CLOSER BY COMMITTEE

Three different pitchers closed games for Harvard this weekend.

Hendricks picked up his second save of the year when he pitched a perfect ninth to seal the Game 1 win against Columbia on Friday.

Then in the second game, sophomore right fielder Lance Salsgiver made only his second pitching appearance of the season, allowing a leadoff home run before striking out two batters in one inning of work.

Ambidextrous sophomore Matt Brunnig—who is usually one of the squad’s weekend starters as a right-hander—was suffering from a sore elbow, and didn’t make an appearance until the final out of Game 2 against Penn on Saturday.

Walsh brought in Brunnig to throw left-handed against the left-handed Nate Moffie, Penn’s all-Ivy candidate and top hitter. Brunnig got an easy flyout to end the inning.

SHORT HOPS

After blasting his seventh home run of the season on Saturday, Farkes remains atop the league standings in home runs. Tied with Farkes is Penn centerfielder Nate Moffie, who hit two homers in a doubleheader against Dartmouth on Friday….Speaking of Moffie, the All-Ivy candidate was held to a dismal 0-6 showing against the Crimson on Saturday, including an 0-4, two strikeout performance against Hendricks in the second game….Despite sweeping all four games this weekend, the Crimson only has a two-game lead in the Red Rolfe standings. That’s because each of the other three Red Rolfe teams went 3-1 on the weekend. Overall, the Red Rolfe was 13-3 against the Lou Gehrig this weekend….Klimkiewicz, who didn’t see any action this weekend save for one pinch hit at-bat in Game 2 against Penn, could see a return to the lineup in one of the Crimson’s two midweek games. Brunnig (right elbow) should be back in the rotation as a right-hander this weekend.

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