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Baseball Punches Ticket to Ivy League Tournament With Win in Series Finale Over Brown
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The win clinches Cornell a spot in the Ivy League Tournament, marking the Red’s first appearance in the postseason since 2012.
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.
The win clinches Cornell a spot in the Ivy League Tournament, marking the Red’s first appearance in the postseason since 2012.
Following a come-from-behind victory in a four-run ninth inning on Tuesday against Binghamton, baseball (13-14, 10-5 Ivy) traveled back home for a weekend set against Yale. Having won three of its first four Ivy League series thus far, the Red looked to continue its strong stretch.
Cornell picked up yet another comeback victory in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader after a seven-run eighth inning brought the Red back into the game, setting up an extra-inning walk-off hit in the tenth. Saturday evening saw Cornell pull away in the later innings to secure an 8-2 win, but Sunday’s matchup went to the Bulldogs in a tight 6-3 battle. “Yale came in hot having won a series against Columbia who is in first place. We knew it would be a challenge but we were ready for it,” said head coach Dan Pepicelli.
Baseball continues its streak of victories, bouncing back from its losses against Princeton earlier this year.
“What I am most proud about is that we stayed in the hunt offensively and continued to tack on, putting up eight more runs. Overall, it was a good day.”
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