CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University baseball opens its home slate with a three-game Ivy League series vs. Brown University at O'Donnell Field with a doubleheader on Saturday, Apr. 4 at 11:30 a.m. (ESPN+) and a single game on Sunday, Apr. 5 at noon (ESPN+) with the Crimson coming off a 2-1 series win over Cornell.

What to Know

• The Crimson (4-15, 3-3 Ivy) hosts the Bears (11-11, 5-1 Ivy) in its first home games of the year. Harvard enters the weekend tied for third in the Ivy League standings while the Bears sit atop the conference standings. The Crimson has posted a 4-3 record over its last seven games.
• Harvard leads Brown in the all-time series, 204-127-1. The two teams first met in 1868. The Crimson swept last season's series, 3-0.
• Senior infielder/right-handed pitcher Gio Colasante captured Ivy League Player of the Week for the second straight week on Mar. 31. Colasante hit .556 (5-for-9) with five RBIs, three runs, two stolen bases, a home run, a double, and a .692 OBP as a batter in the Cornell series, while posting a 1.12 ERA over 8.0 innings pitched with four strikeouts as a pitcher in Harvard's 2-1 series win over the Big Red.
• Harvard earned a 2-1 series win over Cornell (Mar. 29-30) with a 2-1 win in game one and a 16-3 victory in game three. In the series opener, senior Gio Colasante threw 8.0 innings in the win, and junior Jack Rickehim hit the go-ahead home run in the eighth. In the series, finale, the Crimson tallied season highs in runs (16), RBIs (16), and home runs (five) with Rickheim and senior Max Lane each hitting two homers in the game.
• Senior infielder/right-handed pitcher Gio Colasante won Ivy League Player of the Week honors on Mar. 23 after making an impact as a batter and pitcher in the series finale against CBU and three-game set at Columbia. Colasante hit .412 (7-for-17) on the week across four games with six runs, four RBIs, and two home runs, while throwing 6.0 innings and allowing one run on two hits and two walks with four strikeouts in the win as a starter in game one against Columbia.
• Senior infielder/right-handed pitcher Gio Colasante – a member of the John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Year Award Watch List – has hit .282 on the year with five home runs, 19 RBIs, 20 hits, and 13 runs. As a pitcher, he has notched a 4.88 ERA over 27.2 innings. He leads the Ivy League in home runs (five) and ranks fifth in slugging (.507), sixth in OPS (.888), and sixth in RBIs (19) as well as fifth in opposing average as a pitcher (.219). In Ivy only play, he has posted a .500 average with three homers, nine RBIs, 10 hits, and seven runs. In conference only play, he stands first in the Ancient Eight in home runs (three), first in slugging (1.000), first in OBP (.615), first in OPS (1.615), first in RBIs (nine), second in average (.500), third in runs (seven), and third in hits (10), while ranking second in opposing average (.125), fifth in innings pitched (14.0), and eighth in ERA (1.29) as a pitcher.
• Junior shortstop Jack Rickheim has hit .286 on the season with four home runs, 10 RBIs, 22 hits, 16 runs, and five doubles. In Ivy only play, he has hit .440 with 11 hits, 10 runs, seven RBIs, and three homers. In conference play, he ranks first in home runs (three), first in runs (10), second in hits (11), second in doubles (three), third in slugging (.920), third in OPS (1.420), fifth in RBIs (seven), sixth in average (.440), and seventh in OBP (.500). In the series finale at Cornell (Mar. 30), he went 4-for-6 with two home runs, five RBIs, four runs, and a double.
• Sophomore right-hander Andrew Abler has registered a 5.04 ERA on the year with 21 strikeouts over 30.1 innings. He earned the win in the series finale at Cornell (Mar. 30), throwing 6.0 innings and permitting two runs with a season-high six strikeouts. Abler tallied a season-high six strikeouts over 4.0 innings at Tulane (Feb. 20) before throwing 6.0 innings and permitting just three runs at Liberty (Mar. 8).
• In the series finale at California Baptist (Mar. 16), senior Jordan Kang posted four RBIs, a home run, and a double, and sophomore Gavin Smith registered three RBIs, a homer, and a double as the Crimson outlasted the Lancers, 14-12, for its first victory of the season.
• In its season opening series at Tulane, the Crimson hit .293 as a team with junior Ryan Mooney (.500), first-year Matthew Witkow (.444), senior Jordan Kang (.400, four RBIs), sophomore Liam Wilson (.400, two doubles), and senior Gio Colasante (.364, five RBIs, grand slam) leading the way in the three-game set.
• The Crimson played its first 19 games of the season on the road. The stretch started with four series – at Tulane (Feb. 20-22), at Rice (Feb. 27 to Mar. 1), at Liberty (Mar. 6-8), and at California Baptist (Mar. 13-16) – outside the region. Harvard then played two Ivy series – at Columbia (Mar. 21-22) and at Cornell (Mar. 29-30) to close out the stretch.
• Harvard was selected to finish fourth in the 2026 Ivy League Baseball Preseason Poll. The Crimson totaled 73 points to land in the top half of the eight-team poll. Columbia (118 points, nine first-place votes), Yale (116 points, seven first-place votes), and Penn (100 points) took the poll's top three spots. Princeton (49 points), Cornell (45), Dartmouth (41), and Brown (34) rounded out the poll in order. 

Up Next

Harvard hosts Northeastern in the semifinals of The Baseball Beanpot on Tuesday, Apr. 7 at 3:00 p.m. (ESPN+) before playing a three-game series at Yale with a doubleheader on Saturday, Apr. 11 at 11:30 a.m. (ESPN+) and a single game on Sunday, Apr. 12 at noon (ESPN+).