The Harvard baseball team demonstrated its resilience yesterday, bouncing back from a 12-0 loss in the first game of a doubleheader against Cornell to take the second game 3-1.

In the first game, the Crimson could do nothing right. But instead of packing it in for game two, Harvard gave a lesson in resolve. Junior Trey Hendricks pitched phenomenally while senior Brian Lentz and freshman second baseman Zak Farkes came up with the necessary clutch hits as the Crimson triumphed 3-1.

Harvard (8-13, 3-3 Ivy) split its third Ivy doubleheader of the year in three chances. The Crimson won the first game and lost the second at Penn and at Columbia on April 5 and 6, respectively.

“One of the hardest things in baseball is to sweep a doubleheader,” Farkes said. “It takes a total team effort.”

Harvard 3, Cornell 1

Before the weekend began, Harvard coach Joe Walsh was looking forward to this game. Instead of juggling his pitching lineup when Saturday’s doubleheader against Princeton was cancelled, Walsh made certain that his junior ace would match up against Chris Schutt, Cornell’s star pitcher.

In front of nearly 15 major league scouts who came to see Schutt, Hendricks outdueled the Big Red stopper, pitching eight full innings and allowing only one run on seven hits while striking out 11. Schutt, too, pitched very well, striking out 11 and not allowing a hit through six innings. However, in the seventh, the Crimson finally got to Schutt, whom Walsh described as “a big-time major league prospect.”

The Big Red (10-12, 3-5 Ivy) took the game’s first lead in the top of the seventh on Jon Finch’s two-out, two-strike double to left-center that drove in a run.

Cornell’s advantage, however, was short-lived.

Farkes led off the Harvard half of the inning with a fly ball to right field that got hung up in a strong wind and fell in for a double. Lentz followed with a hard-hit ball to second that passed the lunge of Big Red second baseman Seth Gordon. It was a rough stretch for Gordon, who struck out to the end the top half of the seventh, failing to drive in Finch from second. Farkes raced home from second to tie the game at one.

“That was a big hit up the middle by Lentz,” Walsh said.

Hendricks helped his own cause, singling to right on the very next pitch, sending Lentz to third. Schutt bared down and struck out sophomore Schuyler Mann for the inning’s first out, but hit freshman third baseman Josh Klimkiewicz to load the bases.

The next batter, sophomore shortstop Ian Wallace, hit a sharp grounder to Cornell’s Jim Jackson at third. Jackson immediately fired home for the force out, and catcher Matt Goodson rifled it to first for a potential double play. Wallace, however, was hustling down the line and disrupted the throw as it neared first baseman Michael Weiss. The ball tipped off Weiss’ glove and rolled into right field, allowing Hendricks to score the go-ahead run from second.

“Wallace hurried down the line and forced the first baseman to miss the throw,” Walsh said. “That was a big play in the game.”

The Crimson added an insurance run in the bottom of the eighth. With one out, freshman leadoff hitter and rightfielder Lance Salsgiver singled to right and advanced to second as the ball got by Cornell rightfielder Mike Martino. Farkes, hitting second, delivered again, knocking in Salsgiver with a sharp double to right-center.