CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University baseball plays at Brown University in a three-game Ivy League series at Attanasio Family Field at Murray Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island with a single game on Friday, Apr. 25 at 3:00 p.m. and a doubleheader on Sunday, Apr. 27 starting at 11:30 a.m. (ESPN+) with the Crimson coming off a 2-1 series win over Cornell University.

What to Know

• The Crimson (8-22, 5-9 Ivy) will meet the Bears (9-23, 5-10 Ivy) in Harvard's final Ivy road series of the regular season with the two teams set to face off in a series that was adjusted due to weather. Harvard enters the weekend with a 4-1 record in its last four games.
• In the Ivy standings, sixth-place Harvard (5-9 Ivy) sits just one game back of fourth-place Princeton (6-8) and a half game back of fifth-place Cornell (6-9). The Crimson stands a half game ahead of both Brown (5-10) and Dartmouth (5-10), who are tied for seventh.
• Harvard's weekend rotation is set to feature RHP Callan Fang (2-3, 3.76 ERA) in game one, RHP Truman Pauley (2-5, 5.17 ERA) in game two, and a to-be-determined pitcher in game three. Brown will counter with RHP Santhosh Gottam (2-4, 7.69 ERA) in game one, and to-be-determined pitchers in games two and three.
• Harvard leads Brown in the all-time series, 201-127-1. The two teams first met in 1868.
• Since March 25, Harvard has posted an 8-6 record with the Crimson hitting .317 as a team. Six members of the Crimson have hit above .300 during that span including senior George Cooper (.429), junior Gio Colasante (.385), senior William Lybrook (.375), senior Matt Giberti (.350), sophomore Jack Rickheim (.346), and sophomore Tyler Shulman (.333).
• Harvard took a 2-1 series victory in the Cornell series (Apr. 19-20), behind a doubleheader sweep on Saturday, 8-5 and 9-8. For the series, the Crimson hit .384 as a team with 30 runs, 43 hits, 27 RBIs, five homers, and five doubles. The Crimson tallied double-figure hits in all three games of the series with 11 hits in game one, 14 hits in game two, and a season-high 18 hits in game three.
• First-year outfielder Liam Wilson earned Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors on Apr. 21 after hitting a walk-off, two-run home run in the Crimson's game two win over Cornell on Apr. 19. Wilson launched his walk-off, two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning in Harvard's 9-8 win over the Big Red, helping the Crimson rally from an 8-5 deficit entering the frame. For the week, he hit .300 (3-for-10) with five runs, two home runs, three RBIs, a .900 slugging percentage, and a .417 OBP.
• Junior Gio Colasante – a member of the John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Year Award Watch List – has hit .393 in Ivy League play with 22 hits, three doubles, 11 RBIs, and three home runs. In conference play, he ranks second in slugging (.607), fourth in homers (three), fifth in average (.393), fifth in total bases (34), seventh in hits (22), and 10^th in OBP (.444). Overall, for the year, he has hit .321 with 34 hits, 21 runs, 19 RBIs, five doubles, and five homers. For the Dartmouth series (Apr. 4-6), he went 7-for-12 (.583) with two doubles, a homer, and five RBIs as a hitter, while tossing five shutout innings as a pitcher to help him earn Ivy League Player of the Week (Apr. 7). He hit 7-for-15 (.467) in the Penn series (Mar. 22-23) with multi-hit games in all three contests.
• Senior outfielder/infielder George Cooper has tallied a team-best .348 batting average alongside 40 hits, 22 runs, eight doubles, five home runs, and a team-best 24 RBIs on the year. Cooper ranks fourth in the league in average (.348), sixth in slugging (.565), seventh in total bases (65), and eighth in hits (40). For the Cornell series (Apr. 19-20), he hit .579 (11-for-19) with nine runs and four doubles. In game three against the Big Red (Apr. 20), he finished 4-for-5 with three RBIs, three runs, and two doubles. He hit homers in three straight games from Mar. 23-28. 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.
• Senior outfielder Matt Giberti has notched a .333 batting average, 34 hits, a team-best 24 runs, and a 14-for-16 effort in stolen bases. He ranks first in the Ivy League in stolen bases (14) and eighth in average (.333). In Ivy only play, he has hit .350 with 21 hits, 13 runs, and seven RBIs. In Ivy competition, he leads the league in stolen bases (seven). In the win over Stonehill (Apr. 15), he went 3-for-5 with his first collegiate home run.
• Sophomore Jack Rickheim has contributed a .291 average with 30 hits, nine RBIs, 18 runs scored, and four doubles. In Ivy play, he has hit .288 with 15 hits and nine runs. He notched the go-ahead RBI in the bottom of the eighth in the 14-13 win over Holy Cross (Mar. 25).
• Junior right-handed pitcher Callan Fang has tallied a 3.76 ERA with 25 strikeouts over 40.2 innings on the year. Fang stands fourth in the league in ERA (3.76) and 10^th in opponents' batting average (.269). In Ivy only play, he ranks second in the conference in innings pitched (34.0), third in strikeouts (30), and eighth in ERA (3.97). He tossed 7.0 innings with seven strikeouts in the win over Yale (Mar. 28) and hurled a career-high 8.0 innings with one run allowed vs. Princeton (Apr. 11). 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 60 strikeouts over 47.0 innings pitched on the year. In the NCAA, Pauley ranks 19^th in hits allowed per nine (5.74) and 53^rd in strikeouts per nine (11.49). In the Ivy League, he ranks first in games started (nine), second in strikeouts (60), second in opponents' batting average (.182), seventh in innings pitched (47.0), and ninth in ERA (5.17). In Ivy only play, he stands second in strikeouts (38), second in opponents' average (.158), and 10^th in ERA (4.28). Pauley brought a no-hitter into the ninth inning against Princeton (Apr. 11), tossing a career-high 8.1 innings with a career-best 12 strikeouts to earn Ivy League Pitcher of the Week (Apr. 15). He hurled 7.0 innings vs. Cornell (Apr. 19), allowing two earned runs with 10 strikeouts. Pauley tossed 6.0 innings in the win at Dartmouth (Apr. 4), allowing no earned runs with six strikeouts. He threw 6.2 innings with nine strikeouts, while allowing two runs at Northeastern (Mar. 15).
• Sophomore right-hander Ryan McHugh leads the Ivy League in saves (three). He tallied saves against Yale (Mar. 28), Princeton (Apr. 11), and Cornell (Apr. 19).
• As a team in Ivy League play, Harvard ranks third in batting average (.278) and third in home runs (12).
• Fenway Park will host this year's Baseball Beanpot on Tuesday, April 29. The college baseball doubleheader will feature Harvard and Northeastern in the championship game at 7:00 p.m. following the third-place matchup between Boston College and Massachusetts at 4:00 p.m. 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. 

Up Next

Harvard will meet Northeastern in the championship game of The Baseball Beanpot on Tuesday, Apr. 29 at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN+/NESN NATION) at Fenway Park before hosting Columbia in a three-game series at O'Donnell Field with a doubleheader on Saturday, May 3 starting at 11:30 a.m. (ESPN+) and a single game on Sunday, May 4 at noon (ESPN+).