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Princeton University Athletics
Midweek Matchup With Seton Hall Up Next for Baseball
April 12, 2005 | Baseball
April 12, 2005
Princeton, N.J. - The Princeton baseball team hosts Seton Hall this afternoon at 3:30 p.m. The game is Princeton's final game before the Gehrig Division season starts up this weekend at Penn. The game is Princeton's first at Clarke Field after two weeks of playing on the road and brings to end a stretch in which Princeton will have played 10 games in eight days.
Princeton (10-15, 5-3 Ivy) enters today's game with just one win in its last five games. After sweeping Yale and Brown early last week, the Tigers dropped a midweek decision to Monmouth and were then swept by Dartmouth on Saturday before splitting at Harvard on Sunday. Princeton's win at Harvard handed the Crimson its first Ivy loss of the season.
Princeton will play at home for the first time since a 3-2 win over Rutgers on March 30. Princeton had a home league series schedule for April 2-3, but weather and poor field conditions forced those games to be played away from Clarke Field.
The Tigers are now 5-3 in the Ivy League and have a two-game lead (four in the loss column) on Penn (5-7) in the Gehrig Division standings. Cornell (1-5) and Columbia (1-11) round out the division. In the race for home field advantage in the Ivy League Championship Series, Harvard, at 7-1, has a one-game edge on Dartmouth and a two game lead on the Tigers, Brown and Yale.
Today's Game
3:30 p.m. • Seton Hall at Princeton
TBA vs. Wills Sweney (0-3, 10.38 ERA)
Clarke Field • Princeton, N.J.
Livestats for the game will be available through GameTracker. A link can be found on the schedule page.
Seton Hall (8-19, 2-8 Big East) enters today's non-conference game with one win in its last four games. Over the weekend, the Pirates went 1-2 in a league series at Villanova to fall to 2-8 in the Big East. Princeton and Seton Hall have faced three common opponents: Monmouth, North Carolina and Stony Brook. Seton Hall defeated Monmouth, lost to Stony Brook and dropped three games at North Carolina, while the Tigers fell at Monmouth, went 2-2 against Stony Brook and dropped three at UNC. Last season the Tigers suffered an 11-5 defeat at Seton Hall. Princeton won the meeting a season earlier, 5-3, in a game played at Clarke Field. Senior Will Venable and junior Andrew Salini each had a pair of hits in the loss.
Looking Forward
This weekend Princeton's play four games at Penn in a match up between the Gehrig Division's two top teams. Princeton is 23-5 against Penn since 1998.