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Weston Eberly
Columbia University Athletics/Mike McLaughlin
9
Columbia COL 17-11, 7-3 Ivy
10
Winner Princeton PRIN 12-17, 6-4 Ivy
Columbia COL
17-11, 7-3 Ivy
9
Final
10
Princeton PRIN
12-17, 6-4 Ivy
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Columbia COL 0 3 3 1 0 1 1 0 0 9 13 2
Princeton PRIN 0 5 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 10 13 0

W: J. Kim (5-1) L: Tucker, Justin (0-2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Suffers Walk-Off Loss To Princeton

Eberly records first multi-home run game of his career

PRINCETON, N.J. — Columbia baseball fell to Princeton, 10-9, in walk-off fashion on Friday at Clarke Field in the series opener.

The loss snaps Columbia's five-game winning streak and it's the first walk-off loss the Lions have suffered this season. With the bases loaded and nobody out in the bottom of the ninth, Princeton's Jake Bold singled off Griffin Palfrey's glove on the right side of the infield to bring home the winning run off Justin Tucker. 

Columbia (17-12, 7-3) led at three different points in Friday's game but Princeton (13-16, 6-4) kept fighting back for its first walk-off win of the year. Lions starting pitcher Andy Leon battled for five innings, allowing seven runs on seven hits while striking out three.

Palfrey, Andy Blake, Weston Eberly, and Jack Kail all had multi-RBI games for Columbia. Eberly led the way with three RBIs after hitting two solo home runs. 

Palfrey extended his hitting streak to seven games in the second inning and opened the day's scoring with an RBI single that scored Seth Dardar. The next batter later, Blake singled in Cole Hage and Anton Lazits to make it 3-0. Lazits reached base four times and scored twice.

Princeton responded with a five-run inning in the home second. The Tigers homered, singled twice, and tripled off Leon in the inning to take a 5-3 lead.

Columbia went back in front in the third inning after Eberly hit his first home run of the game and then Kail singled in Lazits and Dardar with two outs. Eberly's solid day at the plate continued the next inning when he drove in his second run of the game that scored Blake and expanded Columbia's lead to 7-5.

The Tigers came back again to tie the game at 7-7 in the bottom of the fourth when Princeton reached on a pair of fielder's choices to bring in the two runs. 

Eberly's second solo home run of the game in the sixth inning put Columbia ahead 8-7. It was Eberly's first career multi-home run game and he now has seven long balls on the season.

Following Eberly's home run in the sixth, Palfrey reached on a fielder's choice in the seventh that scored Skye Selinsky and gave the Lions a 9-7 lead.

Princeton tied the game in the bottom of the eighth with two runs on a groundout and then a single off Will Parkinson. Parkinson then stranded the go-ahead runner to keep the game tied going to the ninth. The left-handed reliever threw three innings and allowed two runs on four hits and struck out three.

Columbia and Princeton will play a doubleheader on Sunday at Clarke Field to close out the series. First pitch in game one is set for 11:30 a.m. with both games airing on ESPN+.

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