Baseball

Ivies Ready for Final Non-Conference Weekend, Yale Visits No. 21/24 Duke

PRINCETON, N.J. -- Princeton junior infielder Joseph Flynn, Penn sophomore right-handed pitcher Mitchell Holcomb and Harvard freshman right-handed pitcher and utility man Buddy Hayward earned the Ivy League’s weekly honors following non-conference series last week. This is the second weekly accolade for both Holcomb and Hayward, who were each honored on Feb. 26.

LEAGUE NOTES
  • Reigning Ivy League champion Yale visits No. 21/24 Duke for a mid-week pair, while Brown travels to receiving votes Dallas Baptist for a three-game set this weekend.
  • Penn will host the Ivy League’s first home games of the season, when Fairleigh Dickinson comes to Philadelphia for a doubleheader on Saturday, March 17.
  • Harvard claims the League’s best record thus far at 6-6.
  • Yale’s Griffin Dey leads the League with four home runs and a .657 slugging percentage.
  • Columbia’s Liam McGill paces the Ancient Eight with 24 total bases and 11 runs scored, while three Ivies—Brown’s Sam Grigo, Penn’s Matt McGeagh and Harvard’s Patrick McColl—have each driven in 11 runs.
  • Harvard’s Simon Rosenblum-Larson sits atop the League charts with 24 strikeouts.
  • Harvard’s Kevin Stone and Yale’s Kumar Nambiar are the only Ivies to have picked up multiple wins on the hill thus far.
  • Six Ivies are hitting .350-or-better—Dartmouth’s Sean Sullivan (.417), Brown’s Mark Sluys (.370), Dartmouth’s Michael Calamari (.360), Yale’s Tim DeGraw (.359), Princeton’s Joseph Flynn (.357) and Columbia’s Joe Engel (.356).
 
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Tuesday, March 13
Yale at No. 21/24 Duke, 4 p.m.
Harvard at Davidson, 6 p.m.
Columbia at Texas A&M Corpus Christi, 7 p.m.
 
Wednesday, March 14
Yale at No. 21/24 Duke, 4 p.m.
Dartmouth at UC Santa Barbara, 6 p.m.
Harvard at South Carolina, 7 p.m.
Columbia at Rice, 7:30 p.m.
 
Thursday, March 15
Harvard at Furman, 6 p.m.
Dartmouth at CSU Bakersfield, 9 p.m.
 
Friday, March 16
Yale vs. Monmouth, 10 a.m.
Princeton at Georgetown, 3 p.m.
Columbia vs. New Mexico, 3 p.m.
Harvard at Furman, 6 p.m.
Brown at Dallas Baptist, 7:30 p.m.
Dartmouth at CSU Bakersfield, 9 p.m.

Saturday, March 17
Cornell at Fordham, 12 p.m.
Harvard at Furman, 1 p.m.
Fairleigh Dickinson at Penn, 12 p.m.
Princeton at Georgetown, 1 p.m.
Yale at Richmond, 2 p.m.
Cornell at Fordham, 3 p.m.
Columbia vs. New Mexico, 3 p.m.
Fairleigh Dickinson at Penn, 3 p.m.
Harvard at Furman, 4 p.m.
Princeton at Georgetown, 4 p.m.
Brown at Dallas Baptist, 5 p.m.
Columbia at Houston, 7:30 p.m.
Dartmouth at CSU Bakersfield, 9 p.m.

Sunday, March 18
Yale vs. Lehigh, 10 a.m.
Penn at Fairleigh Dickinson, 12 p.m.
Cornell at Fordham, 12 p.m.
Princeton at Georgetown, 1 p.m.
Columbia at Houston, 2 p.m.
Dartmouth at CSU Bakersfield, 3 p.m.
Penn at Fairleigh Dickinson, 3 p.m.
Brown at Dallas Baptist, 4 p.m. 

PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Princeton junior infielder Joseph Flynn hit .5454 with six hits in 11 at-bats on the Tigers three-game road swing at South Carolina.

The East Setauket, N.Y., native tallied two runs and two RBI in the three-game set, while registering a double and a home run. Flynn now paces the Tigers with a .357 average, .400 on-base percentage, 17 total bases, 10 hits and two home runs on the season. He compiled a .583 on-base percentage and .909 slugging percentage in this week’s series.
 
Flynn, who has registered a hit in 6-of-7 games thus far, is Princeton’s first Player of the Week since Billy Arendt on April 19, 2016.

