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Home Run Ball, Timely Hitting Powers James Madison to Series Sweep Against Baseball
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James Madison sweeps the Red in weekend series.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/baseball/)
The Cornell baseball team is coached by first-year head coach Dan Pepicelli and led by a nine player council. In its 146-year history, the team has amassed a 1665-1839-34 record; a .475 win percentage. The Red has had 14 players drafted by the MLB since the draft began in 1965.
James Madison sweeps the Red in weekend series.
Sunday’s finale showcased strong pitching and powerful hitting from the Red as the team rallied to an 11-4 victory.
Baseball dropped to seventh in the Ivy League after being swept by Princeton.
Baseball falls to 3-6 in Ivy League play after a poor defensive game against Brown.
Baseball earns its first wins of the season in a three-game series against Yale.
The razing of Hoy Field is about so much more than baseball. It’s a sign of how narrow our conception has become of what kind of human you can be at Cornell.
Sometimes, the most fun and rewarding experiences over the course of our college experience can be the ones you expect the least. For example, I did not expect to be involved with Model United Nations in college, especially given I had never done it in high school. Yet I have found some of my best friends and had some of my most incredible experiences through my involvement with the Cornell International Affairs Society.
Ya gotta believe, I said to myself as I jumped in my car on Sunday morning, making the spontaneous decision to drive four and a half hours from Ithaca to Queens for Game Three of the National League Wild Card series between the New York Mets and the San Diego Padres. It repeated in my head like a broken record: Ya gotta believe. Ya gotta believe. Ya gotta believe.
Despite a strong pitching performance in game one, baseball lost its final series of the year against Brown.
The team went on to split the doubleheader on Saturday and dropped the third game on Sunday in a closely fought, back-and-forth finale.