NEW YORK — Spring sports are in full bloom, as 11 Columbia Athletics programs hit the road this Friday through next Wednesday, April 12. 

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.
 
  MEN'S TENNIS
The Columbia men's tennis team will get its Ivy League schedule started Friday with a match on the road at No. 50 Princeton. The Lions are coming off a pair of 7-0 sweeps last Saturday. Columbia defeated Hofstra and Bryant in a doubleheader to improve to 13-2 overall this season. Friday's match will be the first of the Ivy League schedule even though the Lions have played Harvard (twice), Dartmouth and Penn this season as part of the ECAC Championship run. Columbia defeated Princeton, 4-3 last season in New York.
 

Day	Opponent	Location	Start Time	Live Stats
Friday	#50 Princeton	Princeton, N.J.	2 p.m.	Click Here

 
 
  LIGHTWEIGHT ROWING
The No. 7 Lions take on No. 3 Navy in the WIT Cup in Annapolis, Md. on Saturday. The first race is set for 7:45 a.m. with the First Varsity Eight race scheduled for 8:30 a.m. At last year's event at Overpeck Park, he No. 2 ranked Navy lightweight team captured the WIT Cup with a four-second victory over Columbia in a head-to-head First Varsity Eight race. Last week, the lightweight team raced against Princeton and Georgetown in the National Collegiate Lightweight Invitational. The Lions dropped all three races to Princeton. However, Columbia picked up a pair of first-place finishes in the second and third varsity eight against Georgetown. Columbia races against Dartmouth in the Subin Cup on Sunday at Overpeck Park.
 

Day	Opponent	Location	Start Time
Saturday	No. 3 Navy	Annapolis, Md.	7:45 a.m.

 
  HEAVYWEIGHT ROWING
The No. 19 Lions race against No. 14 Penn and No. 9 Princeton in the Childs Cup at Schuylkill River. The first race is set for 9 a.m. Last Saturday, Columbia held its home opener against Rutgers for the Collins Cup. The Lions swept both races by a wide margin at Overpeck Park. Columbia won the trophy for the 17th consecutive year. Last season's Child's Cup was canceled due to COVID-19 protocols.
 

Day	Opponent	Location	Start Time
Friday	No. 14 Penn / No. 9 Princeton	Philadelphia, Pa.	9:00 a.m.

  MEN'S GOLF
The men's golf team will compete in the two-day, 54-hole Princeton Invitational this Saturday at Sunday at Springdale Golf Club in Princeton. Play will begin at 7:45 a.m., Saturday and 8:30 a.m., Sunday with the course at a par of 71 and a length of 6,444 yards. The Lions are coming off a second-place performance at their Columbia Spring Invitational on Monday. Alvin Kwak's 36-hole collegiate-low 2-under-par 138 led the way. Kwak finished runner-up individually.
 

Day	Event	Location	Start Time	Live Results
Saturday-Sunday	Princeton Invitational	Princeton, N.J.	All Day	Golfstat

  TRACK & FIELD
The outdoor track & field team is back at it on Saturday, taking part in the Mets Outdoor Championship at Icahn Stadium on Randall's Island. The Lions are coming off one of their best weekends of the season last weekend, as the men's team came in first place at the Colonial Relays in Virginia, while the women finished in fifth place. Chris Balthazar helped Columbia beat out 38 other schools with two first place finishes, including a program record in the 100m dash. Yoosang Kim and McKinlee Morris also set school records in the event. Columbia will look to keep the momentum going this weekend. 
 

Day	Opponent	Location	Start Time
Saturday	Mets Outdoor Championships	Randall's Island	10 a.m.

