Sports Shorts

Right-handed fireballer Larry Brown hopes to lead the Crimson baseball team out of its recent slump when he puts his 7-0 record on the line against Navy this afternoon in an Eastern League contest at Soldiers Field.

Harvard has lost four straight games since Brown won a 3-1 decision at Columbia one week ago. The Crimson nine's EIBL record stands at 3-2.

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Despite Mike Faught's record-tying nine-goal performance at UNH Wednesday, senior attackman Steve Martin still leads the lacrosse team in scoring 45 points (21 goals, 24 assists). Faught trails with 35-6-41, while middie Pete Predun already has 12-18-30, matching his output for all of last season, when he was named an honorable mention all-American.

Martin--who has moved into fourth place on the Harvard career point list this year--also leads the Ivy League in scoring, with 11 goals and nine assists for 20 points. Faught stands second with 17-2-19, while Predun is sixth with 4-8-12.

Brown upset Princeton Wednesday to drop the Tigers to 2-1, and put the 3-1 Crimson into second place behind 4-0 Cornell. Harvard takes on the Tigers at home Saturday.

In tennis, the Crimson racquetmen are preparing for the New England Championships at Amherst this weekend, where they will have to play minus the services of captain Todd Lundy, out with sore ribs.

Harvard won the New Englands for 12 straight years, before Yale took the crown last spring.

In other league news, Columbia defeated Penn, 6 1/2-2 1/2, Wednesday, to raise their record to 6-2 and to keep alive their slim title hopes. Harvard (4-0), Princeton (4-0), and Yale (6-1) look to be the only serious contenders for the title, though. Harvard has yet to play the Tigers or the Elis, while Princeton faces Columbia on the Lions' courts this Saturday.