NEW YORK — The latest edition of Lions on the Road covers events taking place away from home from April 21-25. This includes baseball, track & field, lacrosse, women's tennis, and lightweight rowing.
Fans looking for information related to the Ivy League Men's & Women's Golf Championships, as well as Archery's U.S. Target Regionals can find those previews and event information separately on GoColumbiaLions.com.
Every week, GoColumbiaLions.com will be using "Lions on the Road" to preview that week's upcoming games and events happening off campus. Be sure to access each team's website on gameday to keep up with all of the action as it happens.
TRACK & FIELD
The Lions continue their outdoor campaign this weekend, and will be sending student-athletes to compete in two more meets. The first will begin on Friday, with the majority of the team headed to Charlottesville, Virginia to compete in the Virginia Challenge which kicks off at 10 a.m. It will be a two day event, continuing on Saturday which is also when the Mark Young Invitational will take place with a subset of Columbia student-athletes set to attend. The Lions will look to continue their strong running which continued last weekend with multiple event winners at the UConn Northeast Challenge. In addition to all this, Columbia's top mid and distance runners will compete at the Wake Forest Invitational.
| Day |
Event |
Location |
Start Time |
Live Results |
| Friday-Saturday |
Virginia Challenge |
Charlottesville, Va. |
10:00 a.m. |
HERE |
| Saturday |
Mark Young Invitational |
New Haven, Conn. |
10:00 a.m. |
HERE |
| Friday |
Wake Forest Invitational |
Winston-Salem, N.C. |
Noon |
HERE |
WOMEN'S TENNIS
The Lions wrap up the regular season schedule this weekend with a road trip for matches at Yale and Brown. Columbia will get the weekend started with a 1 p.m. match at Yale on Saturday. The Lions will cap the weekend off with a 1 p.m. match at No. 69 Brown on Sunday. Columbia enters the weekend with a 10-7 overall record and a 4-1 mark in Ivy League play. The Lions have won three-straight after defeating No. 72 Harvard, 4-3 at home on Sunday. Columbia is currently tied for second place in the conference with Brown as both teams are 4-1 in the Ivy League. Princeton leads the conference with a 5-0 mark.
| Day |
Opponent |
Location |
Start Time |
Live Stats |
| Saturday |
Yale |
New Haven, Conn. |
1 p.m. |
N/A |
| Sunday |
#69 Brown |
Providence, R.I. |
1 p.m. |
Click Here |
LACROSSE
The lacrosse team is back in action this weekend, taking on Ivy League rival Harvard on Saturday in Cambridge, Massachusets. The Lions will be searching for their first conference victory, after going to battle with Dartmouth last weekend at Kraft Field but coming up short.
Gianna Danese,
Annalisa Massaro, and
Dani Falcone each had two goals to lead the Columbia.
Cecelia Messner still leads the team in goals and points in her rookie season with 24 and 29, respectively.
| Day |
Opponent |
Location |
Start Time |
Video |
Live Stats |
| Saturday |
Harvard |
Cambridge, Mass |
2:00 p.m. |
HERE |
HERE |
LIGHTWEIGHT ROWING
The No. 1 Lions travel to Ithaca, N.Y. to race against No. 8 Cornell in the Geiger Cup. At last year's Geiger Cup at Overpeck Park, Columbia competed against No. 2 Cornell and Iona. Cornell defeated Columbia's First Varsity Eight team by just two seconds. The Lions' Second Varsity Eight defeated Cornell by four seconds. Last Saturday, Columbia was victorious for the second-straight weekend as the Lions took the Dodge Cup over Penn and Yale. The first varsity eight race included a photo finish that Columbia won by a bow ball. The Lions also won the inaugural Charles P. Colgan Cup for team points. Colgan was a Penn rower who later coached at Columbia. The lightweight team
ranked No. 1 in the week three IRCA/IRA Coaches Poll, the Awards & Polling Committee announced on Wednesday.
| Day |
Event |
Location |
Start Time |
| Sunday |
Geiger Cup |
Ithaca, N.Y. |
8:30 a.m. |
BASEBALL
Following a three-game series this weekend from Robertson Field at Satow Stadium with Dartmouth, the Lions travel to West Point for a midweek matchup with the Black Knights.
| Day |
Opponent |
Location |
Start Time |
Live Stats |
| Tuesday |
Army West Point |
West Point, N.Y. |
6 p.m. |
Click Here |
