CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University baseball hosts Holy Cross in its home opener on Tuesday, Mar. 25 at 4:00 p.m. (ESPN+) at Boston College's Harrington Athletics Village in Brighton, Massachusetts. Officials updated the contest's time and location due to weather and field conditions.
What to Know
- The Crimson (0-16) hosts the Crusaders (11-12) in its first home game of the year after competing at road or neutral sites for the first 16 contests of its season.
- In the pitching matchup, Harvard right-hander Owen Tahnk (0-0, 99.00 ERA) will take on Holy Cross right-hander Nick Harnisch (1-1, 9.00 ERA).
- Harvard trails Holy Cross in the all-time series, 67-106, in a series that dates back to 1883.
- Senior outfielder Matt Giberti has notched a team-best .310 batting average, 13 hits, six runs, and a 6-for-7 effort in stolen bases. He ranks sixth in the Ivy League in stolen bases (six).
- Senior outfielder/infielder George Cooper has tallied a .271 average, 11 RBIs, 16 hits, three doubles, a triple, and two home runs on the year. In the series opener against Northeastern (Mar. 14), he went 3-for-4 with a triple and a double.
- Junior Gio Colasante has hit .467 in Ivy League play. In Ivy only games, he ranks third in the league in hits (seven), seventh in average (.467), eighth in total bases (12), and 10th in slugging (.800). He hit 7-for-15 (.467) in the Penn series with multi-hit games in all three contests.
- Sophomore right-hander Truman Pauley has tallied 30 strikeouts over 24.1 innings pitched on the year. In the Ivy League, he ranks second in strikeouts (30), third in opponents' average (.216), and fifth in innings pitched (24.1). In Ivy only play, he sits third in the league in strikeouts (eight). 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 2.63 ERA over 13.2 innings on the year. In Ivy only play, he ranks third in the league in innings pitched (7.0) and eighth in ERA (2.57). 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), Indiana (Feb. 23), and Michigan State (Feb. 28 to Mar. 2) as well as the SEC's Florida (Mar. 7-8). The Crimson played 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.
- 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).
Up Next
Harvard hosts Yale in its first home Ivy League 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.
