The Harvard baseball team made a truncated spring swing through Florida this weekend and returned with mixed results.

In Saturday’s and yesterday’s twinbills against Bethune-Cookman (11-16) in Daytona Beach, Fla., Harvard (4-3) won the opening games and lost the finales, finishing with a 2-2 weekend split.

“We’re a little disappointed that we went out and won the first two games and couldn’t finish,” said junior starting pitcher Frank Herrmann, who earned his second win of the season yesterday. “It just shows you have to keep the focus. You have to stay sharp for seven or eight hours. Hopefully, it’s a lesson for us.”

Junior infielder Zak Farkes, who led the Crimson in home runs in 2004, sat out during the weekend to nurse a strained right shoulder, a measure Herrmann deemed “precautionary.”

In his place, freshman Steffan Wilson provided all the offense the Wildcats could handle. Over four games, the infielder went an astounding 10-for-17 with 10 RBI, four runs scored, and four extra-base hits—including the first two home runs of his collegiate career.

“Even the outs he made were hard outs,” Herrmann said.

With the effort, Wilson raised his average to a team-leading .444 and wowed observers with his quick adjustment to the college game.

“It didn’t take him too long to take his strides,” junior outfielder Lance Salsgiver said.

“Steff,” Herrmann added, “is a force in our lineup.”

The Crimson doesn’t resume play until spring break, when it will split time between Long Island, N.Y., and South Florida, and then open the Ivy League season at Penn.

BETHUNE-COOKMAN 7, HARVARD 2

Freshman Brad Unger, a 6’7, 240-pound righthander who transitioned to the baseball team after the varsity basketball season wrapped up, made the start for Harvard on Sunday afternoon.

He received little help from the defense behind him, however, as five Bethune-Cookman hits and three Crimson errors led to seven unearned runs in the second inning for the Wildcats.

It was the second straight day in which a mistake-prone loss followed a clean Harvard win.

“We weren’t really making the plays and the hits weren’t falling,” said Salsgiver, who had a solid 3-for-4 day at the plate.