1998 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series

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1998 Ivy League
baseball tournament
Teams2
FormatBest of three series
Finals site
Champions Harvard  (2nd title)
Winning coach Joe Walsh  (2nd title)
  • 1997
  • Ivy League Baseball Tournament
  • 1999
1998 Ivy League baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L T PCTW L T PCT
Lou Gehrig
Princeton  x1370 .65025140 .641
Cornell  1280 .60018181 .500
Penn  9110 .45014211 .403
Columbia  5150 .25010310 .244
Red Rolfe
Harvard  xy1640 .80036120 .750
Yale  1190 .55021210 .500
Dartmouth  7130 .35023180 .561
Brown  7130 .35012340 .261
x Division champion
Championship Series champion
y Invited to the NCAA tournament
As of June 30, 1998 [1]
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 1998 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series took place at Yale Field in New Haven, Connecticut, on May 12, 1998. The series matched the regular season champions of each of the league's two divisions. Harvard, the winner of the series, claimed their second consecutive, and second overall, title and the Ivy League's automatic berth in the 1998 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. It was Harvard's third appearance in the Championship Series, all of which were consecutive, and all of which matched them against Princeton. [2]

Princeton also made their third appearance in the Championship Series. The Tigers won the event in 1996.

Results

Finals
    
Princeton 6 4
Harvard 1313

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References

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