Baseball Ends Trip With Split

The Harvard baseball team just ran out of hits.

After racking up 13 runs on 16 hits in a dominant 13-5 win over Lehigh to open the day, the Crimson (3-2) fell 4-0 to Bucknell to split the final two games of its Florida road trip in Bradenton yesterday.

In the first game, Harvard took a 6-0 first-inning lead, but the Mountain Hawks (1-2) rallied back, roughing up Harvard starting pitcher freshman Wes Cosgriff for five runs. But with the Crimson clinging to a 6-5 lead, freshman Matt Brunnig (1-0) came in to relieve Cosgriff and silenced the Lehigh bats. In three innings of work, Brunning allowed only three hits and struck out nine.

Harvard scored in six of the next eight frames to pull away.

Sophomore designated hitter Schuyler Mann opened the day with a first-inning grand slam. It was Mann’s second homerun of the weekend.

Lehigh’s Ryan Dodds (0-1) took the loss.

In the second game, junior Trey Hendricks took the mound against Bucknell (1-1). Hendricks (0-1) threw 7.1 solid innings in the loss, allowing only one earned run while striking out nine Bison batters, but received little help from his defense.

The Crimson made five errors to allow two unearned runs. It was the second time in two days that Harvard posted five errors.

“Trey pitched really well,” Mann said. “They shouldn’t have gotten any runs off of him.”

One Crimson infielder who played well all weekend was freshman Zack Farkes. In his collegiate debut, Farkes did not make an error in any of the five games.

“Zack Farkes has played solidly defensively for us,” captain Barry Wahlberg said on Sunday.

Bucknell starting pitcher Kevin Miller (1-0) took the win, tossing a complete-game six hitter while striking out eight.

“I think [Miller] probably pitched the game of his life,” Mann said. “He was hitting all of his spots. We were getting hits, we just couldn’t string them together.”

Harvard only managed one hit through the first four innings—a double by Hendricks in the fourth.

Senior catcher Brian Lentz and sophomore shortstop Ian Wallace finished with two singles apiece for the Crimson.

Harvard next plays a doubleheader at Sacred Heart beinning at 12 p.m. on Saturday, before returning to Florida to play 10 games in Boca Raton and Homestead over Spring Break.

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