2014 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series

The 2014 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series was held at Robertson Field at Satow Stadium on the campus of Columbia in New York, NY on May 10. The series matched the regular season champions of each of the league's two divisions, Columbia and Dartmouth in a rematch of the 2013 edition. Columbia again won the series in two games to claim the Ivy League's automatic berth in the 2014 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.[2][3]

2014 Ivy League
Baseball Tournament

Teams	2
Format	Best of three series
Finals site	Robertson Field at Satow Stadium New York, NY
Champions	Columbia (3rd title)
Winning coach	Brett Boretti (3rd title)
MVP	,
Attendance	707

2014 Ivy League baseball standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Lou Gehrig
Columbia  ^x‍‍‡‍^y	15	–	5		.750			27	–	17		.614
Penn  ^x‍‍‍	15	–	5		.750			24	–	17		.585
Cornell  ‍‍‍	9	–	11		.450			18	–	21		.462
Princeton  ‍‍‍	8	–	12		.400			14	–	26		.350
Red Rolfe
Dartmouth  ^x‍‍‍	11	–	9		.550			18	–	21		.462
Yale  ^x‍‍‍	11	–	9		.550			19	–	22		.463
Brown  ‍‍‍	6	–	14		.300			13	–	24		.351
Harvard  ‍‍‍	4	–	14		.222			11	–	28		.282
x – Division champion ‡ – Championship Series champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of May 10, 2014[1]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

With the ties for both division leads, tiebreakers were played on the originally scheduled weekend of May 3 and 4 and the Championship series was delayed one week. Tiebreakers were played between Penn and Columbia for the Lou Gehrig Division title and between Yale and Dartmouth to decide the Red Rolfe Division.[4]

Columbia defeated Penn by a score of 4–0 in the tiebreaker for the Lou Gehrig Division. The game was held on May 3 at Meiklejohn Stadium on Penn's campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with Lions senior David Speer extending his scoreless innings streak to 23, recording 9 strikeouts, and allowing just five hits and two walks. Columbia appears in the championship series for the second year in a row and fifth overall.[5]

In the tiebreaker for the Red Rolfe Division, Dartmouth defeated Yale by a score of 11–4. The game was held on May 4 at Dartmouth's home field, Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park in Hanover, New Hampshire. Big Green starter Beau Sulser exited in the second inning due to an apparent elbow injury, and was replaced by sophomore Duncan Robinson. Robinson completed 5.1 innings to earn his seventh win, tied for most in the Ivy League in 2014. Dartmouth extended its winning streak to eight games and represents the Red Rolfe Division in the Championship Series for the seventh year in a row.[6]

As Columbia compiled the best record in the Ivy League in 2014, they hosted the series at Robertson Field at Satow Stadium in New York, NY.

Results

Game One

May 10, 2014 12:00 pm

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Dartmouth	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	7	0
Columbia	1	0	0	3	1	0	1	0	X	6	10	0
WP: Speer (1–0)   LP: Concato (2–3) Home runs: Dartmouth: None Columbia: Vanderhook, Paller Boxscore

Game Two

May 10, 2014

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Columbia	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	4	4	1
Dartmouth	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	1
WP: Roy (5–4)   LP: Robinson (7–3) Home runs: Columbia: Vanderhook, Craig Dartmouth: None Attendance: 707 Boxscore

References

1. "2014 Baseball Standings". IvyLeagueSports.com. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
2. "Ivy League Baseball Championship Series". The Ivy League. Archived from the original on May 15, 2014. Retrieved April 27, 2014.
3. "Columbia Wins Second-Straight Baseball Title in Doubleheader Sweep". The Ivy League. May 10, 2014. Archived from the original on May 12, 2014. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
4. "Baseball Weekly Release - Week 9". Ivy League. April 22, 2014. Archived from the original on April 28, 2014. Retrieved April 27, 2014.
5. "Columbia Defeats Penn In Gehrig Division Playoff To Advance To Championship Series". Ivy League. May 3, 2014. Archived from the original on May 5, 2014. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
6. "Seven Straight Division Titles for Dartmouth Baseball". Ivy League. May 4, 2014. Archived from the original on May 5, 2014. Retrieved May 5, 2014.