CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University baseball plays a three-game Ivy League series at Princeton University with a doubleheader on Saturday, Apr. 13 starting at 11:30 a.m. (ESPN+) and a single game on Sunday, Apr. 14 at noon (ESPN+) at Clarke Field in Princeton, New Jersey.

What to Know

• The Crimson (6-19, 3-6 Ivy) meets the Tigers (9-17, 5-4 Ivy) in a three-game set that will take the two teams past the halfway mark in their 21-game Ivy schedules. Princeton stands third in the Ivy standings while Harvard sits just two games back in sixth place.
• Harvard will act as the visiting team for the third time in the team's first four conference series. In the Crimson's first home series, two of the contests were relocated to Boston College due to field conditions at Harvard.
• Harvard leads Princeton in the all-time series, 153-129-25 in a series that dates back to 1868. Last season, the Crimson went 3-2 against the Tigers, winning the regular season series, 2-1, before the two teams split a pair of matchups in the Ivy League Tournament.
• Closing out The Baseball Beanpot, Harvard earned a 10-3 win over Massachusetts (Apr. 9) in the third-place game. Junior left-hander Brian Dowling permitted just two runs over 6.0 innings in the start, and sophomore Jordan Kang tallied a career-high four hits.
• Senior outfielder Ben Rounds has posted a .404 average, .500 OBP, four home runs, 17 RBIs, 38 hits, 29 runs, and nine doubles on the season. Rounds has reached base safely in 24 of the Crimson's 25 games on the year. He ranks first in the Ivy League in average (.404) and OBP (.500), second in hits (38) and walks (18), third in OPS (1.149) and runs (29), and fourth in slugging (.649) and doubles (nine). In the NCAA, he stands 41^st in average (.404) and 68^th in OBP (.500). For the season, he has posted 11 multi-hit games. In Ivy only play, he has hit .412 with 14 hits, six RBIs, and a .487 OBP. In Ivy action, he ranks third in average (.412), runs (12), and slugging (.765), fourth in OBP (.487), and fifth in hits (14).
• Junior George Cooper has hit .296 on the season with 29 hits, 14 RBIs, 14 runs, three doubles, and two triples. In Ivy only play, he has posted a .400 average, 16 hits, seven RBIs, seven runs, and a .429 OBP. In Ivy action, he ranks second in the league in hits (16) and fifth in average (.400). For the season, he has tallied 11 multi-hit games and five multi-RBI games.
• Junior outfielder Matt Giberti has notched a .254 average on the year with a .321 OBP and a 14-for-14 mark on stolen base attempts. He leads the Ivy League in stolen bases (14) and ranks 14^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 leads the team in home runs (five) and RBIs (24) on the year with a .253 average, 23 hits, and 14 runs. Snopek ranks fourth in the Ivy League in RBIs (24) and fifth in home runs (five). For the season, he has posted four multi-RBI games and seven multi-hit games. 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) and tallied a season-high five RBIs in back-to-back games vs. Brown (Mar. 31) and Boston College (Apr. 2).
• Junior catcher William Lybrook has posted a .347 average with 17 hits, 12 RBIs, 13 runs, and a .393 OBP. In Ivy only play, he has notched a .333 average with a .414 OBP. He went 2-for-3 with four RBIs, three runs, and a home run in game two vs. Western Carolina (Mar. 16).
• Junior right-hander Sean Matson has posted a 3.58 ERA with 41 strikeouts over 37.2 innings on the year. He ranks third in the Ivy League in ERA (3.58), third in opponent average (.225), and fourth in strikeouts (41). In Ivy only play, he has notched a 3.94 ERA with 19 strikeouts over 16.0 innings. 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 leads the Ivy League in strikeouts (54), while ranking third in strikeouts looking (13) and fifth in innings pitched (39.2). During Ivy only play, he has registered a 2.79 ERA with 30 strikeouts over 19.1 innings, ranking first in the conference in strikeouts (30) and third in opponent average (.162). In the NCAA, he ranks 46^th in strikeouts per nine innings (12.25). Fang earned Ivy League Pitcher of the Week on Apr. 1 after compiling a career-high 12 strikeouts over 7.0 innings in the win over Brown (Mar. 30). He tallied another 12 strikeouts in game three at Cornell (Apr. 7). Fang has also contributed at the plate, hitting .368 (7-for-19) with four RBIs and a home run.
• Junior right-hander Cole Cleary has posted a 1.00 ERA – tops in the conference – with six strikeouts over 9.0 innings in Ivy League play. He earned his first collegiate save in game two vs. Cornell (Apr. 7). Overall, he has notched a 5.52 ERA with 10 strikeouts over 14.2 innings.
• 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 second in the Ivy League in opposing batting average (.270) and fourth in strikeouts (199) on the mound, while standing third in hits (233) and stolen bases (31-of-37) and fourth in average (.269), runs (145), RBIs (135), and slugging (.391) at the plate. 

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Harvard plays at Stonehill on Apr. 16 at 3:30 p.m. (NEC Front Row) before hosting Dartmouth in a three-game Ivy League series with a doubleheader on Saturday, Apr. 20 starting at 11:30 a.m. (ESPN+) and a single game on Sunday, Apr. 21 at noon (ESPN+).