CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University baseball opens a seven-game homestand when it hosts Dartmouth College for a three-game series at O'Donnell Field with a doubleheader on Saturday, Apr. 20 at 11:30 a.m. (ESPN+) and a single game on Sunday, Apr. 21 at noon (ESPN+).

What to Know

• The Crimson (9-20, 5-7 Ivy) meets the Big Green (10-17, 5-7) Ivy with Harvard having won five of its last seven games, including a 4-1 mark in its last five contests. The Crimson and Big Green both enter the weekend one game back of third place in the Ivy League standings.
• Harvard's weekend rotation is set to feature RHP Sean Matson (2-2, 3.22 ERA) in game one, RHP Will Burns (0-3, 8.10 ERA) in game two, and RHP Callan Fang (2-2, 4.82 ERA) in game three.
• Dartmouth will counter with RHP Mac Burke (1-0, 4.09 ERA) in game one, RHP Marco Dumsky  (1-3, 6.75 ERA) in game two, and TBA in game three.
• Harvard holds a 138-131 lead in the all-time series with Dartmouth. Last season, the Crimson swept the three-game series from the Big Green. The two teams first met in 1869.
• Harvard posted season highs in runs (17), RBIs (17), and hits (19) in its 17-14 win over Stonehill (Apr. 16). Seniors Peter Messervy (five RBIs) and Jake Berger (four RBIs) combined for nine RBIs in the game as the Crimson plated six runs in the top of the ninth to take the victory.
• The Crimson took a 2-1 series win over Princeton (Apr. 13-14) behind a 3-2 win in game one and 14-2 victory in game three. For the series, Harvard's pitching staff registered a 2.70 ERA, including ERAs under 2.00 from sophomore Callan Fang (0.00 ERA, 7.0 IP, eight strikeouts), junior Sean Matson (1.29 ERA, 7.0 IP, 12 strikeouts), and first-year Truman Pauley (1.69 ERA, 5.1 IP, six strikeouts).
• A margin of three runs or fewer has decided nine of Harvard's 12 Ivy League games, including five one-run games.
• Over Harvard's first 12 Ivy League contests, the Crimson played on its home field at O'Donnell Field just once. Harvard acted as the visiting team for three of its 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.
• 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 .400 average, .500 OBP, five home runs, 22 RBIs, 44 hits, 33 runs, and 11 doubles on the season. He ranks first in the Ivy League in average (.400), OBP (.500< and="" hits="" (44),="" third="" in="" runs="" (33)="" and="" doubles="" (11),="" fourth="" in="" ops="" (1.155)="" and="" walks="" (21),="" and="" fifth="" in="" slugging="" (.655).="" in="" the="" ncaa,="" he="" stands="">^th in average (.400) and 59^th in OBP (.500). For the season, he has posted 13 multi-hit games. In Ivy only play, he has hit .378 with 17 hits, 10 RBIs, five doubles, and a .472 OBP.
• Senior Jake Berger has tallied a .292 average, 22 runs, 31 hits, five doubles, and a .363 OBP on the year. He went 4-for-5 with four RBIs and four runs at Stonehill (Apr. 16). Berger has posted seven multi-hit games on the year.
• Junior George Cooper has hit .289 on the season with 33 hits, 16 RBIs, 17 runs, four doubles, and two triples. In Ivy only play, he has posted a .345 average, 19 hits, nine RBIs, seven runs, and a .379 OBP. For the season, he has tallied 11 multi-hit games and six multi-RBI games.
• Junior outfielder Matt Giberti has notched a .277 average on the year with a .355 OBP and a 17-for-18 mark on stolen base attempts. He leads the Ivy League in stolen bases (17) and ranks 10^th in the NCAA in stolen bases per game (0.71). 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 (six) and RBIs (28) on the year with a .234 average, 26 hits, and 18 runs. Snopek ranks fourth in the Ivy League in RBIs (28) and sixth in home runs (six). For the season, he has posted six 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 .344 average with 21 hits, 13 RBIs, 16 runs, and a .408 OBP. In Ivy only play, he has notched a .343 average with a .429 OBP, 12 hits, and 12 runs. 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 3.22 ERA with 53 strikeouts over 44.2 innings on the year. He ranks first in the Ivy League in ERA (3.22), second in strikeouts (53), and second in opponent average (.220). In Ivy only play, he has notched a 3.13 ERA with 31 strikeouts over 23.0 innings, ranking third in strikeouts (31) and fifth in ERA (3.13). Matson tallied a career-high 12 strikeouts, while allowing one run over 7.0 innings at Princeton (Apr. 13). 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 (62), while ranking second in strikeouts looking (15), third in innings (46.2), seventh in ERA (4.82), and seventh in opponent average (.241). During Ivy only play, he has registered a 2.05 ERA with 38 strikeouts over 26.1 innings, ranking first in the conference in strikeouts (38), third in ERA (2.05), and third in opponent average (.179). In the NCAA, he ranks 34^th in strikeout-to-walk ratio (5.64) and 45^th in strikeouts per nine innings (11.96).
• Fang has earned Ivy League Pitcher of the Week twice during Ivy League play. He captured the award on Apr. 1 after compiling a career-high 12 strikeouts over 7.0 innings in the win over Brown (Mar. 30) and won again on Apr. 15 after throwing 7.0 scoreless innings in a victory over Princeton (Apr. 14). He tallied another 12 strikeouts in game three at Cornell (Apr. 7). Fang has also contributed at the plate, hitting .345 (10-for-29) with five RBIs and a home run.
• Junior right-hander Cole Cleary has posted a 1.64 ERA with 11 strikeouts over 11.0 innings in Ivy League play. He earned his first collegiate save in game two vs. Cornell (Apr. 7) and picked up another save with a career-high five strikeouts vs. Princeton (Apr. 13). Overall, he has notched a 5.68 ERA with two saves and 17 strikeouts over 19.0 innings. Cleary ranks fifth in the conference in saves (two).
• As a team, Harvard ranks second in the Ivy League in opposing batting average (.270) and fourth in strikeouts (239) on the mound, while standing third in hits (281), runs (183), RBIs (168), and stolen bases (40-for-47) and fourth in average (.275) and slugging (.399) at the plate.
• For the season, Harvard has posted double-figure runs six times and double-figure hits 15 times. 

Up Next

Harvard hosts UMass Lowell on Tuesday, Apr. 23 at 3:00 p.m. (ESPN+/NESN/NESN+) before hosting Penn in a three-game series with a doubleheader on Saturday, Apr. 27 at 11:30 a.m. (ESPN+) and a single game on Sunday, Apr. 28 at noon (ESPN+).