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Princeton University Athletics
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Home-and-Home With Cornell Up Next for Baseball Team
April 30, 2010 | Baseball
Princeton enters the weekend following a mid-week non-conference win at Rider on Wednesday. The game went back-and-forth with Rider leading by as many as four and Princeton on top by three before Rider rallied late to force extra innings before the Tigers won in 12 innings. Princeton scored 12 runs on 17 hits in the win.
John Mishu led the way with four hits in the win and extended his hitting streak to eight games. The four-hit day pushed him atop the team in batting average at .317, nine points better than Noel Gonzales-Luna, who is now batting .308. Princeton also has three batters batting between .290 and .300 in Brian Berkowitz, Sam Mulroy and Nate Baird.
Princeton will look to build off the momentum from Wednesday's win this weekend against Cornell. The Tigers and Big Red split both doubleheaders last year, but the Tigers have had the better of the series with Cornell in recent history. Princeton has either won three of four games or swept the series in five of the last eight years.
Cornell is 14-19 overall and 6-10 in the Ivy League. The Big Red sits one game ahead of Princeton in the Gehrig Division standings. Cornell is enters the weekend having won three of its last five games, splitting last weekend's Gehrig series with Columbia and topping Binghamton Wednesday in non-league play.