NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale baseball team captured the Ivy League Tournament championship on Sunday afternoon, defeating Brown 7-5 at George H.W. Bush '48 Field to secure the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Bulldogs completed a whole-team effort, capping off a dominant postseason run on their home field.
The top-seeded Bulldogs won their third consecutive game in the conference tournament. They vanquished No. 4 Columbia on Friday and followed up with consecutive wins over No. 3 Brown on Saturday and Sunday.
The Bears hopped out to a 3-0 lead in the second, but Yale scored seven unanswered runs to take the lead. Brown cut the lead to 7-4 in the eighth. With the bases loaded and nobody out, Yale called on sophomore starting pitcher Jack Ohman, who threw 100 pitches on Friday. Ohman allowed a sac fly and struck out the next two batters to strand two runners on base. The Arizona native finished the ninth to seal the 7-5 victory and the Ivy League Tournament title.
Key Performers
• Reliever Teo Spadaccini pitched well in relief of starting pitcher Daniel Cohen. Spadaccini tossed 5.2 innings while allowing just two earned runs.
• Ohman closed out the game, hurling two innings while allowing one hit. He struck out three to earn the save.
Scoring Summary
• T1 | The Bears scored first on an RBI single by Alex Benevento. 1-0 BROWN
• T2 | Brown added two more runs on RBI singles by Andrew Hanlon and Mika Petersen. 3-0 BROWN
• B2 | Yale answered with three runs in the second. Davis Hanson doubled to lead off the inning and later scored on a sac fly by Brady Ruiz-Weiss. Kaiden Dossa and Garrett Larsen each drove in a run to tie the game. 3-3
• B3 | The Bulldogs took the lead on sac flies by Ruiz-Weiss and Dossa. 5-3 YALE
• B4 | Yale added two runs in the fourth. Hanson laid down a sac bunt to score Jack Dauer. Later in the inning, Owen Turner drove in Colin Sloan with an RBI single to center. 7-3 YALE
• T8 | Brown scored two runs in the eighth to cut into Yale's lead. 7-5 YALE
Game Notes
• Yale won its 30th game of the season, the fourth time in program history matching the 30-win mark.
• The Bulldogs will make their seventh NCAA Tournament appearance and first since 2017.
• Ruiz-Weiss drove in two runs, the first time in his career he recorded a multi-RBI game.
• Ohman was named Most Outstanding Player of the Ivy League Tournament. Ohman, along with Spadaccini, DiPrima, and Tate Evans, was named to the All-Tournament Team.
Up Next
The Bulldogs earned an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament. The NCAA Selection Show will take place on Monday, May 25.
