Quakers Bomp Nine in Twinbill

PHILADELPHIA--Anybody who swears by the maxim "Good pitching will beat out good hitting anytime" would have had a hard time defending it at Hollen-back Field on Saturday afternoon.

In fact, they might have edited the maxim to read "Great" hitting will make any pitching look sick," for when the basepath dust had finally cleared after the second game, the club-thumping, ball-mashing Quakers from Pennsylvania had swept the Harvard baseball team in a doubleheader 11-3 and 8-2.

The whole affair might well have been a two-team slufgest, had Penn not come up with a couple of unusually strong pitching performances from its consistently weak hill staff.

It all came down to disastrous home halves of the second in both games, as Penn's hitters sent Crimson starters Timmy Clifford and Steve Valoff away from the fray early. Both hurlers suffered annoyingly similar wildness and eventually took their first losses of the season.

After two innings of the opener Penn led, 7-0. After the same time lapse in the second game, the Quakers were up 7-1, with Charlie Santos-Buch scoring Harvard's first run as a result of three errors in the first inning.

But the early deficits seemed too strange, almost too imposing for a comeback frame of mind by the Crimson batsmen. Harvard managed only five hits in each game, and outside of Santos-Buch, Mike Stenhouse and Mark Bingham, the last half of the order came up with only one safety on the day, that a pinch-hit double by Peter Bannish in the sixth inning of the first game.

In that inning, the Crimson scored all of its runs for the first game. Santos-Buch led off with a long double to right center and moved to third on a Stenhouse single up lofted a sacrifice fly to center, scoring Santos-Buch. After shortstop Burke St. John reached on a throwing error by Penn infielder Craig Keefer, Bannish pushed Harvard's final two runs home with his two-bagger.

But Quaker hurler Bruce Ballard rode his club's huge lead to a complete game victory, as did Penn starter John Leonard, with an even stronger (eight strikeouts, one earned run) performance in the nightcap.

As were the game results and offensive outbursts, the bat stars for Penn were the same in both contests. Centerfield stud Tom Olszak was the big guy, going four for six with five RBIs and four runs scored. Earl Rom, Al Greenfield, and Dennis Karbach were also conspicuously damaging.

THE NOTEBOOK: Overlooked admist the two Saturday scores was the impressive long relief job done by Ron Stewart in the second game.

Freshman aspirin-chucker Jim Keyte will probably start on the mound for the Crimson this afternoon at Holy Cross.

Harvard is now 3-2 in the Eastern League and can afford only two losses in its next nine league games to snag the title.