NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The long ball guided second-seeded Columbia to capturing the 2025 Ivy League Baseball Tournament title, held at George H.W. Bush Field at Yale University. The Lions punched their ticket to the NCAA Tournament for sixth time in the last 10 seasons. Columbia will wait to hear on Monday, May 26 who it will play.
 
Columbia’s Anton Lazits garnered Most Outstanding Player honors for the tournament. He tallied four hits, four RBIs, two home runs, a double, and two runs scored. In the championship, he went 2-for-3 with two home runs, three RBIs, and two runs scored.
 
No. 4 Harvard 8, No. 1 Yale 6 (Elimination Game)
With both teams looking to avoid elimination, Yale struck first when Kaiden Dossa sent his sixth home run of the season over the left field wall to make it 1-0 in the top of the first.
 
The Bulldogs added three more runs in the top of the second to push their lead to 4-0.
 
Harvard got on the board in the bottom of the second when Tyler Shulman doubled down the left field line and then reached third off an error by the Yale pitcher. He later came around to score when Liam Wilson doubled to make it 4-1.
 
George Cooper, who singled to center and then took second off a wild pitch, got things rolling in the fourth for Harvard. Gio Colasante cut the lead in half with his RBI single that scored Cooper.
 
Harvard (14-27) took its first lead of the game in the bottom of the fifth when William Lybrook singled and Sawyer Feller doubled to start. Both runners crossed the plate to tie the game at four when Jack Rickheim doubled down the left field line. He then moved up 90 feet off a wild pitch and later scored off Matt Giberti’s sacrifice fly to right field to put Harvard in front 5-4.
 
Yale (31-14) tied the game in the seventh and retook the lead in the eighth to go up 6-5.
 
Headed to the bottom of the eighth down one, Cooper and Colasante hit back-to-back singles to left field for Harvard. Cooper then moved up off Shulman’s flyout to right field to put runners on the corners. Colasante later stole second to move into scoring position. Yale looking for the double play intentionally walked Wilson to load the bases. Feller’s two-run single put the Crimson in front 7-6. Wilson was able to take third on the play and later score off Ryan Mooney’s RBI single to make it 8-6.
 
Harvard closer Ryan McHugh had a shutdown ninth inning to earn his fourth save of the season and secure the win.
 
Harvard starter Brian Dowling allowed four runs (one earned) on five hits in three and two-thirds of an inning. Reliever Charley Bergsma picked up the win (1-3) after going an inning and two-thirds, giving up a run on two hits.
 
Yale’s Dossa, Williams, Jack Dauer, and Max Imhoff combined to go 8-for-16 with four runs scored, a home run, a double, a triple, and three RBIs.
 
Feller, Lybrook, Shulman, Colasante, and Cooper each tallied two hits apiece. Both Feller and Shulman tallied two of the team’s four doubles.
 
No. 2 Columbia 14, No. 6 Harvard 4 (Championship Game)
Columbia (27-17) opened up the championship with a walk from Hunt Snyder and a single to center from Sam Miller. Snyder then scored off Lazits' RBI fielder’s choice to go in front 1-0 in the bottom of the first.
 
The Lions added to their lead with Owen Estabrook’s two-run home run in the bottom of the second that scored Tate Vogler with two outs to make it 3-0.
 
Back-to-back home runs by Lazits and Cole Fellows pushed the Columbia lead to 5-0 in the bottom of the third. The Lions added another run when Jack Kail scored to make it 6-0 off an error that allowed Vogler to reach. Columbia did not stop as Estabrook and Miller each got in on the action with a two-out two-run home runs of their own to push the lead to 10-0 to cap a seven-run inning.
 
Harvard (14-28) got on the board in the top of the fourth when Colasante sent a home run to dead center field to make it 10-1.
 
The Lions in their half of the fourth got the run back when Lazits tallied his second home run of the contest to make it 11-1.
 
Harvard added a run in the fifth and two in the sixth to cut the lead to 11-4, but Columbia pushed three runs across in the seventh to go up 14-4.
 
The Crimson added two runs in the ninth to make it 14-6, but that is as close as they would come.
 
Columbia starter Jagger Edwards picked up the win (3-3) after going five and a third innings while allowing four runs on eight hits.  Reliever Will Harrigan earned the save (4) after throwing three and two-thirds of an inning.
 
As a team, the Lions belted seven home runs with Lazits and Estabrook registering two each. The seven home runs are a season-high, breaking the previous record of four set three times, with the most recent back on May 3 at Harvard.
 
Vogler paced Columbia at the plate, going 4-for-5 with three runs scored, three RBIs, three doubles, and a home run.
 
Miller closed out the contest going 3-for-5 with three RBIs and a run scored, while Estabrook tallied two hits and led the team in RBIs with four.
 
Harvard's Colasante and Feller each finished with two hits, while Colasante tallied a home run and a pair of runs scored.
 
Most Outstanding Player: Anton Lazits (Columbia)
All-Tournament Team
Penn: Jake Moss
Penn: Marty Coyne 
Yale: Colton Shaw
Yale: Max Imhoff
Harvard: Gio Colasante
Harvard: Truman Pauley
Harvard: Callan Fang
Columbia: Thomas Santana
Columbia: Jack Kail
Columbia: Cole Fellows
Columbia:  Anton Lazits