NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale baseball team began the Ivy League Tournament in emphatic fashion, routing Columbia 12-3 on Friday afternoon at George H.W. Bush '48 Field. The top-seeded Bulldogs utilized strong pitching and situational hitting to get past the Lions in the opening game of the conference tournament.
With the victory, Yale will play the winner of No. 2 Penn and No. 3 Brown on Saturday afternoon. The Elis sit firmly in the winners' bracket in the double-elimination event. The Bulldogs improved to 28-13-1 overall, matching their fourth-highest single-season win total in program history. Columbia dropped to 15-24-1.
Key Performers
• Starting pitcher Jack Ohman delivered a gritty effort on the mound for the Bulldogs, tossing five innings of two-run ball. He stranded six runners on base and struck out five.
• Teo Spadaccini was fantastic in relief of Ohman. The junior retired all nine batters he faced, getting the Bulldogs through the eighth inning.
• Chris DiPrima went 2-for-4 with a massive bases-clearing double in the fourth.
Scoring Summary
• T1 | Columbia led off the game with two consecutive hits. The Lions scored their first run on an RBI ground out by Jackson Brewer. 1-0 COLUMBIA
• B1 | Kaiden Dossa drew a leadoff walk and stole second. Chris DiPrima hit a grounder to third, which was fielded cleanly but thrown away by the third baseman. Dossa scored easily, and DiPrima circled the bases as a result of a second Columbia error on the play. 2-1 YALE
• T3 | The Lions tied the game on a two-out single by Cole Fellows. 2-2
• B3 | The Bulldogs went back on top with an RBI single through the left side by Jack Dauer. 3-2 YALE
• B4 | The Bulldogs loaded the bases with two outs in the fourth. DiPrima drove all three baserunners home with a double to center. 6-2 YALE
• B5 | Yale added another run on an RBI double to right by Davis Hanson. 7-2 YALE
• B7 | Owen Turner drove in Colin Sloan for the Bulldogs' eighth run. 8-2 YALE
• B8 | The Bulldogs broke the game open with four runs in the eighth. Garrett Larsen added an RBI double, and the hosts scored two more on an error by Columbia pitcher Ray Huke. 12-2 YALE
• T9 | Columbia added a third run in the ninth. 12-3 YALE
Game Notes
• Yale earned its second-ever win in the Ivy League Tournament.
• Yale won its 28th game of the season, tied for the fourth-most in program history.
• The Bulldogs picked up their first win against Columbia this season after going 0-2-1 during the regular season.
• Dossa reached base four times, extending his on-base streak to 35 games. Dossa also stole two bases and is a perfect 28-for-28 on stolen-base attempts this season.
• DiPrima drove in three runs and increased his total to 39 for the season.
• Ohman earned his fifth win of the season.
• Alex Hwang pitched the ninth inning for Yale, allowing one unearned run.
Up Next
Yale will play the winner of No. 2 Penn against No. 3 Brown on Saturday, May 16 at 4 p.m.
