Baseball Heads to Harvard, Dartmouth This Weekend
4/8/2016 1:02:00 PM | Baseball
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THE STORYLINES
COLUMBIA'S STATUS
The Lions are winners of three-straight, sweeping Brown last Sunday and halting St. John's seven-game winning streak Wednesday.
HARVARD'S STATUS
The Crimson have dropped six in a row and were swept at Cornell and Princeton last weekend.
Sophomore John Fallon is hitting .333 with four homer runs and 20 RBI. Matt Rothenberg leads the team, batting .365.
Harvard will send RHP's Nick Gruener (3-2, 3.09 ERA) and Sean Poppen (1-3, 3.56 ERA) to the hill.
INSIDE THE SERIES... HARVARD
Columbia is 61-85-1 all-time against Harvard, but have won seven consecutive games in the series. Last year, the Lions picked up 5-4 and 9-7 victories over the Crimson at Robertson Field at Satow Stadium.
DARTMOUTH'S STATUS
The Big Green suffered a pair of one-run losses to Princeton last weekend before being rained/snowed out at Ithaca. Dartmouth bounced back with a mid-week 2-1 victory over Holy Cross Tuesday.
Matt Feinstein leads the offence hitting .388 in 15 games. Michael Ketchmark has provided the punch, launching three homers and 10 RBI.
Beau Sulser will likely start the opener, checking in at 1-1 with a 3.55 ERA and seven strikouts in 12.2 innings of work. In game two, Clay Chatham will take the ball. Chatham is 0-3 with a 6.41 ERA and 9 strikeouts in 19.2 innings.
INSIDE THE SERIES... DARTMOUTH
Dartmouth leads the all-time series 105-77. The schools have split the last two regular season doubleheaders and met in the last three Ivy League Championship Series'.
RANDELL'S ISLAND
After missing 13 games due to injury, Randell Kanemaru came back with a flourish, going 9-for15 (.600), slugged 1.133 and posted seven RBI in four games against Yale and Brown. For his efforts, he was named Ivy League Player of the Week on April 5.
BIG BART
Junior Kyle Bartelman is also on a tear of late, hitting .387 with two homers and nine RBI in nine games sinces the Lions' came back to the Northeast.
DIRTY HARRY
Sophomore Harrisen Egly moved into a two-way tie for Columbia's career save record after recording the final three outs against St. John's on April 6. Egly now has seven in his one-plus season and is one tied with teammate Adam Cline for the most all-time.
PALLER POWER
Senior Robb Paller was named Ivy League Player of the Week after hitting .423 with five runs and four RBI on the Lions' spring break trip in California. After seeing his 36-game on base streak snapped, he has reached in all 22 games since.
UNLEASH THE SAVAGE
Junior Will Savage has had a tremendous start to 2016. He has reached base in 21 of 23 games this year and leads the conference in hits and is second in on-base percentage. Against Long Beach State on March 20, Savage became the first Lion to record five hits in a game since Dario Pizzano had six at Harvard on Apr. 11, 2010.
