“You’ve really got to win those ugly games to be successful,” said sophomore Zak Farkes, who scored the winning run.

Hendricks (8-1) got the win in relief, his second of the day. Despite having a complete game in Game 1, he entered to pitch the ninth in Game 2 after sophomore Morgan Brown and freshman Rob Nelson failed to stem the Bears’ ninth-inning rally.

“I did not want to bring him in the second game at all,” Walsh said of Hendricks. “But he’s just staring down at me every time, [seeming to say] ‘Put me in, put me in.’ I knew he could come in and throw strikes.”

Sophomore Lance Salsgiver, making his first career start, had control problems and only pitched two innings, surrendering two runs and two walks. Sophomore Javier Castellanos was effective in relief, pitching five innings and striking out seven.

“I thought Javy did a real good job for us,” Walsh said. “He passed it for five innings in the middle, there, gave us a chance to come back, and we did.”

Mann hit two home runs, giving him six for the season. Farkes hit a solo shot, giving him 10—and tying him for the Harvard single-season record for home runs. In his second year on the team, he is already three short of the career record of 21.

HARVARD 5, BROWN 2

Hendricks pitched seven effective innings in Game 1 of yesterday’s doubleheader, earning a 5-2 complete game win over Brown.

Farkes went 3-for-4 for the Crimson, and Mackey hit his first home run of the year. Mann, who went 5-for-8 on Saturday, continued his hot hitting with a first-inning RBI single. “I felt confident coming in after a day like yesterday,” Mann said.

Mann raised his season average to .300 with yesterday’s performance. The junior from Corvallis, Mont., is doing his best hitting of the year at late season.

“He’s swinging the bat real well,” Walsh said. “He’s patient up there up at the plate.”

The Crimson scored two in the first off of Mann’s single and an RBI double by Hendricks. And thanks to the latter’s continued reliability on the mound, the team never relinquished the lead.

After Brown shortstop Jeff Nichols led off the second with a solo shot to left field, Hendricks didn’t allow an earned run for the rest of the game.

The Crimson stretched its lead to 4-1 in the second, when Bryan Hale reached on a leadoff triple, and a hit-batsman and walk loaded the bases for Farkes, who grounded a 2-2 pitch up the middle for a two-RBI single.

The teams traded runs in the fourth, with Harvard’s coming on Mackey’s home run.