CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University baseball hosts Brown University for a three-game Ivy League series with a doubleheader on Saturday, Mar. 30 at Harrington Athletics Village in Brighton, Massachusetts and a single game on Sunday, Mar. 31 (ESPN+) in the Crimson's first home contest at O'Donnell Field in 2024.

What to Know

• The Crimson (3-14, 1-2 Ivy) hosts the Bears (5-13, 0-3 Ivy) after playing its first 17 games of the season on the road. The two teams will play a doubleheader on Saturday, Mar. 30 starting at noon before game three of the series on Sunday, Mar. 31 at noon.
• Harvard's weekend rotation is set to feature RHP Sean Matson (0-1, 3.04 ERA) in game one, RHP Callan Fang (0-2, 6.84 ERA) in game two, and TBA in game three.
• Brown is set to counter with RHP Jack Seppings (1-3, 5.97 ERA) in game one, RHP Paxton Meyers (2-0, 3.68 ERA) in game two, and RHP Santhosh Gottam (1-4, 8.17 ERA) in game three.
• Harvard leads Brown in the all-time series, 200-125-1. The Crimson has taken two of three games from the Bears in each of the last two seasons. The two teams first met in 1868.
• Senior designated hitter Ben Rounds has posted a .371 average, .480 OBP, three home runs, 12 RBIs, 23 hits, and 18 runs on the season. Rounds has reached base safely in all 17 of the Crimson's games to start the year. He ranks second in the Ivy League in average (.371), third in OBP (.480), third in runs (18), third in doubles (seven), fourth in OPS (1.109), fifth in slugging (.629), and eighth in runs (23). In the NCAA, he stands 60^th 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 13^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 a .254 average, 17 hits, and 11 RBIs. Snopek ranks fifth in the Ivy League in homers (four). 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 sixth in innings pitched (26.2). In the NCAA rankings, he stands 45^th 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 5.54 ERA with 12 strikeouts over 13.0 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 opponent batting average (.264) and fourth in stolen bases (18-for-20).
• Harvard played its first 17 games of the season on the road. The Crimson made 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 Boston College in The Baseball Beanpot on Tuesday, Apr. 2 at 3:00 p.m. (ESPN+) prior to a three-game series at Cornell with a doubleheader on Saturday, Apr. 6 starting at 11:30 a.m. (ESPN+) and a single game on Sunday, Apr. 7 at noon (ESPN+).