Big Green Beaten in Series Finale Against Harvard

Sunday, April 9

Hanover, N.H.

12:00 PM

Dartmouth College

1-23, 0-9

Harvard

11-16, 7-2

Harvard

Dartmouth

Devin Milberg threw three shutout innings in his first collegiate start

Photo by: Mike Janes

Big Green Beaten in Series Finale Against Harvard

4/9/2023 2:42:00 PM | Baseball

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The Crimson scored five times in the fifth to break open a scoreless game

By: Rick Bender

HANOVER, N.H. — Harvard scored five runs in the fifth to break open a scoreless duel and went on to defeat host Dartmouth at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park on Easter Sunday, 9-1. The victory gave the Crimson (11-16, 7-2 Ivy) a series sweep and kept them atop the Ivy League standings with Columbia, while the Big Green lost their 16th straight game to fall to 1-23 on the season and 0-9 in conference play.

Sean Matson (1-2) was nearly untouchable on the mound for Harvard as he faced the minimum through six innings. The only batter to reach in those first six stanzas was sophomore Jackson Hower on an infield single, and he was immediately erased when he was caught stealing. Matson eventually threw a career-long eight innings while surrendering one run on three hits without a walk and a personal-best 10 strikeouts.

Junior Devin Milberg made his first career start on the mound for the Big Green after making 18 relief appearances over the past two seasons, and he matched zeroes with Matson over the first three innings, a career-long for him as well. The left-hander gave up a pair of hits and a walk while striking out two before giving way to classmate Clark Gilmore.

The fourth belonged to Gilmore (1-2) as he gave up just a two-out single. But in the fifth, Harvard loaded the bases with one out on a pair of singles and a hit batter before the first run trotted across the plate when Ben Rounds drew a walk. Logan Bravo greeted senior reliever Luke Carpenter with a two-run single, and one out later, so did Will Jacobsen to make it a 5-0 game.

The Crimson tacked on two more in the sixth, one of which was unearned, and another unearned run in the seventh to open up an 8-0 lead.

Dartmouth was able to dent the scoreboard in its half of the seventh. Senior Peter O'Toole skied a shallow pop into right-center that fell to the turf for a double, sophomore Elliot Krewson singled him to third and pinch-hitter Nico Bañez rolled a grounder to second to bring O'Toole home.

Rounds singled home the final Crimson run of the game in the eighth for his third hit and third RBI of the afternoon, and Tim Williamson tossed a perfect ninth to finish off the Harvard victory.

Dartmouth will next play host to nationally ranked Boston College on Wednesday afternoon at 3 p.m. The game will be streamed live on ESPN+ with Wayne Young '72 and Justin McIsaac calling the action, and live stats will be available on DartmouthSports.com, the official website of Dartmouth Athletics.

Notes: The 16 consecutive losses ties the longest in program history, set originally in 1979 … Harvard pitchers entered the series averaging just over six walks per nine innings but did not issue a single base on balls over the 27 innings played this weekend … the three hits for the Big Green matched a season low … O'Toole extended his hitting streak to five with his seventh-inning double.