Yale needs a sweep of archrival Harvard in its final Ivy League series of the year to clinch a spot in the conference tournament
Yale (16-22) has one path keep playing beyond Sunday — sweeping Harvard (12-24) in a three-game series that opens with the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday morning at George H.W. Bush ’48 Field in New Haven, Connecticut. The rest of the conference has finished its Ivy campaigns, with the Bulldogs able to move up from its current fifth-place spot to the No. 2 seed with a sweep. But one loss eliminates Yale and sends Penn to the tourney as the No. 4 seed along with top-seeded Columbia, Princeton and Cornell. The Bulldogs seek their first NCAA tourney bid since 2017 while the Crimson will miss the postseason for the fourth consecutive season.
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Yale took two of three last weekend from Brown to improve to 9-9 in the conference. Penn and Cornell are each 11-10 but have head-to-head tiebreakers over the Bulldogs. With a sweep, Yale would move ahead of Princeton at 12-9 for the second seed based on a head-to-head tiebreaker. Alec Atkinson hits .326/.420/.428 while Davis Hanson leads the team with eight home runs and 32 RBI.
While Harvard won the series finale on April 28 against Penn, dropping the first two games sealed its fate. Ben Rounds powers the offense with a .420/.518/.717 slash line to go with eight home runs and 32 RBI.
Neither team disclosed its pitching rotation in advance of the series.
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