NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Fourth-seeded Harvard University and second-seeded Columbia University advance into the winner’s bracket with wins on the opening day of the 2025 Ivy League Baseball Championship hosted at George H.W. Bush ’48 Field at Yale University.

No. 4 Harvard 3, No. 1 Yale 1
With one out in the top of the first, Harvard (13-26) wasted no time getting on the board. It started when Matt Gilberti reached first off, a bunt single, and then stole second to move into scoring position.  He later scored to make it 1-0 off Gio Colasante’s RBI single to left.

Yale (30-14) looked to tie the game in the second, but was unable to score the runner from second.

Harvard added to its lead in the top of the third, with one down, Jack Rickheim walked on four straight pitches, then moved to second when George Cooper singled to left. Both runners moved up 90 feet off a wild pitch. With two down, Colasante’s two-run single to center scored both runners to push the lead to 3-0.

Yale’s Hayden Sobecki lead off the bottom of the fifth with a double down the right field line. He later scored off Max Imhoff’s RBI single to right center to cut the lead to 3-1 before the inning ended.

Harvard starter Callan Fang picked up the win (3-3) after going six innings, allowing one run on four hits, while striking out four. Reliever Colasante earned his first save of the season.

Colasante finished the day at the plate going 2-for-4 with three RBIs. Teammates Rickheim and Cooper each tallied two hits as well for Harvard.
Imhoff and Tommy Martin of Yale combined to go 4-for-6 with an RBI and a double.

No. 2 Columbia 4, No. 3 Penn 3 – 10 innings
Hunter Snyder reached first on an infield single to second in the bottom of the first to start things off for Columbia (25-17). Following a ground out, Griffin Palfrey was hit by a pitch to put runners on first and second. Snyder later scored off Cole Fellows’ RBI single to center to make it 1-0. Palfrey was able to take third and then scored off of Jack Kail’s single to right field. Fellows went from first to third on the play. Kail was thrown out for trying to steal second, which allowed Fellows to score to push the lead to 3-0.

Ernie Echevarria and Nick O’Brien both walked to open the top of the third for the Quakers. Echevarria came around to score when Gavin Degnan doubled down the right field line to make 3-1. With two in scoring position and one out, Davis Baker singled home both runners to tie the game at three for Penn (21-19).

With two outs in the bottom of the tenth, Columbia’s Sam Miller singled to left field and later moved to second when Palfrey walked. With the winning run 180 feet away, Anton Lazits doubled down the left field line to score Miller to send the Lions to a 4-3 victory.

Columbia reliever Tomas Lopez tallied the win (1-0), while striking out five in two innings of work. Starter Joe Sheets went four and two-thirds allowing three runs on seven hits. He struck out a game-high seven.

Fellows paced all Lions with two hits, while scoring a run and adding an RBI. He and Lazits tallied the team’s only two doubles.
Penn’s Gavin Collins finished the day going 3-for-5 while Davis Baker drove in two of the team’s three runs.

Yale will take on Penn tomorrow at noon in an elimination game, while Columbia faces Harvard at 4 p.m.