CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University baseball plays at Holy Cross on Wednesday, Mar. 27 at 5:00 p.m. at Fitton Field in Worcester, Massachusetts as the Crimson competes in its first game in the New England region this season.

What to Know

• The Crimson (3-13, 1-2 Ivy) meets the Crusaders (8-15, 1-3 Patriot) in Harvard's first game in the Bay State this season. The two teams shifted the contest to Wednesday from its originally scheduled date of Tuesday, Mar. 26.
• Harvard will feature right-handed pitcher Andrew Abler (1-1, 5.73 ERA) as the team's projected starting pitcher. Holy Cross will counter with RHP Oliver Brown (0-1, 9.53 ERA).
• Harvard trails Holy Cross in the all-time series, 67-105, in a series that dates back to 1883. The Crimson took a 6-5 decision in the matchup last spring.
• Senior designated hitter Ben Rounds has posted a .390 average, .486 OBP, three home runs, 12 RBIs, 23 hits, and 17 runs on the season. Rounds has reached base safely in all 16 of the Crimson's games to start the year. He ranks second in the Ivy League in average (.390) and doubles (seven), third in slugging (.661), OBP (.486), OPS (1.147), and runs (17), and fourth in hits (23). In the NCAA, he stands 62^nd in doubles per game (0.44). He hit .556 (5-for-9) in the team's opening weekend at Troy (Feb. 23-25).
• Junior outfielder Matt Giberti has notched a .289 average on the year with a .373 OBP and a 10-for-10 mark on stolen base attempts. He leads the Ivy League in stolen bases (10) and ranks 12^th in the NCAA in stolen bases per game (0.67). Giberti earned Ivy League Player of the Week after hitting .556 (5-for-9) with four runs, three doubles, and a .636 OBP in the Penn State series (Mar. 8-10).
• Senior infielder Chris Snopek has hit a team-high four home runs on the year with 14 hits, and 12 RBIs. He went 5-for-13 with three runs and a home run in The Citadel (Mar. 2-3) series. Snopek finished 3-for-5 with two homers and four RBIs in game two at Western Carolina (Mar. 16).
• Junior right-hander Sean Matson has posted a 3.04 ERA with 28 strikeouts over 26.2 innings on the year. He leads the Ivy League in opponent batting average (.181), while ranking third in ERA (3.04), fourth in strikeouts (28), and fifth in innings pitched (26.2). In the NCAA rankings, he stands 51^st in hits allowed per nine innings (5.74). He earned Ivy League Pitcher of the Week on Mar. 4 after throwing 6.1 scoreless innings with seven strikeouts at The Citadel (Mar. 2).
• Sophomore right-hander Callan Fang ranks third in the Ivy League in strikeouts (30), second in strikeouts looking (nine), and seventh in innings (26.1). He tallied a career-high seven strikeouts in back-to-back starts – at The Citadel (Mar. 3) and vs. Penn State (Mar. 10).
• First-year right-hander Andrew Abler has tallied a 5.73 ERA with 10 strikeouts over 11.0 innings. Abler threw 4.0 innings of relief against Troy (Feb. 23), permitting one run on one hit with four strikeouts. He tossed 2.0 innings of scoreless relief at Western Carolina (Mar. 16).
• As a team, Harvard ranks third in the Ivy League in stolen bases (18-for-20), third in opponent batting average (.363), and fourth in fielding percentage (.965).
• Harvard plays its first 17 games of the season on the road. The Crimson makes four trips to the South, facing Troy (Feb. 23-25), The Citadel (Mar. 1-3), Penn State in Cary, North Carolina (Mar. 8-10), ETSU (Mar. 13), and Western Carolina (Mar. 15-17) before returning to the Northeast for road contests at Columbia (Mar. 23-24) and Holy Cross (Mar. 26). The Crimson will play its first home games vs. Brown (Mar. 30-31).
• Harvard was selected to finish third in the 2024 Ivy League Baseball Preseason Media Poll. The Crimson totaled 97 points to land in the top half of the eight-team poll. Penn took the top spot with 128 points and 16 first-place votes. Columbia (101 points) and Princeton (87 points) claimed the second and fourth spots respectively. Yale (66 points), Cornell (37), Brown (35), and Dartmouth (25) rounded out the fifth through eighth spots in the poll. 

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Harvard hosts Brown for a three-game series with a doubleheader on Saturday, Mar. 30 starting at 11:30 a.m. (ESPN+) and a single game on Sunday, Mar. 31 at noon (ESPN+) in the Crimson's first home games of the season at O'Donnell Field.