Baseball Begins Ivy Play at Clarke Field Against Cornell This Weekend

Saturday, March 31

Princeton, N.J.

11:30 AM

Princeton University

Cornell

Photo by: Graz Giglio

Baseball Begins Ivy Play at Clarke Field Against Cornell This Weekend

March 30, 2018 | Baseball

Cornell Big Red
Game Times	Saturday, Mar. 31 - 11:30 a.m l Clarke Field
	Saturday, Mar. 31 - 2:30 p.m l Clarke Field
	Sun, Apr. 1 - 1:00 p.m l Clarke Field
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All-Time Series	Princeton leads Cornell, 146-98-2
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Princeton, N.J. - The Princeton Tigers will finally get Ivy League play started at Clarke Field this weekend against the Cornell Big Red. A doubleheader will start Saturday (Mar. 31) at 11:30 a.m. The series finale takes place Sunday (Apr. 1) at 1 p.m. Each game will be streamed on the Ivy League Network.

What Did You Miss?

The Princeton Tigers (3-10) earned their first victory over the Rutgers Scarlet Knights (13-9) since 2011 with a 6-5 decision at Bainton Field on Wednesday afternoon.
Conor Nolan hit his second career home run while Joseph Flynn and David Harding added two hits. Princeton finished with 10 walks and nine hits in the victory. Senior Kevin Thomsen earned his first career win and Eli Kimbell nabbed his second save of the season.

What's Going On?

Flynn leads the squad in hitting (.373), slugging (.569), on-base percentage (.421), hits (19), home runs (three), RBI (14) and total bases (29).
Nolan is second on the team in home runs (two) and RBI (11). His 11 RBI already surpasses his total from last year.
Princeton has three others players hitting at least .260 in Asher Lee-Tyson (.280), Sy Snedeker (.270) and Ramzi Haddad (.263). Snedeker is slugging .514 as well with six extra-base hits.
The pitching staff is averaging 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings among players who have made at least two starts.
Princeton's staff has four pitchers with an ERA under 3.00 in Jack Anderson (4 appearances), Eric Rojas (three appearances), Thomsen (three appearances) and Kimbell (four appearances).
Kimbell has two saves and 13 strikeouts in 11.1 innings.

2018 Team:

The Tigers return three All-Ivy players from a year ago including David Harding with a second team All-Ivy honor. Asher Lee Tyson and Jesper Horsted were All-Ivy honorable mention.
Harding led the team with a .318 batting average, snagging 35 hits, 14 runs scored and 19 RBI. He slugged .400 and posted an on-base percentage of .364. The utility player began Ivy League play with hits in four straight contests. He picked up eight RBI in a double dip at Harvard (Apr. 9), leading to Ivy Rookie of the Week accolades (Apr. 11). Other top conference performances include multi-hit outings vs. Penn (Apr. 15-16) and a season-best four hits vs. Columbia (Apr. 21).
Asher Lee-Tyson had a team-high 22 runs scored and was tied for second in hits (33), walks (17) and RBI (19). The shortstop got off to a slow start with an 0-for-15 stretch before collecting consecutive multi-hit games at UNC-Greensboro (Mar. 11-12). Lee-Tyson hit .312 with a team-best 18 runs scored after Mar. 21. He collected an 11-game hitting streak to start Ivy League play (Apr. 2-15), hitting .302 with 18 total bases and eight runs scored during that stretch.
Horsted finished third on the team in hitting (.281). Horsted started conference action with hits in four straight games (Apr. 2-8) before recording multi-hit games at Harvard and at Penn (Apr. 9-15). He completed his season by hitting .352 in the month of April with seven extra-base hits. The multi-sport athlete, who was first team All-Ivy League in football during the fall.
Some other offensive contributors include Ramzi Haddad (.248/.322/.343) and Conor Nolan (.259/.344/.294). The two sophomores combined for 11 extra base hits and 17 RBI in 2017.
Ben Gross had the top ERA last season on the pitching staff, throwing to a 3.93 ERA in nine starts. He struck out 41 hitters in 50 1/3 innings.
James Proctor made nine starts for the Tigers last season, throwing 46 innings while Ryan Smith (3.82 ERA) and Eli Kimbell (14 appearances) were the top two pitchers out of the bullpen.

Princeton Professionals

The Tigers had three alums make the Big League last season in Matt Bowman '14, Danny Barnes and Chris Young '02.
Bowman finished his second year with the St. Louis Cardinals with another sub-4.00 ERA (3.99). He was tied for seventh in all of baseball with 75 appearances, adding three wins, two saves and 46 strikeouts in 58 2/3 innings of work.
Barnes completed his first full season with the Blue Jays, posting a 3.55 ERA in 60 outings of the bullpen. He had 62 strikeouts in 66 innings, earned three victories and finished 13 games for the Blue Jays.
Seven other alums, Ross Ohlendorf '05 (Japan), David Hale '11 (AAA), Jack Murphy (AAA), Mike Ford '14 (AAA), Alec Keller '14 (AA), Cameron Mingo '16 (A) and Danny Hoy '16 (A), played professional baseball last season.
Ford was selected by the Seattle Mariners in the MLB Rule 5 Draft this winter.

Scouting Cornell

The Big Red are 3-9 this season with victories over Fordham, Niagra and Penn State.
Kyle Gallagher leads the Big Red in hitting at .381 in 41 at-bats. He's also leading the squad in slugging (.476) and on-base percentage (.527). Cornell is only hitting .215 as a team this year.
Andrew Ellison has the best ERA on the squad (3.68).
Tim Willittes (5.68 ERA), Seth Urbon (5.73 ERA) and Tyler Fernandez (9.72 ERA) will be starting for the Big Red.