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)
MVP,
2012 Ivy League baseball standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T PCT  W L T PCT
Lou Gehrig
Cornell  xy 1460 .700  31171 .643
Princeton   1370 .650  20190 .513
Columbia   1280 .600  21240 .467
Penn   8120 .400  17230 .425
Red Rolfe
Dartmouth  x 1460 .700  24180 .571
Harvard   8120 .400  12300 .286
Brown   6140 .300  9350 .205
Yale   5150 .250  13311 .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

Game One

May 5, 2012 12:00 pm
Team123456789RHE
Dartmouth000000300360
Cornell14110310X11150
WP: Kaufmann   LP: Horacek
Home runs:
Dartmouth: None
Cornell: Peters
Attendance: 312
Boxscore

Game Two

May 5, 2012 3:02 pm
Team123456789RHE
Cornell000000001161
Dartmouth00004111X7110
WP: Hunter   LP: Marks
Attendance: 312
Boxscore

Game Three

May 6, 2012 1:00 pm
Team1234567891011RHE
Dartmouth00100000000160
Cornell00000100002391
WP: Urbon   LP: Olson
Home runs:
Dartmouth: None
Cornell: Cruz
Attendance: 422
Notes: Cornell wins Ivy League Championship
Boxscore

References

  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 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2012-05-07.
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