The Bulldogs opened the Ivy League season with a loss at Columbia on Saturday.

In a wild ninth inning, the Lions scored the walk-off with seven runs in the final frame.  The comeback came after the Bulldogs scored three in the eighth and five in the ninth to take a 10-4 lead to the bottom of the last inning.

Harry Hegeman, playing in his first Ivy game, drove in five runs with two doubles to lead the offensive attack for Yale.  Scott Politz pitched the first seven innings for the Bulldogs and allowed four runs (three earned).  

It was Hegeman's three-run double in the eighth to score Benny Wanger, Alex Stiegler and Griffin Dey to give Yale a 5-4 lead.  

In the ninth, the Bulldogs tacked on runs on a Stiegler groundout RBI, a Cal Christofori run-scoring single and a Tom Ruddy single. Hegeman tripled to drive in two runs.  

Whiteman, Dey and Stiegler all had two hits apiece.  Dey, Stiegler and Wanger each scored two runs. 

After Politz exited the game, Stiegler pitched a scoreless eighth but surrendered four runs in the ninth.  Dey relieved Stiegler and allowed three runs (two earned) without recording an out. 

Wanger came on with the bases loaded and the Bulldogs leading 10-8.  Griffin Williams, the first batter Wanger faced, grounded to Dai Dai Otaka who committed a throwing error allowing two runners to score.  

With the game tied and runners of first and second, Wanger struck out the next batter.  The next hitter, Randell Kanemaru, singled home the winning run. 

The two teams will play a doubleheader tomorrow beginning at 11:30 a.m.  The doubleheader day of the series was originally schedued for today and moved to tomorrow. 

Report filed by Ernie Bertothy, Yale Sports Publicity