CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University baseball will play at Dartmouth College in a three-game Ivy League series with a doubleheader on Friday, Apr. 4 starting at 12:30 p.m. and a single game on Saturday, Apr. 5 at 11:00 a.m. (ESPN+) at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park in Hanover, New Hampshire.

What to Know

• The Crimson (3-18, 1-5 Ivy) meets the Big Green (3-14, 2-4 Ivy) in its third conference weekend of the season in a series that was moved up one day due to weather conditions. The Crimson enters the matchup coming off a 13-5 win over Massachusetts in the semifinals of The Baseball Beanpot on Apr. 1.
• Harvard's weekend rotation is set to feature RHP Callan Fang (1-2, 3.05 ERA) in game one, RHP Truman Pauley (0-5, 8.77 ERA) in game two, and a to-be-determined pitcher in game three. Dartmouth will counter with RHP Nate Isler (1-2, 6.04 ERA) in game one, RHP Eddie Albert (1-2, 6.93 ERA) in game two, and RHP Bryce Loeger (0-5, 5.84 ERA) in game three.
• Harvard holds a 140-132 lead in the all-time series with Dartmouth. Last season, the Crimson took a 2-1 series win in the three-game set with the Big Green. The two teams first met in 1869.
• In the semifinals of The Baseball Beanpot, junior Gio Colasante hit a three-run home run, senior George Cooper tallied three RBIs and three runs scored, and junior left-hander Brian Dowling threw four shutout innings in the start as Harvard beat Massachusetts, 13-5, on Apr. 1 at Earl Lorden Field in Amherst, Massachusetts.
• Senior outfielder/infielder George Cooper has tallied team highs in batting average (.299), hits (23), RBIs (18), and home runs (four) on the year. He ranks fifth in the Ivy League in home runs (four), ninth in RBIs (18), and 10^th in slugging (.532). He 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.
• Senior outfielder Matt Giberti has notched a .295 batting average, 18 hits, 12 runs, and a 9-for-11 effort in stolen bases. He ranks first in the Ivy League in stolen bases (nine). In Ivy only play, he has hit .333 (8-for-24).
• Junior Gio Colasante has hit .360 in Ivy League play with nine hits, two doubles, three RBIs, and a homer. Overall for the year, he has hit .264 with 19 hits, 11 runs, nine RBIs, four doubles, and three homers. He hit 7-for-15 (.467) in the Penn series (Mar. 22-23) with multi-hit games in all three contests.
• Sophomore Jack Rickheim has added a .275 average with 19 hits, six RBIs, nine 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).
• Junior right-handed pitcher Callan Fang has tallied a 3.05 ERA with 18 strikeouts over 20.2 innings on the year. In Ivy only play, he ranks first in the conference 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).
• Harvard is set to host a pair of fan-friendly events as a part of its seven-game homestand in mid-April with Bark at the Park on Apr. 12 and Cambridge Day on Apr. 19. The Crimson's annual Bark at the Park event will feature free giveaways and local dog-friendly vendors while Cambridge Day will bring the Cambridge community together for a day of celebration with giveaways, food trucks, local vendors, and yard games.
• 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 begins a seven-game homestand with a three-game Ivy League series against Princeton with a doubleheader on Saturday, Apr. 12 starting at 11:30 a.m. (ESPN+) and a single game on Sunday, Apr. 13 at noon (ESPN+). The Crimson will host its annual Bark at the Park event as a part of Saturday's doubleheader.