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May, 18, 2025; New Haven, Connecticut; during the 2025 Ivy League Baseball Championship between Harvard and CColumbia defeated Harvard, 14-6, to claim the 2025 Ivy League Tournament Championship.olumbia. Photo by Danika Korpacz for Foley-Photography
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HARVARD HARVARD 14-28
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Winner Columbia COL 27-17
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HARVARD HARVARD 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 2 6 12 2
Columbia COL 1 2 7 1 0 0 3 0 X 14 16 1

W: Edwards, Jagger (4-3) L: Smith, Jack (1-1) S: Harrigan, Will (5)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Powers Past Harvard to Punch NCAA Tournament Ticket

The Lions tied a program record with seven homers to earn a 14-6 victory and the Ivy League’s automatic NCAA bid

NEW HAVEN, Conn. —  The Columbia baseball team is headed back to the NCAA Tournament after downing Harvard, 14-6, in the Ivy League Tournament Championship game on Sunday. 

The Lions (25-17) tied a program record with seven home runs, including two each from Anton Lazits and Owen Estabrook, and will make their eighth NCAA Regional appearance — the seventh under head coach Brett Boretti. Columbia will learn its postseason destination during the selection show on May 26 at noon ET on ESPNU.

 

Lazits, named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player, opened the scoring with a two-run groundout in the first. Estabrook extended the lead to 3-0 in the second with a 409-foot solo homer, the first of his two on the day.

Columbia broke the game open in the third inning with four home runs. Lazits and Cole Fellows hit back-to-back shots on consecutive pitches, Tate Vogler added an RBI double, and Estabrook homered again to make it 8-0. Hunter Snyder drew one of his three walks on the day to set the table for Sam Miller, who launched a two-run shot to left to put the Lions in double figures.
 

Harvard (14-28), who earned the rematch with the Lions after defeating top-seeded Yale, 8-6, in an elimination game earlier on Sunday, responded with a solo homer by Gio Colasante in the fourth. The Crimson had opportunities to creep closer, loading the bases in both the fifth and sixth innings, but settled for three runs to keep the Lions comfortably in front.

In the seventh, the Lions went back on the offensive with a two-run big fly from Vogler and an RBI single from Miller to bring the lead up to 14-4. The Crimson scored two more in the top of the ninth, but Lazits secured the final out with a leaping grab at the wall to seal the deal.

Vogler finished the day 4-for-5, tying a program record with three doubles. All of his hits were for extra bases. All nine Columbia starters recorded at least one hit in the contest.

Jagger Edwards earned the win (4-3) after allowing four runs on eight hits with four strikeouts over 5.1 innings. Will Harrigan tied the program's single-season save record with his fifth of the year. The native of Syracuse, New York, allowed just one earned run with two strikeouts in the final 3.2 innings.

Joining Lazits on the Ivy League All-Tournament Team were Fellows, Thomas Santana and Jack Kail.

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