B.C. Shells Del Rossi for Eight Runs, Drops Nine from Unbeaten Ranks, 9-6

It was like Christmas at Splinter Stadium yesterday. The weather would have chilled a polar bear, and Harvard's baseball team played Santa Claus with a bag of gifts that included five errors. When the festivities were over, Boston College found itself in possession of a 9-6 victory.

Hoping to clinch his third straight Greater Boston League championship and sustain the team's remarkable 13-game winning streak, coach Norm Shepard started left-handed ace Paul Del Rossi. But almost from the first pitch it was sadly apparent that Big Del was off his game.

A single by lead-off man Bill Mulcahy, followed by a walk to porky Frank DeFelice surprised the small gathering. A line-drive homer to deep left center by Fred Prifty, scoring three runs, shocked everyone, including the Eagles.

Prifty came to Cambridge with unimpressive credentials. His nine singles for the year had produced only one run. When he left the park yesterday he had added two homers, a single, and four RBI's.

The first homer should never have happened. Just before he hit it, he had sent a ball up the elevator shaft on the first base side of the plate. Catcher Gary Miller waved his first baseman away and lost it.

Prifty's second, a 300-foot air-mail delivery to left, might have been a long out. John Dockery got his hands on the wind-blown ball, but lost control when he ran into the swamp basin at the edge of the outfield.

Singles by Dockery and Bobby St. George gave Harvard a run in the fourth, but the Crimson's finest hour came in the sixth. With two out, and Dockery and St. George on base via free passes, Del Rossi whacked a ball half way to the luxury housing development across the Charles River to tie the score. Two more runs were added in the eighth on three walks, a St. George single, and a forced out.

In between these two rallies disaster struck. Boston College sliced four sharp hits off the usually invulnerable Del Rossi, gaining four runs. All were unearned, however, as the hits probably would never have occurred had first baseman Tom Stephenson held onto a throw for what should have been the second out.

A final gift was granted in the eighth. With two out, Tom Bilodeau ended his errorless days by bobbling a sharp bouncer. The mistake became costly when Stephenson dropped another throw on the next play and then threw wildly to the plate.