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Baseball Gets Gehrig Division Play Underway vs. Penn This Weekend
April 14, 2016 | Baseball
| Princeton vs. Penn |
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| Gametimes | Princeton vs. Penn l Saturday, Apr. 16 - 12:00 p.m l Clarke Field |
| Princeton vs. Penn l Saturday, Apr. 16 - 2:30 p.m l Clarke Field | |
| Princeton vs. Penn l Sunday, Apr. 17 - 12:00 p.m l Clarke Field | |
| Princeton vs. Penn l Sunday, Apr. 17 - 2:30 p.m l Clarke Field | |
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Princeton leads Penn, 154-104-3 |
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PRINCETON, N.J. - The Princeton baseball team heads into a big Ivy League weekend as it takes on the Penn Quakers in a four-game set at Clarke Field. The Tigers are one game up on the Quakers in the Gehrig Division. The two teams will play a doubleheader on Saturday (Apr. 16) and Sunday (Apr. 17).
THE WEEK THAT WAS
- Princeton scored five times in the third inning en route to a 9-4 victory over the St. John's Red Storm at Jack Kaiser Stadium on Wednesday evening.
- Senior Danny Hoy continued his hot hitting with two more hits vs. St. John's. Three other Princeton players had at least two hits.
- Freshman Ryan Smith gave up one run in three relief innings to pick up his first career win.
- Less than one week after Princeton posted dramatic home sweeps against both Dartmouth and Harvard, the Tigers suffered their first two losses of the Ivy season during a road doubleheader in New Haven, Conn against Yale on Saturday. One big inning for the Bulldogs in both games (6-3, 6-1) were enough to lead Yale to a 4-2 league mark in the Rolfe Division, while the Tigers fell to 4-2 in the Gehrig Division.
- Game 1 was a thriller. Game 2 was a record breaker. Both were Princeton victories vs. Brown on Sunday.
- One game after fighting out of a bases-loaded jam in the bottom of the seventh inning for an 11-9 victory, Princeton scored 25 runs to complete a Sunday sweep of Brown and remain in first place in the Gehrig Division entering divisional play.
- The Tigers broke a program record with 36 runs in a doubleheader. Zack Belski helped power Princeton in the nightcap with a Princeton-record eight RBIs, topping a record that has stood for 84 years and been shared by six Princeton players.
- The 25 runs are the most Princeton has scored in a game since May 7, 1992 (Monmouth), and the second-most in program history; on March 29, 1974, Princeton scored 29 in a win over Ursinus.
ON A ROLL
- Over the weekend, Belski had 12 RBI and four extra base hits. He had seven hits in 16 at-bats and also scored three times, leading to him being named Ivy League Co-Player of the Week.
- Hoy is 10 for his last 16 (.625) with nine runs scored and six RBI.
- Junior Danny Baer had a team-best five extra base hits against Yale and Brown, finishing with a 1.222 slugging percentage.
- Princeton got home runs from Belski, Hoy, junior Nick Hernandez and senior Billy Arendt in the team's 2-2 weekend against Yale and Brown.
ON THE HILL
- Every starter that has made at least four starts has an ERA of 3.79 or lower.
- Junior Chad Powers leads the staff with a 3.11 ERA in 37 innings.
- The Tigers' pitching staff has thrown five complete games.
- Senior Luke Strieber lead the team with 22 strikeouts.
- Seven different Tigers have at least 10 strikeouts.
BATTING AROUND
- Jesper Horsted leads the team with a .323 batting average, but does not have enough at-bats to qualify for the Ivy League leaders.
- Hoy is right outside the top ten in the Ivy League in average (.311) and is tied for the team-lead in hits with 33.
- Belski's 21 RBI is tied for the Ivy League lead.
- Hoy and Belski have a team-high three home runs each.
- Hoy's 25 runs scored is the best in the conference. He sits with a .311/.376/.436 slash line while his 46 total bases are in the top 10 among Ivy League foes.
SCOUTING PENN
- The Penn Quakers is 13-15 on the season and 5-3 in the Ivy League.
- The Quakers have nabbed victories over North Florida, Holy Cross, Binghamton, Lehigh, Lafayette, Villanova, Brown, Yale, Dartmouth and Harvard.
- Gary Tesch has the Ivy League's best batting average (.376). His 21 runs scored is second in the league and his .434 on-base percentage is fourth.
- Matt O'Neill's is tied for sixth in the conference in average (.321). He has two home runs, 16 RBI and .476 slugging percentage.
- Gabe Kleiman boasts the best ERA on the Quakers' pitching staff at 1.82. He is 3-1 with 22 strikeouts in 34 2/3 innings.
- Billy Lescher is tied for the Ivy League lead with four wins. He is 4-1 in 2016 with 2.48 ERA and 29 strikeouts in 29 innings.
- Jake Nelson's four saves leads the Ivy League. He sports a 1.84 ERA in nine appearances.
- The Quakers went 22-15 in 2015 and 12-4 in the Ivy League. They lost 4-2 in the Gehrig Division playoff to Columbia.
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