NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- After earning the right to host the Ivy League Baseball Championship Series with a 16-4 record in League play, Yale defended its home field to claim its first Ivy League title since 1994. 

The Bulldogs swept Penn, taking a pair of games at Yale Field in New Haven, Conn., Tuesday. Penn advanced to the championship series by way of a 6-3 victory in the one-game Lou Gehrig Division playoff at Columbia on May 7.

Sophomore right-handed pitcher Scott Politz was the story for Yale in the ILCS opener, tossing a nine-inning complete-game shutout. Politz threw 110 pitches—72 for strikes—conceding just five hits and two walks, while striking out five. Yale plated four runs in the middle innings, highlighted by Harrison White's RBI double to right center in the bottom of the fifth inning. The double was 1-of-2 extra-base hits in the ILCS opener. 

The Bulldogs jumped on Penn's Adam Bleday early in game two of the ILCS doubleheader, chasing the Quaker starter after just 2.2 innings. Bleday was on the hook for 8-of-10 Yale runs over the first three innings. Benny Wanger tallied a pair of home runs for Yale in game two—a two-RBI dinger in the first inning and a three-run bomb in the third. Tim DeGraw also had a three-run jack in the third inning as the Bulldogs jumped out to a 10-0 lead. Though Penn would battle back to have the game-tying run at the plate in an 11-7 game in the ninth inning, the Quakers could not overcome Yale's early double-digit margin. 

As the League champion, Yale earns the Ivy League's automatic berth to the NCAA tournament, where it will be making its first appearance since 1993. The Bulldogs carry a six-game winning streak into NCAA competition and have emerged victorious in 18 of their last 21 games, dating back to April 9. 

The Bulldogs will learn their NCAA tournament destination on Monday, May 29, at 12 p.m. ET on ESPNU. The 64 teams that make the NCAA regionals will head to 16 sites for a double-elimination tournament on June 2-5.