Friday, March 22
New York, N.Y.
12:30 PM
Princeton University
at
Columbia
Brielle Wright and the Tigers will open Ivy League play this weekend at Columbia.
Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast
Updated: Princeton to Open Ivy Season This Weekend at Columbia
March 18, 2024 | Softball
UPDATE: The series has been moved to Friday/Sunday due to expected rain on Saturday.
The reigning Ivy League champions and the preseason pick for the 2024 Ivy League title will open the defense of both on Friday as the first of seven Ivy weekend series begins at Columbia.
at Columbia
Friday, 12:30 p.m. DH | ESPN+ Game 1 | ESPN+ Game 2 | Int'l Video | Live Stats
Sunday, 12:30 p.m. single game | ESPN+ | Int'l Video | Live Stats
So far this season • Princeton enters the weekend at 9-7 overall. The team won the season's first five games for the first 5-0 start in program history, followed with a seven-game skid, and will enter the Ivy opener with a four-game win streak. Columbia stands 4-13 and will look to break a five-game skid this weekend.
Against Columbia • The Tigers have swept both three-game series against Columbia after the pandemic pause and have won seven out of the last eight against the Lions in that time. Columbia's lone win in that time was in the first game of the Ivy League Tournament last year at Princeton, by a 3-1 final with Raquel Reyes going the distance and allowing the run on three hits and four walks, striking out four. The Tigers went on to win the next three in the Ivy tournament, including a rematch against Columbia, that the Tigers won 8-4 with Reyes allowing five runs, three earned, on seven hits and five walks in five innings. Princeton went on to force an if-necessary game against Harvard before the Crimson won that to take the Ivy's automatic NCAA bid.
On Princeton • Brielle Wright entered the week tied for fourth in the nation with four saves and ninth in the nation in strikeout-to-walk ratio with 9.5 Ks for every base on balls. Wright was also 12th nationally in walks allowed per seven innings at 0.75. Allison Ha was 14th-toughest player in the nation to strike out at 45 at-bats per K, and Julia Dumais stood 15th at 0.81 walks per game. Lauren Sablone leads the Tigers with a .340 batting average while rookie Sonia Zhang is also hitting above .300, at .317. Fellow first-year Cassidy Shaw (4-5, 4.81 ERA, 39 1/3 IP) and junior Meghan Harrington (3-2, 5.12 ERA, 26 IP) lead the Tigers in innings pitched.
On Columbia • Jaden Hill leads the Lions with a .314 batting average while Eleni Katsivalis (.310) and Payton Shimansky (.306) are also hitting above .300. Raquel Reyes (3-6, 7.25 ERA, 37 2/3 IP) and Lily McCord (1-2, 9.00, 23 1/3 IP) have thrown 61 of the team's 93 innings.Â
Looking Ahead • The home opener for the Tigers will be on Tuesday, March 26 with a 2:30 p.m. doubleheader against Rider before the Ivy home slate begins on March 30 with a visit from Penn.
The reigning Ivy League champions and the preseason pick for the 2024 Ivy League title will open the defense of both on Friday as the first of seven Ivy weekend series begins at Columbia.
at Columbia
Friday, 12:30 p.m. DH | ESPN+ Game 1 | ESPN+ Game 2 | Int'l Video | Live Stats
Sunday, 12:30 p.m. single game | ESPN+ | Int'l Video | Live Stats
So far this season • Princeton enters the weekend at 9-7 overall. The team won the season's first five games for the first 5-0 start in program history, followed with a seven-game skid, and will enter the Ivy opener with a four-game win streak. Columbia stands 4-13 and will look to break a five-game skid this weekend.
Against Columbia • The Tigers have swept both three-game series against Columbia after the pandemic pause and have won seven out of the last eight against the Lions in that time. Columbia's lone win in that time was in the first game of the Ivy League Tournament last year at Princeton, by a 3-1 final with Raquel Reyes going the distance and allowing the run on three hits and four walks, striking out four. The Tigers went on to win the next three in the Ivy tournament, including a rematch against Columbia, that the Tigers won 8-4 with Reyes allowing five runs, three earned, on seven hits and five walks in five innings. Princeton went on to force an if-necessary game against Harvard before the Crimson won that to take the Ivy's automatic NCAA bid.
On Princeton • Brielle Wright entered the week tied for fourth in the nation with four saves and ninth in the nation in strikeout-to-walk ratio with 9.5 Ks for every base on balls. Wright was also 12th nationally in walks allowed per seven innings at 0.75. Allison Ha was 14th-toughest player in the nation to strike out at 45 at-bats per K, and Julia Dumais stood 15th at 0.81 walks per game. Lauren Sablone leads the Tigers with a .340 batting average while rookie Sonia Zhang is also hitting above .300, at .317. Fellow first-year Cassidy Shaw (4-5, 4.81 ERA, 39 1/3 IP) and junior Meghan Harrington (3-2, 5.12 ERA, 26 IP) lead the Tigers in innings pitched.
On Columbia • Jaden Hill leads the Lions with a .314 batting average while Eleni Katsivalis (.310) and Payton Shimansky (.306) are also hitting above .300. Raquel Reyes (3-6, 7.25 ERA, 37 2/3 IP) and Lily McCord (1-2, 9.00, 23 1/3 IP) have thrown 61 of the team's 93 innings.Â
Looking Ahead • The home opener for the Tigers will be on Tuesday, March 26 with a 2:30 p.m. doubleheader against Rider before the Ivy home slate begins on March 30 with a visit from Penn.
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