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Jack Kail
Columbia University Athletics/Mike McLaughlin
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Columbia COL 23-16, 11-7 Ivy
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Winner Harvard HARV 17-21, 13-5 Ivy
Columbia COL
23-16, 11-7 Ivy
3
Final
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Harvard HARV
17-21, 13-5 Ivy
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Columbia COL 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 3
Harvard HARV 0 2 1 6 1 0 0 3 X 13 16 0

W: Driver, Jay (2-2) L: Madrigal, Brandon (2-2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Drops Series Finale At Harvard

Lions get swept by the Crimson

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Columbia baseball was defeated by Harvard, 13-3, on Saturday at O'Donnell Field.

This marks the first time since 2006 that Columbia (23-16, 11-7) has been swept in an Ivy League series of three games or more. Columbia is the final Ivy League team to be swept in three games since the new conference schedule format changed in 2018.

The Crimson outscored the Lions 23-9 in the series. Harvard outhit Columbia 16-5 on Saturday. With the win, Harvard (17-21, 13-5) clinched a spot in the four-team Ivy League tournament. Columbia can clinch its berth in the tournament if Yale loses to Princeton on Monday. 

For the third-straight game, Harvard scored first. The Crimson scratched across two unearned runs in the home second to take a 2-0 lead. A throwing error and then a fielding error allowed Harvard to get on the board first.

In the top of the third, Columbia scored its first run of the day on a Griffin Palfrey RBI double that scored John San Jule from first base. The next half inning, Harvard got the run back on a solo home run by Logan Bravo to give the Crimson a 3-1 lead. 

Jack Kail answered in the fourth inning with a two-run single with two outs to tie the game at 3-3. Cole Hage and Weston Eberly scored before Kail was thrown out at second trying to take the extra base. 

Harvard opened up a 9-3 lead in the bottom of the fourth by scoring six runs on five hits. Zach Brown added a solo home run to push Harvard's lead to 10-3 in the fifth inning. 

With a walk to leadoff the sixth inning, Andy Blake extended his on-base streak to 39 games. He is eight games away from tying the program record for longest on-base streak.

The Crimson tacked on three more runs in the eighth to take a 10-run lead into the ninth.

Lions starting pitcher Brandon Madrigal went 3.1 innings and allowed five earned runs on six hits with four strikeouts. Madrigal was tagged with his second loss of the season. Camron Hubble pitched two scoreless innings out of the bullpen. 

Columbia hosts St. John's on Tuesday at 1 p.m. from Robertson Field at Satow Stadium in the final home game of the regular season.

For the latest on Columbia baseball, follow @CULionsBaseball on Twitter and Instagram, and the web at GoColumbiaLions.com.
 
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