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Princeton University Athletics
Wednesday, March 28
New Brunswick, N.J.
3:00 PM
Princeton University
at
Rutgers
Photo by: Beverly Schaefer
Princeton Clashes With Rutgers Wednesday
March 27, 2018 | Baseball
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| Gametimes | Wed. Mar. 28 - 3:00 p.m. l Bainton Field |
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PRINCETON, N.J. – After snow prevented Ivy play from getting started, the Princeton Tigers travel on the road to take on the Rutgers Scarlet Knights on Wednesday at Bainton Field (3 p.m.).
What Did You Missed?
- Not much. After Nor'easter Toby dropped snow on the tri-state area, Clarke Field was unable to host. After an exhaustive search of potential alternate baseball locations, Princeton was unable to find a suitable venue that could host last weekend's series versus Harvard. The Harvard series will be made up as a mid-week Tuesday/ Wednesday series at future agreed upon dates.
- Prior to that, the two games vs. Old Dominion were cancelled.
- Joseph Flynn has had a wonderful start to the 2018 season with three home runs and 12 RBI. He has a .362/.404/.574 slash line, all of which lead the team.
- Freshman Sy Snedeker is second on the squad with five extra base hits. He's hitting .257 with a .486 slugging percentage.
- Jesper Horsted has three straight multi-hit outings, going 6-of-13 with four runs scored.
- The Tigers return three All-Ivy players from a year ago including David Harding with a second team All-Ivy honor. Asher Lee Tyson and Jesper Horsted were All-Ivy honorable mention.
- Harding led the team with a .318 batting average, snagging 35 hits, 14 runs scored and 19 RBI. He slugged .400 and posted an on-base percentage of .364. The utility player began Ivy League play with hits in four straight contests. He picked up eight RBI in a double dip at Harvard (Apr. 9), leading to Ivy Rookie of the Week accolades (Apr. 11). Other top conference performances include multi-hit outings vs. Penn (Apr. 15-16) and a season-best four hits vs. Columbia (Apr. 21).
- Asher Lee-Tyson had a team-high 22 runs scored and was tied for second in hits (33), walks (17) and RBI (19). The shortstop got off to a slow start with an 0-for-15 stretch before collecting consecutive multi-hit games at UNC-Greensboro (Mar. 11-12). Lee-Tyson hit .312 with a team-best 18 runs scored after Mar. 21. He collected an 11-game hitting streak to start Ivy League play (Apr. 2-15), hitting .302 with 18 total bases and eight runs scored during that stretch.
- Horsted finished third on the team in hitting (.281). Horsted started conference action with hits in four straight games (Apr. 2-8) before recording multi-hit games at Harvard and at Penn (Apr. 9-15). He completed his season by hitting .352 in the month of April with seven extra-base hits. The multi-sport athlete, who was first team All-Ivy League in football during the fall.
- Some other offensive contributors include Ramzi Haddad (.248/.322/.343) and Conor Nolan (.259/.344/.294). The two sophomores combined for 11 extra base hits and 17 RBI in 2017.
- Ben Gross had the top ERA last season on the pitching staff, throwing to a 3.93 ERA in nine starts. He struck out 41 hitters in 50 1/3 innings.
- James Proctor made nine starts for the Tigers last season, throwing 46 innings while Ryan Smith (3.82 ERA) and Eli Kimbell (14 appearances) were the top two pitchers out of the bullpen.
- The Tigers had three alums make the Big League last season in Matt Bowman '14, Danny Barnes and Chris Young '02.
- Bowman finished his second year with the St. Louis Cardinals with another sub-4.00 ERA (3.99). He was tied for seventh in all of baseball with 75 appearances, adding three wins, two saves and 46 strikeouts in 58 2/3 innings of work.
- Barnes completed his first full season with the Blue Jays, posting a 3.55 ERA in 60 outings of the bullpen. He had 62 strikeouts in 66 innings, earned three victories and finished 13 games for the Blue Jays.
- Seven other alums, Ross Ohlendorf '05 (Japan), David Hale '11 (AAA), Jack Murphy (AAA), Mike Ford '14 (AAA), Alec Keller '14 (AA), Cameron Mingo '16 (A) and Danny Hoy '16 (A), played professional baseball last season.
- Ford was selected by the Seattle Mariners in the MLB Rule 5 Draft this winter.
- The Scarlet Knights are 13-8 this season, highlighted by wins over No. 9 Miami, No. 27 Florida Gulf Coast.
- Kyle Walker leads the team in hitting at .426. Three other players, Carmen Sclafani (.346), Luke Bowerbank (.342) and Kevin Blum (.324) are also hitting over .300.
- Colin Kernan has appeared in 10 games for the Scarlet Knights and sits with 1.54 ERA.
- Eric Heatter has been Rutgers' best starter with 3.46 ERA in five games (four starts).
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