Ivy League Tournament
 
No. 3 Yale vs. No. 2 Harvard
Thursday, May 11–2:30 PM
Princeton Softball Field at Strubing Field (Princeton, N.J.)
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The Yale softball team will square off against archrival Harvard in the opening game of the inaugural Ivy League Tournament. The three-day event will be held from Thursday, May 11 – Saturday, May 13 in Princeton, N.J. The Tigers earned hosting duties after finishing as the top team in the Ivy League regular season.
 
All games will be streamed live on ESPN+ and available for international viewing on Stretch Internet.
 
Tournament Format
Thursday
Game 1: (1) Princeton vs. (4) Columbia, 12 p.m.
Game 2: (2) Harvard vs. (3) Yale, 2:30 p.m.
 
Friday
Game 3: Winners of Games 1 and 2, 10 a.m.
Game 4: Losers of Game 1 and Game 2, 12:30 p.m.
Game 5: Winner of Game 4 vs. Loser of Game 3, 3 p.m.
 
Saturday
Game 6: Winners of Games 3 and 5, 12 p.m.
Game 7: Rematch of Game 6, If Game 5 winner wins Game 6, 2:30 p.m.
 
The winner of the Ivy League Tournament will learn its NCAA regional destination Sunday at 7 p.m. in a selection show broadcast on ESPN2.

Scouting Yale

• The Bulldogs are 20-21 overall and 11-10 in the Ivy League heading into the postseason tournament.
• Willa Ferrer is leading the team in batting average (.333), hits (39), and is second on the team in RBI (25) and slugging percentage (.538).
• Lauren Perren, who led the Ivy in RBI and home runs for most of the season, leads the team in both categories with 33 and eight, respectively.
• Alex Perren is riding a six-game hitting streak. The sophomore has 10 hits in that span and a .555 hitting percentage.
• In the circle, Emma Taylor and Nicole Conway each have seven wins apiece. Taylor has pitched the most innings for Yale with 89.1 IP to her credit with 65 strikeouts.

Ivy League Honors

• Alex Perren, Lauren Perren, and Libby Peoples were named First Team All-Ivy.
• Maddie Latta and Sam Goodcase were tabbed All-Ivy Honorable Mention.
• Nicole Conway was named Academic All-Ivy.
• It is the first time since 2017 that the Bulldogs have had five All-Ivy award winners.
• It is the first time since 2003 that Yale has had three players selected First Team All-Ivy.

This Season Against Harvard

• Harvard took all three games of the season series in Cambridge.
• The Crimson defeated Yale in walk-off fashion in game one and two of the series, 5-4 and 3-2, while topping the Bulldogs, 5-0, in game three.

Scouting the Crimson

• Harvard enters the tournament with a 26-14-1 overall record and a 16-5 Ivy League record.
• Madi Mays leads the team in batting average with .358.
• Allison Heffley leads the team in hits (43), OPS (.948), doubles (13), walks (16), and slugging percentage (.540).
• Lauren Bobowski has hits in five-straight appearances.
• Anna Reed and Riley Flynn have the most appearances in the circle for Harvard with 22 and 25 appearances, respectively. Reed has a 9-7 record, while Flynn is 6-1. Both have pitched in the neighborhood of 84 innings each.