Flynn’s Statistics for the Week
3 G, .545 (6-for-11), 2 R, 2 RBI, 1 2B, 1 HR, 1 HBP, 10 TB, .583 OBP, .909 SLG
 
PITCHER OF THE WEEK
Penn sophomore right-handed pitcher Mitchell Holcomb tossed six scoreless innings for the Quakers en route to his second Pitcher of the Week nod this season.
 
The Georgetown, Texas, product fanned eight batters in six innings, allowing just two hits. Holcomb—who held USC Upstate to a .100 batting average—exited the game with Penn holding a 2-0 advantage over the Spartans, though the Quakers eventually fell 7-2.

Holcomb was previously honored as the Pitcher of the Week on Feb. 26.

Holcomb’s Statistics for the Week
1 APP, 1 GS, 0-0, 6.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 8 K, 0.00 ERA

ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Harvard freshman right-handed pitcher and utility man Buddy Hayward contributed to each of the Crimson’s four victories over Presbyterian this week.

On the mound, the Plantation, Fla., native allowed just one unearned run over six innings of work, picking up the first victory of his collegiate career in Harvard’s 2-1 win on March 9. He scattered five hits and struck out six in the start. At the plate, Hayward was 1-for-6 for the series, but did tally a run, three RBI and two walks in nine plate appearances.
 
Hayward, who held Blue Hose hitters to a .217 clip, earns the second Rookie of the Week nod of his Crimson career. He was previously honored on Feb. 26.
 
Hayward’s Statistics for the Week
1 APP, 1 GS, 1-0, 6.0 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 6 K, 0.00 ERA
4 G, .167 (1-for-6), 1 R, 3 RBI, 2 BB, 1 TB, .333 OBP, .167 SLG
 
HONOR ROLL
Garett Delano, Brown (So., RHP – Callahan, Fla.)
1 APP, 1 GS, 0-0, 6.0 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 6 K, 0.00 ERA
 
Sam Grigo, Brown (Sr., OF – Westbrook, Conn.)
4 G, .350 (7-for-20), 3 R, 8 RBI, 2 2B, 1 HR, 12 TB, .350 OBP, .600 SLG

Mark Sluys, Brown (Jr., C/IF – Gig Harbor, Wash.)
3 G, .429 (6-for-14), 2 R, 4 RBI, 1 HR, 9 TB, .429 OBP, .643 SLG
 
Jack Chernow, Columbia (Fr., IF/OF – Chester, N.J.)
4 G, .357 (5-for-14), 3 R, 3 RBI, 1 HR, 2 BB, 2 SB, 8 TB, .438 OBP, .571 SLG

Joe Engel, Columbia (Jr., IF – Downers Grove, Ill.)
4 G, .400 (6-for-15), 3 R, 3 RBI, 2 2B, 1 BB, 3 HBP, 8 TB, .526 OBP, .533 SLG

Ty Wiest, Columbia (Sr., RHP – Castle Rock, Colo.)
1 APP, 1 GS, 1-0, 6.0 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 4 K, 1.50 ERA

Patrick McColl, Harvard (Jr., 1B – Los Altos, Calif.)
4 G, .313 (5-for-16), 3 R, 7 RBI, 2 2B, 1 HBP, 7 TB, .353 OBP, .438 SLG
 
Simon Rosenblum-Larson, Harvard (Jr., RHP – Madison, Wis.)
1 APP, 1 GS, 0-0, 7.0 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 7 K, 0.00 ERA

Chris Adams, Penn (So., 2B – Boalsburg, Pa.)
5 G, .364 (8-for-22), 2 R, 2 RBI, 2 2B, 1 BB, 1 SB, 10 TB, .391 OBP, .455 SLG

Eduardo Malinowski, Penn (Fr., OF – Spring, Texas)
5 G, .300 (6-for-20), 4 R, 3 RBI, 2 2B, 1 BB, 1 SB, 8 TB, .333 OBP, .400 SLG
 
Sy Snedeker, Princeton (Fr., C/DH – Tulsa, Okla.)
3 G, .300 (3-for-10), 2 R, 2 RBI, 1 3B, 1 HR, 8 TB, .300 OBP, .800 SLG

Griffin Dey, Yale (Jr., 1B – Pound Ridge, N.Y.)
2 G, .500 (3-for-6), 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 2B, 1 HR, 3 BB, 7 TB, .666 OBP, 1.167 SLG