NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Junior
Sawyer Feller hit a home run, and senior
Chris Snopek and sophomore
Jordan Kang each hit RBI doubles, but Harvard University baseball fell to Yale University, 6-4, in its season finale on Sunday afternoon at George H.W. Bush '48 Field.
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The Crimson (13-26, 9-12 Ivy) took a 2-0 lead in the top of the fourth and re-gained a 4-3 edge in the top of the seventh before the host Bulldogs (18-23, 11-10 Ivy) scored the game's final three runs.
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Feller went 3-for-5 with a home run, three runs, and an RBI. He hit his fourth homer of the year and eighth of his career. Snopek and Kang each went 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI. The Crimson offense tallied 11 hits, marking its 21
st game with double-figure hits on the year, while Harvard's pitching staff permitted just two earned runs and five hits.
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For the season, the Crimson earned at least one win against all seven other Ivy teams, while senior
Ben Rounds closed the year with a .403 batting average, becoming the first Harvard student-athlete to hit above .400 since Trey Hendricks '04 hit .427 in 2004.
Harvard Highlights
- Junior Sawyer Feller went 3-for-5 with a home run, three runs, and an RBI. He hit his fourth homer of the year and eighth of his career.
- Senior Chris Snopek finished 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI.
- Sophomore Jordan Kang posted a 2-for-4 effort with a double and an RBI.
- Junior William Lybrook notched a hit, an RBI, and a walk.
- Senior Peter Messervy added a hit, a run, and a walk.
- Senior Jake Berger and junior George Cooper each tacked on a hit, and senior Ben Rounds worked a walk.
- Sophomore right-hander Callan Fang threw 4.2 innings in the start, allowing three runs – two earned – on two hits and five walks with three strikeouts.
- Out of the bullpen, first-year Will Burns, first-year Andrew Abler, senior Uday Narottam, and junior Cole Cleary combined to toss 3.1 innings of relief, allowing no earned runs, three hits, and no walks.
- The Crimson offense tallied 11 hits, marking its 21st game with double-figure hits on the year.
- Harvard's pitching staff permitted just two earned runs and five hits.Â
How It Happened
- Harvard opened the game's scoring as Kang sent an RBI double down the left field line to plate Feller in the top of the second.
- The Crimson doubled its lead to 2-0 in the top of the fourth as Snopek drove an RBI double off the left field wall to bring home Feller once again.
- Yale cut the margin to 2-1 with a run in the bottom of the fourth.
- The Bulldogs took a 3-2 lead behind a pair of runs in the last of the fifth.
- Feller's solo home run to left field in the top of the sixth knotted the score at 3-3.
- Harvard moved ahead 4-3 in the seventh as Lybrook sent a single to left field to drive in Messervy.
- The hosts re-gained a 5-4 edge in the bottom of the seventh with two unearned runs and added an insurance run in the last of the eighth.