blooped a single into left field scoring the final two Indian runs.

Senior southpaw Jim McCandlish held Dartmouth scoreless the rest of the way, giving up just two hits in a strong relief showing.

While Peters was having his troubles on the mound. Harvard's batsmen were having their own difficulties with Shaw. The lanky left-hander never let a Crimson runner past second base, scattering six singles in the nine innings. Phil Smith and Pete Karegeannes had two safeties apiece to pace the Harvard hitters.

Dartmouth freshman hurler Chuck Seelbach dealt the Yardling nine its first loss of the year, yielding just one hit en route to a 2-1 victory. Seelbach walked eight and struck out 13 in an erratic but affective performance.

The Crimson JV's made it a perfect day, blowing a 4-1 lead, and eventually losing to the Boston College freshman team, 6-4, in a five-inning contest abbreviated by the rain. B.C. made only two hits, scoring five runs in the fourth inning without a single safety.