2017 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series

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2017 Ivy League
baseball tournament
Teams2
FormatBest of three series
Finals site
Champions Yale Bulldogs  (3rd title)
  • 2016
  • Ivy League Baseball Tournament
  • 2018
2017 Ivy League baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
Lou Gehrig
Penn  x128 .6002322 .511
Columbia  x128 .6001823 .439
Cornell  911 .4502117 .553
Princeton  713 .3501228 .300
Red Rolfe
Yale  xy164 .8003418 .654
Dartmouth  119 .5502217 .564
Harvard  713 .3501923 .452
Brown  614 .3001324 .351
x Division champion
Championship Series champion
y Invited to the NCAA tournament
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

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]

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

Game One

May 16, 2017 12:00 pm
Team123456789 R H E
Pennsylvania 000000000050
Yale 00012200X590
WP: Politz   LP: Cousins
Boxscore

Game Two

May 16, 2016 3:30 PM
Team123456789 R H E
Yale40601000011143
Pennsylvania0000302207150
WP: Brodkowitz   LP: Bleday
Home runs:
Yale: DeGraw, Wanger 2
Penn: Graul, Halevy
Attendance: 801
Boxscore

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