While the venue in which the Harvard baseball team played changed between Saturday and yesterday, the bad results stayed the same. The Crimson (10-22, 6-14 Ivy) got swept by Dartmouth (16-17, 12-8 Ivy) in Hanover, N.H., on Saturday, then came home only to get swept again by the Big Green yesterday at Soldiers Field. Harvard  1  6 Dartmouth  2  8 Dartmouth  .6  6 Harvard  4  1

On both days, close first games were followed by not-so-close second games. On Saturday, Harvard wasted a fine pitching performance by sophomore Frank Hogan in the opener to lose, 2-1. The Crimson then lost 8-4 in the nightcap.

Harvard lost yesterday's first game 6-4 in eight innings (doubleheaders only have seven innings of regulation), and the second game score was a more lopsided 6-1 contest in Dartmouth's favor.

These games marked the end of the Ivy League season for Harvard, and the Crimson could not overtake Dartmouth for second place in the Red Rolfe Division (Harvard was two games back going into the weekend). But as this disappointing season draws closer and closer to an overall close (the team has only three games left), the players insist that they have not allowed the letdowns to affect their performances.

"We have had so many disappointing losses," freshman outfielder Bret Vankoski said. "But that hasn't kept us from going out and trying hard. There are no real losers on this team, and we'll try to finish the best we can."

Saturday Dartmouth 2, Harvard 1

Hogan followed his excellent performance against Brown last weekend with another gem. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough Saturday as Harvard's bats could not support him.

Hogan (2-2), who has a team low 2.78 ERA, gave up only two runs (both earned) in a six inning complete game effort, giving up eight hits, one walk and striking out six. But the Crimson could only muster six hits and a run off Dartmouth starter Scott Simon.

"We hit the ball well," said sophomore shortstop Mike Hochanadel, who continued his torrid pace of late with a 2-3 day, "But we were hitting the ball right at people."

Vankoski echoed Hochanadel's sentiments.

"It was definitely a tough loss," said Vankoski, who went 1-2 with a walk. "We left too many runners on base [seven]. Frank pitched very well, and we hit the ball well too, but just right back at guys."

Harvard's only run came on junior catcher Dennis Doble's solo home run in the second inning, his first blast of the year. That run tied the game at one after Dartmouth scored in the bottom of the first. But the Big Green scored what would turn out to be the winning run in the bottom of the third.

Dartmouth 8, Harvard 4

This game wasn't close, courtesy of a eight run Big Green explosion from the fourth to sixth innings. Again, the Crimson hit the ball relatively hard (Dartmouth had only nine hits to Harvard's seven), but it wasn't enough. Harvard stranded eight runners, but the opportunistic Big Green left only five runners on base.

"We stranded too many runners," said Vankoski, who drove in a run and drew two walks despite going 0-2, "And they hit the ball a little bit better."

Harvard starter senior Mike Cicero pitched well for the first three innings, holding Dartmouth scoreless. After he gave up three runs in the fourth, the Crimson came back to score two to draw the game at three apiece in the top of the fifth. But the Big Green scored two in the fifth off Cicero, and he could not get out off the sixth. By the time senior Ben Allen closed the sixth (in which the Crimson committed a run-contributing error), the score was 8-4.