NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Sophomore right-hander
Truman Pauley set a tournament record with 13 strikeouts over nine innings, and junior
Gio Colasante hit his ninth home run of the season, but No. 4 seed Harvard University baseball fell to No. 2 seed Columbia University in 10 innings, 4-1, on Saturday afternoon at George H.W. Bush Field.
Competing in the winner's bracket on day two of the 2025 Ivy League Tournament, the Crimson (13-27) and Lions (26-17) each scored once in the second with neither team scoring again until Columbia brought three runs across in the top of the 10
th.
Harvard will now face No. 1 seed Yale in an elimination game tomorrow – Sunday, May 18 – at noon (ESPN+) in the tournament's third day. The Crimson topped the Bulldogs, 3-1, in the opening game of the tournament on Friday. The winner of the Harvard-Yale matchup will meet Columbia on Sunday at 4:00 p.m. (ESPN+).
Pauley threw a career-high 9.0 innings with a career-best 13 strikeouts, allowing just one unearned run on five hits and two walks and notching double-figure strikeouts for the fourth time this season.
Colasante hit a solo home run in the second and has tallied all four of the Crimson's RBIs in the tournament. He added two strikeouts over 0.2 innings pitched on the mound. As a team, Harvard's pitching staff totaled 15 strikeouts, setting an Ivy League Tournament record.
Gallery: (5-17-2025) Baseball: Ivy Tournament - Game 2
Harvard Highlights
- Sophomore right-handed pitcher Truman Pauley threw a career-high 9.0 innings with a career-best and tournament-record 13 strikeouts. He allowed just one unearned run on five hits and two walks. He posted double-figure strikeouts for the fourth time this season.
- Junior Gio Colasante notched a solo home run – his ninth homer of the year and of his career. He has tallied all four of the Crimson's RBIs thus far in the tournament. Colasante also notched a pair of strikeouts as a pitcher for the final two outs of the 10th inning.
- As a team, Harvard's pitching staff totaled 15 strikeouts, setting an Ivy League Tournament record.
- First-year Liam Wilson went 2-for-4, notching his third multi-hit game of the year.
- Senior George Cooper posted a hit. He now has 188 career hits, tied for sixth all-time in program history.
- Senior William Lybrook, sophomore Tyler Shulman, and first-year Gavin Smith each added a hit. Smith came up with his hit as a pinch hitter in the 10th inning.
- Senior Matt Giberti contributed a walk and a stolen base, improving to 21-for-24 on stolen base attempts on the year.
How It Happened
- The Lions opened the game's scoring with an RBI single in the top of the second to take a 1-0 lead.
- Colasante then launched a solo home run to right center – his ninth homer of the year – to knot the score at 1-1 in the bottom of the second.
- Pauley kept the Lions in check throughout his performance, not allowing an earned run over his nine innings. He tallied eight strikeouts through his first four innings, struck out the side in the fourth, and picked up his 13th strikeout of the day in the ninth.
- In the top of the 10th, Colasante nearly escaped a bases-loaded jam following a strikeout before the Lions scored three runs behind a single through the left side.
- The Crimson threatened in the bottom of the 10th, placing runners on first and third with two outs and bringing the tying run to the plate before the Lions closed the contest.
Next Up
Harvard will now face No. 1 seed Yale in an elimination game tomorrow – Sunday, May 18 – at noon (ESPN+) in the tournament's third day. The winner of the Harvard-Yale matchup will meet Columbia on Sunday at 4:00 p.m. (ESPN+).
