2008 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series

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2008 Ivy League
baseball tournament
Teams2
FormatBest of three series
Finals site
Champions Columbia  (1st title)
Winning coach Brett Boretti  (1st title)
2008 Ivy League baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L T PCTW L T PCT
Lou Gehrig
Columbia  xy1550 .75022300 .423
Princeton  1190 .55020220 .476
Penn  6131 .32515231 .397
Cornell  6140 .30012270 .308
Red Rolfe
Dartmouth  x1550 .75025170 .595
Yale  9101 .47520241 .456
Brown  9110 .45020240 .455
Harvard  8120 .40010300 .250
x Division champion
Championship Series champion
y Invited to the NCAA tournament
As of June 30, 2008 [1]
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2008 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series took place at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park in Hanover, New Hampshire on May 6 and 7, 2008. [2] The series matched the regular season champions of each of the league's two divisions. Columbia, the winner of the series, claimed the Ivy League's automatic berth in the 2008 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. It was Columbia's first Championship Series victory. [3]

Dartmouth made their fourth appearance in the Championship Series, and first since 2004. They had yet to win the event.

Results

Finals
    
Columbia 1115 7
Dartmouth 7 165

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