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Matt Giberti
Katherine Harvey
17
Winner UMass Lowell UML 17-21
15
Harvard HARV 11-22
Winner
UMass Lowell UML
17-21
17
Final
15
Harvard HARV
11-22
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
UMass Lowell UML 3 3 0 0 5 0 3 2 1 17 17 1
Harvard HARV 1 0 4 0 5 0 1 3 1 15 13 2

W: Rourke, Kevin (1-0) L: Dowling, Brian (1-3)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Five Crimson Post Multi-RBI Games, Baseball Falls to UMass Lowell, 17-15

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Senior Ben Rounds went 4-for-6 with three RBIs and a home run, and five members of the Crimson posted multi-RBI games, but Harvard University baseball fell to the University of Massachusetts Lowell, 17-15, on Tuesday afternoon at O'Donnell Field in its non-league finale.
 
Competing in the fourth game of a seven-game homestand in a contest broadcast across NESN, NESN+, and ESPN+, the Crimson (11-22) rallied to trim a 6-1 deficit to 6-5, an 11-5 margin to 11-10, and a 16-11 difference to 16-14 before the visiting River Hawks (17-21) held on for the decision.
 
Rounds went 4-for-6 with three RBIs, two runs, a home run, and a double, junior Matt Giberti totaled two hits, three runs, and two RBIs, and junior George Cooper posted two hits, three RBIs, and a double.

Harvard Highlights

  • Senior Ben Rounds went 4-for-6 with three RBIs, two runs, a home run, and a double. Rounds hit his seventh homer of the year and 13th of his career.
  • Junior Matt Giberti totaled two hits, three runs, two RBIs, a walk, and a stolen base. He moved to 19-for-21 on stolen base attempts on the year.
  • Junior George Cooper posted two hits, three RBIs, and a double.
  • First-year Jack Rickheim recorded three RBIs, two runs, two walks, and a hit.
  • First-year Dominic Brancel tallied two RBIs, two walks, a hit, and a run.
  • Senior Peter Messervy contributed two hits, two walks, and two runs.
  • Sophomore Max Lane scored three runs and added a hit, RBI, and walk.
  • Senior Jake Berger worked three walks and scored a run.
  • Harvard compiled 13 hits in the game, marking its 18th game with double-figure hits this year, and scored double-figure runs for the eighth time in 2024.
  • Five members of the Crimson posted multi-RBI games.
  • The Crimson worked a season-high 12 walks as an offense. 
Gallery: (4-23-2024) Baseball vs. UMass Lowell
 

How It Happened

  • The River Hawks opened the game's scoring with three runs in the top of the first.
  • An RBI single from Rounds that plated Giberti made the score 3-1 in the bottom of the first.
  • UMass Lowell scored three runs in the top of the second, including a two-run home run, to move its margin to 6-1.
  • Harvard pulled within 6-5 behind four runs in the bottom of the third. Lane worked a bases-loaded walk to start the scoring before Brancel sent a two-run single down the left field line. Rickheim capped the frame's scoring with a sacrifice fly that scored Lane.
  • The visitors plated five runs in the top of the fifth to move ahead 11-5.
  • The Crimson countered with five runs in the last of the fifth to move back within one run at 11-10. A bases-clearing double from Cooper highlighted the inning's scoring after both Rickheim and Giberti worked bases-loaded walks earlier in the frame.
  • UMass Lowell added three runs in the top of the seventh to move the margin to 14-10.
  • In the bottom of the seventh, Rounds sent an RBI single to left field to bring the hosts within 14-11.
  • The River Hawks tacked on a pair of runs in the top of the eighth to make it 16-11.
  • Harvard plated three runs in the bottom of the eighth to pull within 16-14. Rickheim initiated the scoring with an RBI single to left center before Messervy scored on a passed ball and Giberti brought home a run with a ground ball.
  • The visitors notched one run in the top of the ninth to make the difference 17-14.
  • Rounds launched a solo home run to right field in the bottom of the ninth to trim the margin to 17-15 before the visitors held on for the decision. 

Next Up

Harvard hosts 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+).



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