CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University baseball opens Ivy League play with a three-game series at the University of Pennsylvania from Mar. 22-23 (ESPN+) at Tommy Lasorda Field at Meiklejohn Stadium in Philadelphia. 

What to Know

• In the first conference weekend for all eight Ivy schools, the Crimson (0-13, 0-0 Ivy) heads south to meet the Quakers (5-9, 0-0 Ivy) with Penn entering the weekend on a four-game win streak.
• Harvard's weekend rotation is set to feature RHP Callan Fang (0-2, 2.70 ERA) in game one, RHP Truman Pauley (0-3, 6.41 ERA) in game two, and a to-be-determined pitcher in game three. Penn is set to counter with RHP Noah Millikan (0-1, 8.44 ERA) in game one, RHP Sebastian Haggard (1-0, 3.00 ERA) in game two, and LHP Will Tobin (0-1, 9.24 ERA) in game three.
• Harvard leads Penn in the all-time series, 121-79-1 in a series that dates back to 1886.
• Senior outfielder Matt Giberti has notched a .276 batting average, eight hits, five runs, and a 5-for-6 effort in stolen bases. He ranks fourth in the Ivy League in stolen bases (five).
• Senior outfielder/infielder George Cooper has tallied a .267 average, 10 RBIs, 12 hits, two doubles, a triple, and a home run on the year. In the series opener against Northeastern (Mar. 14), he went 3-for-4 with a triple and a double.
• Sophomore right-hander Truman Pauley has tallied 22 strikeouts over 19.2 innings pitched on the year. In the Ivy League, he ranks third in strikeouts (22), fourth in opponents' average (.214), and fifth in innings pitched (19.2). He threw 6.2 innings with a career-high nine strikeouts, while allowing two runs at Northeastern (Mar. 15).
• Junior right-handed pitcher Callan Fang has tallied a 2.70 ERA over 6.2 innings in his first two appearances of the year. Fang won the 2024 Ivy League Pitcher of the Year award and the 2023 Ivy League Rookie of the Year award.
• Opening non-conference play, Harvard played eight of its first nine games against Power Four conference opponents with matchups against the Big Ten's Northwestern (Feb. 22) and Indiana (Feb. 23) as well as the SEC's Florida (Mar. 7-9). The Crimson plays at neutral or road sites for the first 16 games of its season (Feb. 21 to Mar. 23) before competing at home for the first time vs. Holy Cross on Mar. 25.
• Senior George Cooper will serve the Crimson as the team's captain in 2025. Over his first three seasons, the two-time All-Ivy selection played in 107 games with 103 starts, hitting .303 with 78 runs, 135 hits, 26 doubles, seven triples, six home runs, and 55 RBIs.
• Fenway Park will host this year's Baseball Beanpot on Tuesday, April 29. The college baseball doubleheader will feature teams from Boston College, Northeastern, Massachusetts, and Harvard. Fenway Park has hosted the tournament 24 times since it began in 1990, including most recently in 2019. Harvard has won five Beanpot titles all-time including in 1991, 1998 (co), 2005, 2014, and 2018.
• Highlights from the Crimson's schedule include three trips to the South during non-league play, its first Ivy series at Penn (Mar. 22-23), its home opener vs. Holy Cross (Mar. 25), its first Ivy home series against Yale (Mar. 29-30), The Baseball Beanpot at Fenway Park (Apr. 29), the final series of the regular season at home vs. Columbia (May 3-4), and a hopeful berth in the four-team Ivy League Tournament (May 16-19). 

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Harvard hosts a four-game homestand when it welcomes Holy Cross in its home opener on Mar. 25 at 3:00 p.m. (ESPN+) before playing Yale in a three-game series at O'Donnell Field from Mar. 29-30 with a doubleheader on Mar. 29 beginning at 11:30 a.m. and a single game on Mar. 30 at noon.