CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University baseball will take on the University of Massachusetts in the semifinals of The Baseball Beanpot on Tuesday, Apr. 1 at 3:00 p.m. (ESPN+) at Earl Lorden Field in Amherst, Massachusetts.

What to Know

• The Crimson (2-18, 1-5 Ivy) will meet the Minutemen (9-12-1, 3-6 A-10) in The Baseball Beanpot semifinals after the two teams met in the third-place game a season ago. In the other semifinal, Boston College (13-12, 5-7 ACC) will play at Northeastern (18-8, 5-1 CAA) at Friedman Diamond in Brookline, Massachusetts on Apr. 1 at 2:30 p.m. (NESN/FloCollege). The championship/third-place round of this year's tournament will take place at Fenway Park on Apr. 29.
• The Crimson holds a 34-21 advantage in the all-time series with Massachusetts. The two teams first met in 1914. Harvard topped the Minutemen, 10-3, in the Beanpot third-place game last season.
• Harvard has won five Beanpot titles all-time including in 1991, 1998 (co), 2005, 2014, and 2018. The tournament began in 1990. The Crimson has posted a 21-38-1 record all-time in the tournament, including a 14-18 record in the semifinals and a 7-11 mark against UMass.
• Senior outfielder Matt Giberti has notched a team-best .298 batting average, 17 hits, 10 runs, and an 8-for-10 effort in stolen bases. He ranks second in the Ivy League in stolen bases (eight). In Ivy only play, he has hit .333 (8-for-24).
• Senior outfielder/infielder George Cooper has tallied a .284 average with team highs in hits (21), RBIs (15), and home runs (four) on the year. He ranks fifth in the Ivy League in home runs (four) and hit homers in three straight games from Mar. 23-28. In Ivy only play, he stands fourth in homers (two). Cooper posted a 3-for-4 effort with a two-run homer in the win over Holy Cross (Mar. 25). In the series opener against Northeastern (Mar. 14), he went 3-for-4 with a triple and a double.
• Junior Gio Colasante has hit .360 in Ivy League play with nine hits, two doubles, three RBIs, and a homer. He hit 7-for-15 (.467) in the Penn series (Mar. 22-23) with multi-hit games in all three contests.
• Junior right-handed pitcher Callan Fang has tallied a 3.05 ERA with 18 strikeouts over 20.2 innings on the year. He ranks third in the conference in ERA (3.05) and seventh in opponents' average (.250). In Ivy only play, he ranks first in innings pitched (14.0), third in strikeouts (13), and ninth in ERA (3.21). He tossed 7.0 innings with seven strikeouts in the win over Yale (Mar. 28). Fang won the 2024 Ivy League Pitcher of the Year award and the 2023 Ivy League Rookie of the Year award.
• Sophomore right-hander Truman Pauley has tallied 32 strikeouts over 25.2 innings pitched on the year. In the Ivy League, he ranks fourth in strikeouts (32) and fourth in opponents' average (.240). He threw 6.2 innings with a career-high nine strikeouts, while allowing two runs at Northeastern (Mar. 15).
• Sophomore Jack Rickheim has added a .277 average with 18 hits, six RBIs, seven runs scored, and four doubles. He notched the go-ahead RBI in the bottom of the eighth in the 14-13 win over Holy Cross (Mar. 25).
• 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 in a game that was relocated to BC's Harrington Athletics Village.
• 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. 28-29), 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 plays a three-game Ivy League series at Dartmouth with a doubleheader on Saturday, Apr. 5 starting at 11:30 a.m. (ESPN+) and a single game on Sunday, Apr. 6 at noon (ESPN+).