Brow started each of the team’s first 34 games at shortstop, anchoring the infield with an impressive .958 fielding percentage, before missing the entirety of last weekend’s division-clinching series against Dartmouth with a virus.

Brown will be in the starting lineup tomorrow—he played five innings in Tuesday’s matchup with Northeastern—and says he should be 100 percent.

“I’m really stoked,” Brown said. “Especially because I look forward to Dartmouth more than anything else. I’m from New Hampshire so that’s the biggest weekend for me. To miss that last weekend was crushingly depressing, so I’m just trying to redirect all of that energy into this weekend.”

Brown’s presence will be appreciated by a Harvard pitching staff that allowed 32 runs, 12 unearned, in four games against Dartmouth.

“Right now our big concern is making sure we can get our pitching back into shape,” Walsh said. “That’s going to be the name of the game [this] weekend.”

SHORTHOPS

In the past, the Gehrig and Rolfe division champions alternated years as the host of the ICS. However, a rule change implemented this season awarded Harvard the right to host on account of its better overall Ivy record…The Big Red opened the Ivy season 1-5 before winning seven of its last nine league contests…Harvard last played in the ICS in 2003, when it lost two of three games to host Princeton. The Crimson last won the ICS in 2002, when it swept Princeton at O’Donnell Field…This will be the first time Harvard has played a team besides the Tigers in its seven trips to the ICS.

—Staff writer Lande A. Spottswood can be reached at spottsw@fas.harvard.edu.