2017 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series

The 2017 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series was held at Yale Field, home field of the Rolfe Division champion Yale Bulldogs on May 16. The series matched the regular season champions of each of the league's two divisions. Yale won their third championship series and claimed the Ivy League's automatic berth in the 2017 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[1][2]

2017 Ivy League
baseball tournament
Teams2
FormatBest of three series
Finals site
ChampionsYale Bulldogs (3rd title)
2017 Ivy League baseball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Lou Gehrig
Penn  x‍‍‍ 12 8   .600 23 22   .511
Columbia  x‍‍‍ 12 8   .600 18 23   .439
Cornell  ‍‍‍ 9 11   .450 21 17   .553
Princeton  ‍‍‍ 7 13   .350 12 28   .300
Red Rolfe
Yale  x‍‍y 16 4   .800 34 18   .654
Dartmouth  ‍‍‍ 11 9   .550 22 17   .564
Harvard  ‍‍‍ 7 13   .350 19 23   .452
Brown  ‍‍‍ 6 14   .300 13 24   .351
x – Division champion
‡ – Championship Series champion
y – Invited to the NCAA tournament
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

Yale won the Rolfe Division while Columbia and Pennsylvania tied for the Gehrig Division title with identical 12–8 records. Pennsylvania won a one-game playoff on May 7 to advance to the Championship Series.[3]

Results edit

Game One

May 16, 2017 12:00 pm
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Pennsylvania 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
Yale 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 X 5 9 0
WP: Politz   LP: Cousins
Boxscore

Game Two

May 16, 2016 3:30 PM
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Yale 4 0 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 11 14 3
Pennsylvania 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 2 0 7 15 0
WP: Brodkowitz   LP: Bleday
Home runs:
Yale: DeGraw, Wanger 2
Penn: Graul, Halevy
Attendance: 801
Boxscore

References edit

  1. ^ "Ivy League Baseball Championship Series". The Ivy League. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  2. ^ "2017 Division I baseball conference tournaments, automatic qualifiers". NCAA. May 28, 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
  3. ^ "Penn Wins Gehrig Division Playoff, Advances to Championship Series". The Ivy league. May 7, 2017. Archived from the original on June 6, 2017. Retrieved May 17, 2017.