2012 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series

Last updated
2012 Ivy League
baseball tournament
Teams2
FormatBest of three series
Finals site
Champions Cornell  (1st title)
Winning coach Bill Walkenbach  (1st title)
  • 2011
  • Ivy League Baseball Tournament
  • 2013
2012 Ivy League baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L T PCTW L T PCT
Lou Gehrig
Cornell  xy1460 .70031171 .643
Princeton  1370 .65020190 .513
Columbia  1280 .60021240 .467
Penn  8120 .40017230 .425
Red Rolfe
Dartmouth  x1460 .70024180 .571
Harvard  8120 .40012300 .286
Brown  6140 .3009350 .205
Yale  5150 .25013311 .300
x Division champion
Championship Series champion
y Invited to the NCAA tournament
As of June 30, 2012 [1]
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2012 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series took place at Hoy Field in Ithaca, NY on May 5 and 6. The series matched the regular season champions of each of the league's two divisions. Cornell, the winner of the series, claimed the Ivy League's automatic berth in the 2012 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.

Cornell won the series, which required all three games, on an 11th inning walk-off home run by Chris Cruz. [2] It was the Big Red's first Ivy League baseball championship since the league began sponsoring baseball in 1993. It was also the first baseball championship for Cornell since 1977, when they claimed the EIBL title.

Dartmouth has appeared in the Ivy League Championship Series every year since 2008, winning in 2009 and 2010.

Results

Game One

May 5, 2012 12:00 pm
Team123456789 R H E
Dartmouth000000300360
Cornell14110310X11150
WP: Kaufmann   LP: Horacek
Home runs:
Dartmouth: None
Cornell: Peters
Attendance: 312
Boxscore

Game Two

May 5, 2012 3:02 pm
Team123456789 R H E
Cornell000000001161
Dartmouth00004111X7110
WP: Hunter   LP: Marks
Attendance: 312
Boxscore

Game Three

May 6, 2012 1:00 pm
Team1234567891011 R H E
Dartmouth00100000000160
Cornell00000100002391
WP: Urbon   LP: Olson
Home runs:
Dartmouth: None
Cornell: Cruz
Attendance: 422
Notes: Cornell wins Ivy League Championship
Boxscore

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References

  1. "2012 Baseball Standings". IvyLeagueSports.com. Retrieved April 29, 2013.
  2. "Cornell Walks Off with the 2012 Ivy League Championship Series Title". ivyleaguesports.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2012-05-07.