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Highlights Team wins its sixth Red Rolfe title in eight seasons. Senior catcher Brian Lentz returns from season off to bat .373 and be named first team All-Ivy. Freshman Zak Farkes named Ivy Rookie of the Year...
Lentz earned first-team All-Ivy honors again as a catcher and has also been named a Division I second-team All-Star by the New England Intercollegiate Baseball Coaches Association. Lentz was the only Harvard player to be so honored...
...start of the year, Harvard coach Joe Walsh knew that he would need to find a way to play both Lentz and sophomore Schuyler Mann, both of whom excel defensively behind the plate. While Walsh wanted to platoon Lentz and Mann at catcher, he needed both bats in the lineup. Lentz learned how to play first base and the outfield in order to stay on the field with Mann. But when junior Trey Hendricks went down with a season-ending injury with two weeks remaining in the regular season, Lentz’s versatility became invaluable...
...thought Lentz was our most consistent ballplayer all year long,” Walsh said. “It’s easy to forget that he played first base and the outfield for us in a year that he was being looked at by scouts as a defensive catcher. That he was willing to go and do that for us so we could get Schuyler’s bat in the lineup was pretty unselfish for a senior...
Lentz’s defensive dominance as a catcher truly separates him as a player...