   

  BASEBALL
The Lions hit the road after completing a 7-2 homestand. Columbia is coming off a 19-14 win over No. 19 UConn on Tuesday in which they were down 12-0 in the second inning. The Lions now have three wins over ranked teams this season. Griffin Palfrey, Cole Hage, and Skye Selinsky all had four hits on the day. Andy Blake homered twice and drove in a career-high five runs. Hage also hit two home runs and tied his career-high with six RBIs. Blake has reached base in all 24 games this season while Palfrey extended his on-base streak to 20 games. Yale enters this weekend's series at 9-13 (4-2) and Fordham is 12-17 (1-2) ahead of its weekend series with Rhode Island. Columbia leads the Ivy League in nearly every offensive category

Columbia is averaging 9.2 runs per game which ranks 14th in the country and has scored 15 runs in seven games this season. The Lions are 10th in the country in slugging percentage (.547) and 18th in the country in batting average (.317). Palfrey's .412 batting average leads the conference and ranks tied for 35th nationally.
 

Day	Opponent	Location	Start Time	Watch	Live Stats
Saturday	Yale	New Haven, Conn.	11:30 a.m.	ESPN+	Click Here
Saturday	Yale	New Haven, Conn.	3:30 p.m.	ESPN+	Click Here
Sunday	Yale	New Haven, Conn.	12:00 p.m.	ESPN+	Click Here
Wednesday	Fordham	Bronx, N.Y.	3:30 p.m.	ESPN+ | MSGN	Click Here

 

  ARCHERY
Archery will compete in its first shoot of the outdoor season on Saturday down in Mays Landing, New Jersey at the Spring Outdoor Collegiate Invitational. The one-day event will feature 11 Lions. Columbia is coming off its annual spring break training trip, which took the Lions to Mexico the week of March 13-18. The Arizona Cup is on tap for next weekend before U.S. Collegiate Target Nationals April 22-23.
 

Day	Event	Location	Start Time
Saturday	Spring Outdoor Collegiate Invitational	Mays Landing, N.J.	9 a.m.

 

  SOFTBALL
Softball jumps back into Ivy League play this weekend with a series at Princeton. The Lions are coming off a sweep of Dartmouth last weekend at home where the pitching and two walk-off wins highlighted the weekend. Columbia lost a 5-3 midweek battle at Monmouth on Wednesday and sits at 10-15 overall this season with a 6-3 conference mark. With the sweep last weekend, the Lions moved into third place in the Ivy League standings behind Princeton and Harvard.

Jaden Hill, Cami Neal, Megan Ryono, and Bubba Gleaves have all been impressive at the plate this season. Hill leads the team with a .341 batting average. She is credited with 29 total hits, nine doubles, three home runs, and 10 RBI. Neal is batting .325 with nine doubles, a triple, a home run, and 15 RBI. Ryono has recorded 25 hits, six doubles, two home runs, and seven RBI. Gleaves has 22 hits, six doubles, one triple, one home run, and 14 RBI.

Jordan Hill and Raquel Reyes had great outing last weekend and were a critical factor in the sweep of Dartmouth. Reyes pitched a ten-inning complete game in the first game Friday. Hill followed that up with an eight-inning complete performance in the second game of the day. Reyes got the start Saturday in the series finale and Hill came in and earned the save as the Lions finished off the sweep. Hill is 5-8 in the circle this season with a 5.03 ERA. She has recorded 43 strikeouts this season. Reyes is 4-4 in the circle with a 5.69 ERA as she has notched 25 total strikeouts.
 

Day	Opponent	Location	Start Time	Video	Live Stats
Saturday	Princeton	Princeton, N.J.	12:30 p.m.	ESPN+	Click Here
Saturday	Princeton	Princeton, N.J.	3 p.m.	ESPN+	Click Here
Sunday	Princeton	Princeton, N.J.	12:30 p.m.	ESPN+	Click Here

 

  LACROSSE
The Lions will seek their first Ivy League victory on Saturday afternoon against the Princeton Tigers in New Jersey. Columbia is most recently coming off a loss to the UConn Huskies, who are receiving votes in the IWLCA Coaches Poll. After a tough first half, the Lions ratcheted up their defense, holding UConn to just three goals and outscoring the Huskies 5-3 in the time frame. Unfortunately, it wouldn't be enough to forge a comeback. Meanwhile, Princeton enters the game 1-1 so far in Ivy League competition, with a win over Cornell and a loss to Yale. 
 

Day	Opponent	Location	Start Time	Video	Live Stats
Saturday	Princeton	Princeton, N.J.	3:30 p.m.	WATCH	STATS