PHILADELPHIA -- The Columbia baseball team needed two wins heading into the final day of the Ivy League Baseball Playoff Series and got just that to earn the 2022 title and earn the league's automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament. 

The Lions await their regionals destination which will be announced on the NCAA Selection Show next Monday, May 30 at 12 p.m. on ESPN2. 

Columbia dropped game one before storming back today — taking game two of the series 4-2 and pulling away to a 9-1 series clincher in game three. 

In game two, both Columbia’s Sean Higgins and Penn's Joe Miller were dealing early on. Each retired the first six batters they faced. 
 
The Lions were the first to get on the board with three runs in the bottom of the fourth. Columbia’s Skye Selinsky opened the scoring Anthony Lazits and Hayden Schott with an RBI single. Selinsky would later come around to score on error. 
 
Penn answered back with a run in the top of the fifth. Nate Polo scoring on a groundout to first. 
 
Both teams traded runs in the sixth make the score 4-2 in favor of the Lions. 
 
The Quakers put runners in scoring position with no outs in the top of the eighth. Columbia’s Griffin Palfrey took over on the mound. He struck out the first batter. In the next at bat, Ben Miller popped up to shallow center field. Weston Eberly settled underneath it and gunned out Tommy Courtney, who was attempting to tag from third. 
 
Penn’s tying run reached base in the top of the ninth, but Palfrey was able to once again escape the jam and force the game three.

In the decisive game, Columbia pitcher Andy Leon, whose longest appearance this season was four innings, started on the mound and went five. He allowed just one hit and no runs to earn the win. 
 
The Lions opened the scoring in the second with Cole Hage sending a 2 RBI single up the middle, which scored Austin Mowrey and Anton Lazits. 
 
Columbia added runs in the top of the fourth and fifth to push ahead 4-0. 
 
The Quakers got on the board in the bottom of the sixth with Craig Larsen sending an RBI single to left field. 

The Lions shut down any hopes of a Penn comeback, scoring five more insurance runs to secure the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

Penn won game one Saturday, 13-4.