Senior second baseman Peter Woodfork has been named the Ivy League Baseball Player of the Week, while freshman second baseman/DH Faiz Shakir has been named the Ivy League Baseball Rookie of the Week.

Woodfork led the Crimson in its last week of play before its pre- NCAA break with a .563 batting average (9-for-16) in four games. After going 1-for-2 in a 6-4 win over Massachusetts, he helped Harvard win its third consecutive Ivy League title by hitting .571 (8-for-14) in a three- game Ivy Championship series against Princeton. As the Crimson beat the Tigers two games to one in the series to earn an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament, Woodfork went 2-for-4, 3-for-5, and 3-for-5. He had three RBI, a double, eight singles, and one run scored.

Always known for his outstanding ability in the field, Woodfork also made the defensive play of the Ivy Championship series when he leaped high into the air from the edge of the outfield grass to snare a line drive from the first Tiger batter of game two. That came after Woodfork played game one as the designated hitter because of a sore right elbow.

The 1995 Boston Globe's Athlete of the Year as a baseball and football star at Swampscott High School, Woodfork is having the best season of his collegiate career in 1999. He is currently second on the team with a .388 batting average (54-for-139), and third in RBI (30), total bases (61), and stolen bases (8). He has played in 43 of the team's 46 games and started 41 contests.

Shakir, a 5-9, 160-pound defensive standout, delivered the biggest hit of the season for the Crimson as Harvard rallied to score three runs in the ninth inning to beat Princeton, 5-4, in game three of the Ivy League Championship series.

With one out and the bases loaded in the top of the ninth, the Tigers held a 4-3 lead as Shakir stepped up to the plate. Hitting in the nine hole and for the first time as a designated hitter, Shakir laced a two-run single to center field for the game-winning RBI. He had driven in just four runs all season prior to that clutch at-bat and, after not playing at all in game two, he was in the lineup in game three on a hunch by Head Coach Joe Walsh and because he is a left-handed hitter. (Princeton started freshman right-hander Tom Rowland; Shakir's ninth-inning single came off Tigers' right-handed reliever Jeff Golden).

Shakir also singled in the fifth inning of game three. Earlier in the week, he went 2-for-2 with a double and two stolen bases in a 6-4 win over Massachusetts.

In 19 games (nine starts) in 1999, Shakir is hitting .379 (11-for-29).

Harvard (28-18 overall, 16-4 Ivy League) must now wait until May 24 to find out which regional it will play in and who it will face when NCAA Tournament play begins May 28. The last two years, the Crimson has finished in third place in regional play among some of the nation's finest competition. In 1997, Harvard defeated U.C.L.A. and Stetson but finished third at the Midwest Regional behind U.C.L.A. and host Oklahoma State. Last year, the Crimson earned wins over Nicholls State and Tulane and was one of the last teams standing with host L.S.U. and Cal State Fullerton at the South II Regional. Those strong showings earned Harvard a top-30 ranking in Collegiate Baseball's final national poll in both 1997 and 1998.