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Harvard Baseball competes in the inaugural Ivy League Tournament vs. Princeton at Penn's Meiklejohn Stadium on May 19, 2023.
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Princeton PRIN 22-22
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Winner Harvard HARV 20-22
Princeton PRIN
22-22
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Final
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Harvard HARV
20-22
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Princeton PRIN 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 5 2
Harvard HARV 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 X 3 8 0

W: Stovern, Harrison (5-2) L: Jacob Faulkner (2-3) S: Fang, Callan (5)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Rallies to Defeat Princeton, 3-2, in Opening Game of Ivy League Tournament

PHILADELPHIA – Senior Chris Clark gave up just two runs in the start, and the Crimson's bullpen duo of senior Harrison Stovern and Callan Fang did not permit a run, allowing No. 2 seed Harvard University baseball to rally past No. 3 seed Princeton University, 3-2, in the opening game of the 2023 Ivy League Tournament on Friday afternoon at Tommy Lasorda Field at Meiklejohn Stadium.
 
Competing in the first game of the inaugural four-team Ivy League Tournament, the Crimson (20-22) faced a 2-0 deficit entering the bottom of the seventh before scoring twice in the seventh and once in the eighth to come back and beat the Tigers (22-22).
 
The Crimson – which won six of its seven Ivy League series during the regular season – improved to 7-1 in its last eight games and to 3-1 against Princeton on the year after taking the regular season series from the Tigers, 2-1.
 
Harvard advanced to the winner's side of the bracket and will face either No. 1 seed Penn or No. 4 seed Columbia on Saturday, May 20 at 3:00 p.m. (ESPN+).
 
Clark (7.0 innings, six strikeouts), Stovern (win, 1.0 inning, one strikeout), and Fang (save, 1.0 inning, two strikeouts) limited to the Tigers to just two runs while at the plate, junior Jake Berger and sophomore George Cooper each tallied three hits, including a combined three doubles.
 
Gallery: (5-19-2023) Baseball Ivy Tournament vs. Princeton
 

Harvard Highlights

  • Junior right-handed pitcher Chris Clark threw 7.0 innings in the start, allowing two runs – both earned – on three hits and three walks with six strikeouts.
  • Senior left-hander Harrison Stovern captured the win, tossing a scoreless eighth, giving up one hit and one walk with one strikeout.
  • First-year right-hander Callan Fang – the Ivy League Rookie of the Year – earned the save, throwing a scoreless ninth inning, permitting one hit while striking out two.
  • Junior Jake Berger went 3-for-3 with a double, a run, and a walk. He notched his third game with three or more hits this season.
  • Sophomore George Cooper finished 3-for-4 with two doubles and a run scored. He scored the go-ahead run in the bottom of the eighth. He posted his fifth game this year with three or more hits.
  • Senior Zach Brown tallied an RBI as his sacrifice fly in the last of the seventh tied the score at 2-2.
  • Senior Will Jacobsen registered a walk and a run, scoring the game-tying run in the seventh.
  • Juniors Ben Rounds and Peter Messervy each added a hit. 

How It Happened

  • Junior Chris Clark held Princeton scoreless through six innings, limiting the Tigers to one hit and one walk with five strikeouts over that timeframe.
  • The Crimson threatened to break the tie in the bottom of the second as junior Jake Berger doubled and advanced to third. Harvard put itself in a similar position in the last of the sixth as sophomore George Cooper doubled and made it to third before the frame concluded.
  • In the top of the seventh, Princeton's Scott Bandura sent a solo home run to right field to break the tie and give the Tigers a 1-0 lead. A second run came home following a hit by pitch.
  • The Crimson countered with two runs in the bottom of the seventh to tie the game at 2-2. After Harvard put runners on first and second with no outs, Berger came around to score following a sacrifice bunt from junior Peter Messervy. The Crimson then knotted the game on a sacrifice fly from senior Zach Brown that scored senior Will Jacobsen.
  • Senior left-hander Harrison Stovern came on in the top of the eighth, retiring the side in a scoreless inning to keep the sore at 2-2.
  • In the bottom of the eighth, Cooper led off the inning with a double before junior Ben Rounds sent a single to left field that allowed Cooper to come home as the go-ahead run.
  • First-year right-hander Callan Fang shut the door in the top of the ninth, earning the save and sealing the victory for the Crimson.

Next Up

No. 2 seed Harvard will face either No. 1 seed Penn (29-14) or No. 4 seed Columbia (23-20) at 3:00 p.m. (ESPN+) tomorrow – Saturday, May 20 – in the winner's side of the bracket in the Ivy League Tournament's second day.


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