Baseball clinches spot in Ivy League Tournament in series versus Columbia
As the Princeton Tigers baseball team (17–24 overall, 12–9 Ivy League) departed campus on Friday for a road series against the Columbia Lions (26–15, 17–4), the stakes could not have been higher: a single win would clinch the Tigers’ spot in the Ivy League Tournament. For a team that hadn’t been swept all season and had just taken three straight against seventh-place Dartmouth, this may not have sounded like a difficult task. However, with wins in 20 of their last 23 games, Columbia was a different class of opponent than Princeton had faced all season. Just scraping by with one win against Columbia would not be easy, but the Tigers were up to the challenge.