2016 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series

2016 Ivy League
baseball tournament
Teams2
FormatBest of three series
Finals site
ChampionsPrinceton Tigers (8th title)
2016 Ivy League baseball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T   PCT W   L   T   PCT
Lou Gehrig
Princeton  x‍‍‡‍y 13 – 7 – 0   .650 24 – 21 – 0   .533
Penn  ‍‍‍ 10 – 10 – 0   .500 19 – 22 – 0   .463
Columbia  ‍‍‍ 10 – 10 – 0   .500 17 – 24 – 0   .415
Cornell  ‍‍‍ 7 – 13 – 0   .350 14 – 24 – 0   .368
Red Rolfe
Dartmouth  x‍‍‍ 11 – 9 – 0   .550 18 – 25 – 0   .419
Yale  x‍‍‍ 11 – 9 – 0   .550 19 – 28 – 1   .406
Harvard  ‍‍‍ 9 – 11 – 0   .450 17 – 24 – 0   .415
Brown  ‍‍‍ 9 – 11 – 0   .450 15 – 24 – 0   .385
x – Division champion
‡ – Championship Series champion
y – Invited to the NCAA tournament
As of June 5, 2016[1]
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball


The 2016 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series was held at Bill Clarke Field, home field of the Gehrig Division champion Princeton Tigers on May 14 and 15. The series matched the regular season champions of each of the league's two divisions. Princeton won their league-best eighth championship series and claimed the Ivy League's automatic berth in the 2016 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[2]

Princeton won the Gehrig Division while Dartmouth and Yale tied for the Rolfe Division title with identical 11–9 records. Yale won a one-game playoff on May 7 to advance to the Championship Series.[3]

Results

Game One

May 14, 2016 12:00 pm
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Yale 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 11 1
Princeton 0 2 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 7 9 0
WP: Kukowski   LP: Thomson   Sv: Brodkowitz
Attendance: 350
Boxscore

Game Two

May 15, 2016
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Princeton 0 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 13 1
Yale 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 6 1
WP: Powers   LP: Wanger
Home runs:
P: None
Y: O'Neill
Attendance: 235
Boxscore

Game Three

May 15, 2016 1:00 pm
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Yale 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 1
Princeton 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 6 0
WP: Mingo   LP: Ford
Attendance: 275
Boxscore

References

  1. ^ "Ivy League - 2016 Standings". d1Baseball.com. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
  2. ^ "Ivy League Baseball Championship Series". The Ivy League. Archived from the original on January 28, 2016. Retrieved January 29, 2016.
  3. ^ "Yale Clinches Rolfe Division Title". The Ivy league. May 7, 2016. Archived from the original on June 10, 2016. Retrieved May 7, 2016.