PRINCETON, N.J. -- With a 4-3 11-inning victory over Penn on Friday, May 11, Yale clinched its second-straight Ivy League baseball crown. The Bulldogs claimed last year’s title with a sweep of the Quakers in the best-of-three Ivy League Championship Series. 
 
With the move to a round-robin schedule in 2018—rather than the divisional format that existed in Ivy League play from 1993-2017—the Ivy League champion is now determined by the best regular-season conference record.
 
Yale, which now sits at 15-4 in League play, has already clinched that honor with two games to play on its regular-season slate. The Bulldogs will also host the 2018 Ivy League Championship Series, which will determine the League’s automatic qualifier to the NCAA Baseball Regionals, at historic Yale Field on May 19-20. 
 
Three teams remain in contention for the second spot in the championship series—Dartmouth (11-6-1), Columbia (11-7) and Harvard (10-8) entering the final weekend of regular-season play. Should the No. 2 seed prove victorious in the best-of-three postseason series, it would also earn a share of the 2018 Ivy League baseball championship. 
 
Dartmouth will host Harvard for a three-game series on May 13-14, while Columbia will visit Cornell on May 12-13 to conclude the regular-season.
 
Yale forced extra innings in the decisive victory when back-to-back walks, followed by back-to-back hit by pitches, forced the game-tying run home in the bottom of the ninth inning. Three-straight singles in the bottom of the 11th inning plated the winning run, with Tim DeGraw driving in Tom Fuller with a single to left center. 

The Bulldogs are the first repeat Ivy League champion since Columbia had a run of three-straight crowns from 2013-15.