CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University baseball meets the University of Massachusetts in the third-place game of The Baseball Beanpot on Tuesday, Apr. 14 at 2:00 p.m. at Boston College's Eddie Pellagrini Diamond at the Harrington Athletics Village in Brighton, Massachusetts.

What to Know

• The Crimson (6-19, 5-6 Ivy) squares off with the Minutemen (9-18, 5-13 Ivy) in a re-match of the 2024 third-place game that also took place at BC with the Crimson taking a 10-3 decision. No. 24 Boston College (26-12, 11-7 ACC) hosts Northeastern (20-15, 10-5 CAA) in the championship game at 6:00 p.m.
• The Crimson holds a 35-21 advantage in the all-time series with Massachusetts. The two teams first met in 1914.
• Harvard holds a 22-40-1 all-time record in The Beanpot which began in 1990. The Crimson has gone 8-11 against UMass in the tournament and has posted a 4-11-1 mark in the consolation round.
• Senior infielder/right-handed pitcher Gio Colasante – a member of the John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Year Award Watch List – has hit .287 on the year with six home runs, 22 RBIs, 27 hits, and 15 runs. As a pitcher, he has notched a 3.89 ERA over 40.2 innings. He ranks first in the Ivy League in home runs (six), second in slugging (.532), and fourth in OPS (.914) as well as fourth in opposing average (.207), sixth in wins (three), and ninth in ERA (3.98) as a pitcher. In Ivy only play, he has posted a .415 average with four homers, 12 RBIs, 17 hits, and nine runs as a batter while posting a 1.67 ERA and 3-0 record over 27.0 innings as a pitcher. In conference only play, he stands first in the Ancient Eight in home runs (four), first in OPS (1.329), first in slugging (.829), second in RBIs (12), third in hits (17), fourth in OBP (.500), and fifth in batting average (.415), while ranking first in wins (three), second in opposing average (.151), third in ERA (1.67), and third in innings pitched (27.0) as a pitcher.
• Junior shortstop Jack Rickheim has hit .283 on the season with five home runs, 15 RBIs, 28 hits, 21 runs, and seven doubles. In Ivy only play, he has hit .356 with 16 hits, 15 runs, 11 RBIs, and four homers. Rickheim ranks fourth in the Ivy League in homers (five) and sixth in slugging (.505). In conference only play, he stands first in home runs (four), first in runs (15), third in doubles (five), third in slugging (.733), third in OPS (1.153), and ninth in batting average (.356). In the series finale at Cornell (Mar. 30), he went 4-for-6 with two home runs, five RBIs, four runs, and a double.
• Senior outfielder Max Lane has hit .293 in conference play with two home runs, nine RBIs, 12 hits, five runs, and three doubles. In the series finale at Cornell (Mar. 30), he went 3-for-4 with two home runs, seven RBIs, three runs, and a double.
• Sophomore right-hander Andrew Abler has registered a 4.54 ERA on the year with 27 strikeouts over 41.2 innings. Abler ranks 10^th in the Ivy League in ERA (4.54). He earned the win in the series finale at Cornell (Mar. 30), throwing 6.0 innings and permitting two runs – both unearned – 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).
• Out of the bullpen, first-year left-hander Brett Gable and junior right-hander Ryan McHugh have both registered ERAs under 2.00. McHugh has posted a 1.76 ERA with 12 strikeouts over 15.1 innings with two saves while Gable has notched a 1.84 ERA with 13 strikeouts over 14.2 innings with two saves. In conference play, Gable has registered a 0.00 ERA with five strikeouts over 6.2 innings, and McHugh has compiled a 1.04 ERA with five strikeouts over 8.2 innings.
• 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. 

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Harvard hosts Dartmouth in an Ivy League series with a doubleheader on Saturday, Apr. 18 at 11:30 a.m. (ESPN+) and a single game on Sunday, Apr. 19 at noon (ESPN+).