PRINCETON, N.J. -- The Ivy League Baseball Championship Series, originally scheduled for May 19-20, has been postponed to May 22-23 due to anticipated inclement weather on Saturday and Sunday in the New Haven, Conn., area.

The series-opening doubleheader will begin at 12:05 p.m. on Tuesday, May 22, with game two commencing 30 minutes following the conclusion of game one. The if-necessary third game will be contested at 1:05 p.m. on Wednesday, May 23. Each game of the series will be broadcast live on the Ivy League Network. 

The best-of-three event will pit Ivy League regular-season champion Yale (22-19, 15-6 Ivy) against Columbia (18-27, 13-8 Ivy). The Lions took 2-of-3 from the Bulldogs on the opening weekend of Ivy League play, 1-of-2 Ivy series losses for Yale this season. 

Yale returns to the Ivy League Baseball Championship Series for the third-straight year and will be hosting its second-straight at historic Yale Field in New Haven, Conn. The Bulldogs claim a 7-5 ILCS record, with series victories in 1993, 1994 and 2017. 
 
Columbia, which went 13-8 in Ivy play this season, will be making its seventh appearance in the ILCS and its sixth over the past 11 seasons. The Lions own a 9-6 ILCS mark, with series wins in 2008, 2013, 2014 and 2015.

Yale and Columbia met in the first-ever ILCS in 1993, with Yale sweeping the series behind 17-7 and 11-1 victories. 
 
The Ivy League moved to a round-robin schedule in 2018—rather than the divisional format that existed in Ivy League play from the onset of the ILCS in 1993 through 2017. 
 
With that change, the Ivy League champion is now determined by the best regular-season conference record. Should No. 2-seeded Columbia prove victorious in the best-of-three postseason series, it would earn a share of the 2018 Ivy League baseball championship. 
 
The winner of the best-of-three ILCS will also receive the League’s automatic berth to the NCAA Baseball Regionals.