2012 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series


The 2012 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series took place at Hoy Field in Ithaca, NY on May 5 and 6. The series matched the regular season champions of each of the league's two divisions. Cornell, the winner of the series, claimed the Ivy League's automatic berth in the 2012 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.

2012 Ivy League
baseball tournament
Teams2
FormatBest of three series
Finals site
ChampionsCornell (1st title)
Winning coachBill Walkenbach (1st title)
2012 Ivy League baseball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T   PCT W   L   T   PCT
Lou Gehrig
Cornell  x‍‍y 14 6 0   .700 31 17 1   .643
Princeton  ‍‍‍ 13 7 0   .650 20 19 0   .513
Columbia  ‍‍‍ 12 8 0   .600 21 24 0   .467
Penn  ‍‍‍ 8 12 0   .400 17 23 0   .425
Red Rolfe
Dartmouth  x‍‍‍ 14 6 0   .700 24 18 0   .571
Harvard  ‍‍‍ 8 12 0   .400 12 30 0   .286
Brown  ‍‍‍ 6 14 0   .300 9 35 0   .205
Yale  ‍‍‍ 5 15 0   .250 13 31 1   .300
x – Division champion
‡ – Championship Series champion
y – Invited to the NCAA tournament
As of June 30, 2012[1]
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

Cornell won the series, which required all three games, on an 11th inning walk-off home run by Chris Cruz.[2] It was the Big Red's first Ivy League baseball championship since the league began sponsoring baseball in 1993. It was also the first baseball championship for Cornell since 1977, when they claimed the EIBL title.

Dartmouth has appeared in the Ivy League Championship Series every year since 2008, winning in 2009 and 2010.

Results

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Game One

May 5, 2012 12:00 pm
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Dartmouth 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 6 0
Cornell 1 4 1 1 0 3 1 0 X 11 15 0
WP: Kaufmann   LP: Horacek
Home runs:
Dartmouth: None
Cornell: Peters
Attendance: 312
Boxscore

Game Two

May 5, 2012 3:02 pm
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Cornell 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 6 1
Dartmouth 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 1 X 7 11 0
WP: Hunter   LP: Marks
Attendance: 312
Boxscore

Game Three

May 6, 2012 1:00 pm
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 R H E
Dartmouth 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 0
Cornell 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 3 9 1
WP: Urbon   LP: Olson
Home runs:
Dartmouth: None
Cornell: Cruz
Attendance: 422
Notes: Cornell wins Ivy League Championship
Boxscore

References

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  1. ^ "2012 Baseball Standings". IvyLeagueSports.com. Retrieved April 29, 2013.
  2. ^ "Cornell Walks Off with the 2012 Ivy League Championship Series Title". ivyleaguesports.com. Archived from the original on May 10, 2012. Retrieved May 7, 2012.