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Photo by: Beverly Schaefer
Baseball Wraps Up Regular Season Against Cornell
April 27, 2017 | Baseball
| Cornell Big Red | |
| Gametimes | vs. Cornell l Friday, Apr. 28 - 12:00 p.m l Clarke Field |
| vs. Cornell l Friday, Apr. 28 - 2:30 p.m l Clarke Field | |
| at Cornell l Sun, Apr. 30 - 12:00 p.m l Hoy Field | |
| at Cornell l Sun, Apr. 30 - 2:30 p.m l Hoy Field | |
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| All-Time Series | Princeton leads Cornell, 143-93-2 |
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| Cornell (19-15, 7-9 Ivy)* | |
PRINCETON, N.J. - The Princeton Tigers will wrap up the 2017 season with a four-game set vs. Gehrig Division rival, Cornell, on Friday and Sunday. The Tigers and Big Red will battle at Clarke Field on Friday (12 p.m.) before making the trip to Ithaca, N.Y., on Sunday (12 p.m.).
The Week That Was:
- Behind a stellar performance from Andrew Gnazzo and a two-run home run from Asher Lee-Tyson, the Princeton Tigers took down the No. 22 St. John's Red Storm, 4-2, at Jack Kaiser Stadium on Wednesday evening.
- Gnazzo went five innings, the longest outing of his season. He struck out three hitters and scattered four hits in scoring his first career victory. Paul Tupper had a team-best three hits while Alex Dickinson and Lee-Tyson had multi-hit games. Conor Nolan pitched the final four innings, allowing just two hits, punching out three hitters, earning his first career save.
- The Columbia Lions collected two Ivy League victories over the Princeton Tigers on last Friday. The Lions held off the Tigers, 6-4, in game one and picked up a 5-4 decision in game two.
- After games were pushed back from Saturday to Sunday, the Lions recorded a 15-2 decision and 21-5 victory over Princeton.
- David Harding maintains the team's top batting average at .330. The freshman has 43 total bases, 14 runs and 17 RBI. He has seen time at second base and left field as well.
- Harding has been even better against Ivy opponents as he is currently hitting .388 in 15 games.
- Perhaps the most-steady bat in the Tigers' lineup, Nick Hernandez sits with a .319/.365/.459 slash line. He leads the team in RBI (22), total bases (62), slugging percentage and extra base hits (11).
- In the month of April, Jesper Horsted had posted a .333 average and a .389 on-base percentage. The outfielder raised his batting average 95 points this month and currently has a .258 average overall.
- Cody Phillips was great against Columbia, going 7-for-11 with three doubles.
- Princeton has five players hitting over .300 against Ivy foes with Harding, Hernandez and Asher Lee-Tyson each collecting 11 RBI.
- Two other major contributors on offense for the Tigers have been freshmen Conor Nolan and Ramzi Haddad.
- Nolan is hitting .263 this year with 24 total bases and a team-lead nine steals.
- Haddad has eight extra base hits along with 10 walks this year.
- In his last two starts, Chad Powers has struck out 13 hitters, allowing just three earned runs in 14 innings. Opponents are hitting .188 during that span while Powers has lowered his ERA from 4.40 to 3.63.
- Ben Gross has 3.95 ERA in eight starts for Princeton this season. He has punched out 39 hitters in 43 1/3 frames.
- Ryan Smith has appeared in 19 games in 2017, tied for the ninth highest for a single-season in program history. The sophomore has 33 strikeouts and four saves.
- Cornell is 18-15 this season and 7-9 in the Ivy League. The Big Red have recorded victories over Navy, George Mason, Campbell, Michigan State, Bucknell, Yale, Towson, Harvard, Dartmouth, Binghamton, Columbia and Penn.
- The Big Red bats are hitting at a .289 clip, good for second best in the Ivy League. Dale Wickham boasts a .383 average to lead the Big Red.
- Ryan Krainz has a .348 average with a .460 on-base percentage and team-best seven steals.
- Paul Balestrieri has been Cornell's top starter with 2.52 ERA in eight starts. He has 34 strikeouts in 50 innings of work.
- The Big Red have three quality relievers in Jamie Flynn, Matt Horton and Peter Lannoo. Flynn has a 0.59 ERA in 11 games while Horton boasts 2.19 ERA and two wins. Lannoo has eight saves in 14 appearances.
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