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ELIZA NUESTRO
4
Stonehill STO 10-21
19
Winner Harvard HARV 6-21
Stonehill STO
10-21
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Final
19
Harvard HARV
6-21
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Stonehill STO 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 4 6 1
Harvard HARV 6 8 1 1 2 1 X 19 18 1

W: Colasante, Gio (1-3) L: Welsch,Jack (0-2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Powers Past Stonehill, 19-4

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Seniors George Cooper and Matt Giberti, junior Jordan Kang, sophomore Tyler Shulman, and first-year Liam Wilson each hit a home run as Harvard University baseball powered its way to a 19-4 win over Stonehill College, on Tuesday afternoon at O'Donnell Field.
 
Hosting its final non-league home game of the year, the Crimson (6-21) plated six runs in the bottom of the first and another eight runs in the last of the second to jump out to a 14-0 lead on its way to the victory over the visiting Skyhawks (10-21).
 
As a team, the Crimson set season highs in runs (19), hits (18), RBIs (17), home runs (five), and doubles (four). For Harvard, 11 different players tallied hits, including five student-athletes with multi-hit games, while 10 players posted an RBI, including four with multi-RBI days.
 
Giberti (3-for-5, two RBIs, home run), Cooper (3-for-4, RBI, home run), Shulman (2-for-3, three RBIs, home run, double), Kang (four RBIs, home run), Wilson (home run, RBI, three runs), sophomore Jack Rick Rickheim (2-for-3, three runs), and sophomore Ryan Mooney (2-for-4, two RBIs, two doubles) paced the Crimson offense while junior two-way player Gio Colasante tallied a hit, an RBI, and two runs at the plate alongside 2.0 shutout innings with three strikeouts as the starting pitcher. 

Harvard Highlights

  • Senior Matt Giberti finished 3-for-5 with two RBIs, two runs, and a home run. He launched his first collegiate homer.
  • Senior George Cooper posted a 3-for-4 effort with two runs, an RBI, a homer, and a double. He notched his team-best fifth homer of the year and 11th career home run.
  • Sophomore Tyler Shulman recorded a 2-for-3 day with a season-high three RBIs, two runs, a home run, a double, and a walk. He hit his first homer of the season and the second of his career.
  • Junior Jordan Kang registered a season-high four RBIs alongside a home run, a run scored, and a walk. He launched his third homer of the year and fifth of his career.
  • First-year Liam Wilson blasted his third home run of the season, while chipping in three runs scored, an RBI, and two walks.
  • Sophomore Jack Rickheim went 2-for-3 with three runs scored and a walk.
  • Sophomore Ryan Mooney finished 2-for-4 with two RBIs, two doubles, and a run.
  • Junior two-way player Gio Colasante registered a hit, an RBI, two runs, a walk, and a stolen base as a batter, while tossing 2.0 shutout innings with three strikeouts in the start as a pitcher.
  • Senior William Lybrook added a hit, an RBI, two runs, and a walk.
  • Senior Peter Levin tacked on a hit and a run, and first-year Gavin Smith contributed a hit and an RBI.
  • Sophomore right-hander Andrew Abler threw 2.0 innings of relief, allowing one unearned run on two hits and one walk with a season-high four strikeouts.
  • Senior right-hander Cole Cleary hurled a scoreless top of the seventh with one strikeout to close out the win.
  • As a team, the Crimson set season highs in runs (19), hits (18), RBIs (17), home runs (five), and doubles (four).
  • For Harvard, 11 different players tallied hits, including five student-athletes with multi-hit games, while 10 players posted an RBI, including four with multi-RBI days.
  • The Crimson's five home runs marked its most in a game since hitting five homers in an 18-17 win over Dartmouth on May 14, 2018.
  • Harvard's pitching staff combined to tally 11 strikeouts over 7.0 innings. 
Gallery: (4-15-2025) Baseball vs. Stonehill
 

How It Happened

  • The Crimson plated six runs in the bottom of the first to jump out to a 6-0 lead. Colasante brought in the game's first run with a bases-loaded walk before Lybrook hit an RBI single to right field. Following sacrifice flies from Shulman and Kang, Mooney sent a two-run double down the right field line to cap the frame's scoring.
  • Harvard scored eight times in the last of the second to extend the margin to 8-0. Cooper began the stanza's scoring with a solo home run to left center field before Shulman drove an RBI double into right center. Kang then lifted a three-run home run to left center prior to a two-run home run to right center from Giberti.
  • Stonehill brought in two runs in the top of the third to pull within 14-2.
  • Shulman launched a solo home run to right field in the bottom of the third to make the score 15-2.
  • The Skyhawks scored once in the top of the fourth to bring the margin to 15-3.
  • The Crimson plated a run following an error in the last of the fourth to take a 16-3 edge.
  • In the bottom of the fifth, Wilson hit a solo home run to left field before Rickheim sent an RBI single up the middle to stake the hosts to an 18-3 advantage.
  • The visitors plated one run in the top of the sixth to move within 18-4.
  • Smith closed the contest's scoring in the bottom of the sixth with an RBI single to left field. 

Next Up

Harvard hosts Cornell in a three-game series with a doubleheader on Saturday, Apr. 19 starting at 11:30 a.m. (ESPN+) and a single game on Sunday, Apr. 20 at noon (ESPN+). The Crimson will hold its fan-friendly Cambridge Day as part of Saturday's doubleheader.

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