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Princeton University Athletics
Baseball Set For Regular Season Ivy Finale With Cornell
April 29, 2004 | Baseball
April 29, 2004
Princeton, N.J. - The Princeton baseball team (21-17; 9-7 Ivy) meets its travel-partner Cornell (11-26; 5-10 Ivy) this weekend in the regular season finale of the Ivy League season. The series starts with a doubleheader at Cornell on Friday and concludes with a twin bill Sunday afternoon at Clarke Field. Princeton needs one win in the four scheduled games to clinch the Gehrig Division title and return to the Ivy League Championship Series for the ninth consecutive season.
Princeton currently stands 9-7 in the Ivy League and atop the Gehrig Division. Columbia is second with a record of 8-11 and Cornell is third at 5-10. Columbia has one game remaining with Cornell, while Cornell has four with Princeton and the one with Columbia. One victory would lift Princeton to 10-7 where neither Cornell nor Columbia would be able to catch the Tigers in the standings.
Princeton enters the weekend on a three-game skid. The Tigers posted a pair of lopsided wins over Penn last Saturday, but on Sunday, the bounces went the other way and Penn left town with both wins. Then the Tigers dropped a tight mid-week contest at St. John's 6-4 Tuesday night. Princeton now stands at 21-17 on the season. Cornell enters the weekend with two wins in its last five games. Last weekend the Big Red dropped two of three games to Columbia and the fourth was rained out. Then on Wednesday, Cornell split a doubleheader with Siena at Hoy Field.
Princeton is 114-73-2 all-time against Cornell and is 14-10 against the Big Red in Scott Bradley's tenure. Last season the Tigers took three of four games from Cornell as they clinched both the Gehrig Division and home field in the ILCS in that series.
Should Princeton clinch the Gehrig Division this weekend, odds are that the Tigers will visit Dartmouth for the Ivy League Championship Series on May 8-9. Dartmouth currently has a two-game lead over Harvard in the Red Rolfe Division. Naturally, the two teams play each other this weekend. Dartmouth needs one win in the series to clinch at least a tie and two to clinch the Division. Harvard needs three to force a tie and has to sweep all four contests to win the division. If the team's finish the regular season tied, there will be a one-game playoff to determine who advances. Regardless of who wins, that team will host the Championship Series.