1997 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series


The 1997 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series took place at Joseph J. O'Donnell Field in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 10 and 11, 1997. The series matched the regular season champions of each of the league's two divisions. Harvard, the winner of the series, claimed their first title and the Ivy League's automatic berth in the 1997 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. It was Harvard's second appearance in the Championship Series, both of which were consecutive, and both of which matched them against Princeton.[2]

1997 Ivy League
baseball tournament
Teams2
FormatBest of three series
Finals site
ChampionsHarvard (1st title)
Winning coachJoe Walsh (1st title)
1997 Ivy League baseball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T   PCT W   L   T   PCT
Lou Gehrig
Princeton x‍‍y 10 10 0   .500 20 25 0   .444
Penn x‍‍‍ 10 10 0   .500 19 21 0   .475
Cornell  ‍‍‍ 7 13 0   .350 13 26 0   .333
Columbia  ‍‍‍ 6 14 0   .300 12 25 1   .329
Red Rolfe
Harvard x‍‍‍ 18 2 0   .900 34 16 0   .680
Yale  ‍‍‍ 16 4 0   .800 24 19 0   .558
Dartmouth  ‍‍‍ 11 9 0   .550 22 16 0   .579
Brown  ‍‍‍ 2 18 0   .100 5 37 0   .119
x – Division champion
‡ – Championship Series champion
y – Invited to the NCAA tournament
As of June 30, 1997[1]
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

Princeton defeated Penn, 11–3, on May 7 in a one-game playoff for the Gehrig Division. The Tigers also made their second appearance in the Championship Series. Princeton won the event in 1996.

Results

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Finals
    
Princeton 2 2 4
Harvard 1 4 22

References

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  1. ^ "2018 Baseball Record Book" (PDF). Ivy League. Retrieved June 8, 2018.
  2. ^ 2018 Baseball Record Book (PDF). Ivy League. Retrieved June 9, 2018.