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Around the Ivy League: Baseball

At 1-3, the Tigers find themselves third in the Ivy League’s Gehrig Division, behind Cornell (4-12 overall, 2-2 Ivy League) and Columbia (4-19, 2-2). Princeton has only beaten Yale (6-9, 2-2) in Ivy competition so far this season.

Dartmouth (5-9, 4-0) leads the Rolfe Division, ahead of Brown (6-11, 3-1), Yale and Harvard (4-16, 2-2).

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Brown

On the road until Wednesday, the Bears started the season in South Carolina before heading to Alabama and then California. The squad picked up big upsets against No. 25 San Diego and Pepperdine but was swept by Auburn and USC.

The Bears opened up Ivy League play last Saturday against Cornell, splitting a series in Ithaca, N.Y., before traveling to Princeton to beat the Tigers twice.

Bears pitcher Matthew Kimball is tied for the Ivy League lead with three saves. Outfielder Steve Daniels is also a league leader with 11 stolen bases.

Columbia

The defending Ivy League champion started off its season in Texas, where they dropped three of four games against Lamar.

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After that, the Lions headed to North Carolina, where they were swept by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Next, they flew to California, where they lost all their games to UC Riverside and San Diego before picking up one win and three losses against Cal State Northridge.

Outfielder Nick Cox is tied with Brown’s Daniels for the league lead in steals.

Cornell

The Big Red finds itself atop the Gehrig Division despite a 4-12 overall record. Cornell didn’t get off to the best of starts, as a spring break trip to the West Coast yielded no wins in nine games.

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The start of Ivy play has been a boon for the Big Red. Cornell split weekend series with Brown and Yale last weekend.

Dartmouth

With a 4-0 record, the Big Green is alone on top of the Rolfe Division. Like the other Ivy League teams, Dartmouth also had unsuccessful trips to the South and West Coast early in the season.

The Big Green then headed to California, where it picked up one win in three games against San Jose State and was swept by Santa Clara. Things have gone much better for Dartmouth since: A road trip south saw Dartmouth sweep both Penn and Columbia.

Outfielder Nick Santomauro is fifth in the league with a .393 batting average and is also third in the league with four home runs. As a team, the Big Green is in third place in the league with a .958 fielding percentage.

Harvard

The Crimson, at the bottom of the Rolfe Divison with Yale, began its season in Alabama, where they picked up one win and three losses against Jacksonville State.

They followed that series by getting swept in Florida by the University of Alabama at Birmingham before going 1-7 in Louisiana against Centenary, Louisiana-Monroe, No. 5 LSU and New Orleans.

In Ivy play, the Crimson fell to Columbia twice in Manhattan before sweeping Penn in Philadelphia. Harvard won the second game 15-11 in 11 innings.

Outfielder Matt Rogers leads the Ivy League with 51 total bases. for second in the league.

Penn

Unlike most of the other Ivy teams, the Quakers did not start the season by losing their first series. They split a home matchup with Georgetown, losing the first game by 11 and winning the second by one.

The Quakers then took to Winter Park, Fla., where they took four of five games from Georgetown, dropped two games against Maine and split two games against Rollins.

Back in the North, the squad beat Temple before splitting a four-game series with Mt. St. Mary’s. In Ivy play, the Quakers lost twice to both Dartmouth and Harvard.

Outfielder Jeremy Maas leads the league with a .460 batting average, and starting pitcher Paul Cusick is in first with 34 strikeouts.

Yale

The Bulldogs started their season in Baltimore, where they lost to Wagner and split games against the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. They then went down to North Carolina, where they split a two-game series against Davidson.

Following a slew of game cancellations, the team has gone 4-7, including a 6-0 win and a 9-3 loss to Princeton.

Infielder Andy Megee leads the Ivy League with three triples. The squad trails only Brown on defense, boasting a .968 fielding percentage.