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Baseball Travels to Dartmouth and Harvard
April 03, 2009 | Baseball
The Princeton baseball team travels to Dartmouth and Harvard this weekend with hopes of rebounding from a tough first weekend of Ivy League play. Princeton visits Dartmouth Saturday and then goes to Harvard on Sunday.
The Tigers went 1-3 to open the league campaign last weekend, splitting with Yale, before dropping two to Brown. Despite the loss, the Tigers sit just one game behind in the Gehrig Division standings as the Rolfe Division had the better of play last weekend. Cornell and Columbia each went 2-2 last weekend, with Princeton going 1-3. Penn was 0-4. On the other side, Dartmouth jumped ahead of the pack with four wins, while Brown went 3-1. Both Yale and Harvard are 2-2.
This weekend Princeton will look to find the recipe that helped it to series wins at William & Mary and Navy earlier this year. The Tigers were outscored 23-14 last weekend and will have to reverse that this weekend in their trip to the two northernmost Ivies.
Last Saturday against Yale, the Tigers dropped the first game of the doubleheader 6-0 as Yale's starter held the Tigers to just a single hit over nine innings. It appeared as though Yale's pitching might slow down the Tigers again in the nightcap, but Princeton used a seven-run eight inning to erase a 3-2 deficit and take the win. Senior Dan DeGeorge and junior Brian Berkowitz each had two-run doubles in Princeton's big inning, which made a winner out of senior starter Brad Gemberling.
On Sunday, Brown used a trio of pitchers to stymie the Tigers and hold Princeton to five runs. Conversely, Brown had a combined 25 hits in the two games and scored 14 runs for the sweep. Princeton then dropped a midweek game at Monmouth. DeGeorge homered, scored two and drove in two in the loss.
Princeton visits Dartmouth, the last remaining unbeaten team in Ivy play, on Saturday in New Hampshire. Dartmouth swept both Penn and Columbia last weekend and then defeated Siena on Wednesday in non-league play. The Big Green is 6-9 overall and 4-0 in the Ivy League entering the weekend.
The weekend continues Sunday at Harvard. The Crimson went 2-2 last weekend to open the Ivy season, being swept at Columbia and then sweeping Penn. Harvard is 4-16 overall and fell to Holy Cross in non-league action on Wednesday.
Pitching Probables
Game 1: David Hale (1-1, 2.70 ERA) vs. Robert Young (1-1, 6.23 ERA)
Game 2: Brad Gemberling (3-0, 5.88 ERA) vs. Ben Murray (1-0, 7.88 ERA)
Game 3: David Palms (1-2, 4.57 ERA) vs. tba (0-0, 0.00 ERA)
Game 4: Langford Stuber (2-2, 5.82 ERA) vs. tba (0-0, 0.00 ERA)