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Harvard’s veteran backstop thinks that the recipe for pitching success this season is simple. “I think the pitchers have the talent they need, it’s just a matter of throwing strikes every time they go out there,” Lentz says...
Morgalis is not the lineup’s only unfamiliar face in this opening series. Returning from a year off is Lentz, who will share the catching role with sophomore Schuyler Mann, one of the Crimson’s offensive sparkplugs last season. The two will divide backstop duties this weekend, with Lentz and Mann scheduled to call three games apiece. Walsh stated that he wants both players in the lineup in every game, putting the off-duty catcher in the DH slot if necessary...
Senior Brian Lentz, the Crimson’s 2000 All-Ivy backstop, returned to Harvard this fall after missing all of the 2002 season, leaving Harvard with arguably the two best catchers in the conference...
...think we have the best backstop tandem in the country,” Walsh said. “Not only are those guys both quality receivers, but they both hit, and they are both tough...
Adrahtas continues to follow Dov’s progress, talking on the phone with him about once a week and checking his games over the internet. He considers his former pupil the prototype at the backstop position...