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Princeton University Athletics
Baseball Will Play For Ivy Title On The Road
May 06, 2002 | Baseball
May 6, 2002
PRINCETON, NJ - The Princeton baseball team clinched its seventh-straight Gehrig Division title against Cornell on Sunday and will meet either Harvard or Brown in the Ivy League Championship Series this weekend. The winner will receive the league's automatic bid into the NCAA tournament. The Tigers have won the last two Ivy titles. They needed three games to defeat Dartmouth in Hanover last season, and two to beat the Big Green at Clarke field in 2000.
The Tigers will be on the road for the series regardless of who wins the playoff game between the Crimson and the Bears, which will be held in Cambridge on Wednesday. All three teams finished the regular season with 13-7 league records. Harvard earned the hosting honors by virtue of its sweep of Princeton earlier in the season. Brown and Harvard split their head-to-head games this year so the next tiebreaker is based on their results against the next best team in the standings, which in this case is Princeton. Brown split with Princeton in Providence earlier this season.
The host of the Ivy League Championship series is determined using the same factors, and as a result the team that wins on Wednesday will host the series this weekend. Both the Bears and the Crimson have a better in-season winning percentage against the other 13-7 teams. Harvard is 4-2 (.667) against Brown and Princeton. Brown is 3-3 (.500) against Princeton and Harvard. Princeton went 1-3 (.250) against Harvard and Brown.
The best-of-three championship series will commence with a doubleheader beginning at noon on Saturday, May 11. The third game, if needed, will be held on Sunday, May 12 at 1 p.m. The hosting team will bat last in games one and three, while the traveling team will bat last in game two. All games will be nine innings.
Princeton will travel to Pace for a 3:30 p.m. game tomorrow afternoon in its last action before playing for the Ivy title.