PRINCETON, N.J. — Columbia baseball split Saturday's doubleheader with Princeton at Clarke Field, winning game one, 10-2, before falling in game two, 3-2.

Head coach Brett Boretti collected his 500th career win in game one. Last season, the four-time Ivy League Coach of the Year became Columbia baseball's all-time wins leader. Boretti has the sixth-most wins among Ivy League baseball head coaches all-time.

The Lions (9-12, 4-1) and Tigers (7-17, 4-1) square off in the series finale on Sunday at 12 p.m.

Game 1 Recap

Columbia took a 2-0 lead in the third inning. Sam Miller got the Lions on the board with an RBI single, and Cole Fellows reached on a fielder's choice to score Ben Fishel.

Lions starter Joe Sheets battled out of a bases-loaded jam in the fourth inning and ended the fifth by getting a ground ball to Miller, who turned a pretty double play with Jack Kail and Jackson Brewer to end the frame.

Sheets pitched 5.2 innings of one-run ball, allowing five hits and striking out three.

After Princeton cut the lead in half, Columbia went ahead 4-1 on Anton Lazits' two-run single in the seventh. In the eighth, the Lions broke the game open with a four-spot. Miller singled home a run, Fellows walked with the bases loaded, Owen Estabrook scored on a wild pitch, and Griffin Palfrey walked with the bases loaded. Columbia reached base via a hit by pitch four times in the inning.

Miller put the exclamation mark on the series opener with a two-run home run in the ninth for his sixth blast of the season and fourth hit of the game.

Alex Sotiropoulos tossed the final 3.1 innings to earn his first-career save. The first-year right-handed hurler allowed one hit and struck out three.

Game 2 Recap

Palfrey put the Lions on top in the fourth inning with an RBI double. Kail singled then stole second on a failed pickoff attempt before coming home on Palfrey's double to give Columbia a 1-0 lead.

In the sixth inning, Princeton tied the game at 1-1 on a fielder's choice RBI. Lions starting pitcher Jagger Edwards threw six strong frames, surrendering four hits and recording three strikeouts. 

Hunter Snyder delivered a clutch two-out RBI single with the bases loaded in the eighth inning to give the Lions a 2-1 advantage. Brewer was thrown out at the plate trying to score and it ended the inning.

Princeton answered quickly with a two-run home run to center field off the bat of Caden Shapiro to take its first lead of the day, 3-2.

Columbia threatened in the ninth and got the tying run to third base, but Palfrey popped out to second to end the game.

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