[OT] Baseball

[JimmyBob]

Cornell baseball just won their first ever Gehrig division title!!!!  That means they will play the winner of the Rolfe division for the Ivy League championship and a trip to the NCAA tournament.  The most likely Rolfe division champ is Harvard and we'd have to go to their field to play the best of 3 series.  LET'S GO RED!!!!

[Rich S]

Just wondering...when did they last win the Ivy title?

[JimmyBob]

According to ivyleaguesports.com Cornell last won the ivy league championship in 1977

[Rich S]

thanks.

[Tom Pasniewski 98]

Harvard just rallied from 7-3 down to beat Dartmouth 9-8 in Game 1 of their doubleheader today.  Brown beat Yale in Game 1 and combined with the fact that yesterday's doubleheader between Dartmouth and Harvard at Dartmouth was washed out and will be made up tomorrow, Brown still has a shot at the Rolfe division title and we may not know where Cornell will play for the championship till tomorrow.  A Harvard win and Brown loss in their second games today would send Cornell to Harvard.

Still this is another example of an off-year for Princeton who had won the previous 9 Gehrig division titles (still impressive even with only four teams in the division).

[Tom Pasniewski 98]

Harvard rallied from 7-1 down to take the afternooncap 11-10.  Brown also won their second game.  The Rolfe division is still up in the air with Harvard needing to take one of two from Dartmouth tomorrow to win the division.  If so, it's best 2 out of 3 next weekend (2 Saturday, 1 Sunday if necessary) at Harvard for the Ivy title.  If Dartmouth should sweep, I believe there would be a one-game playoff between Harvard and Brown at some point this week.

[ugarte]

[Q]Tom Pasniewski 98 Wrote:

 Harvard rallied from 7-1 down to take the afternooncap 11-10.  Brown also won their second game.  The Rolfe division is still up in the air with Harvard needing to take one of two from Dartmouth tomorrow to win the division.  If so, it's best 2 out of 3 next weekend (2 Saturday, 1 Sunday if necessary) at Harvard for the Ivy title.  If Dartmouth should sweep, I believe there would be a one-game playoff between Harvard and Brown at some point this week. [/q]Would Cornell host if we end up playing Brown?

[Trotsky]

Does 2004-05 seem to anybody else to be a remarkable year for Cornell sports?  It seems like they are at/near the top in... damn near everything.

[Al DeFlorio]

[Q]ugarte Wrote:
Would Cornell host if we end up playing Brown?[/q]
No, the games will be at either Harvard or Brown.  Both have much better records than Cornell (14-4 and 14-6 vs. 11-9) and I suspect that's the determining factor.

[Liz '05]

Yes.  And it makes me happy :-D

[Tom Pasniewski 98]

Harvard over Dartmouth 10-6 in Game 1 of their doubleheader in Hanover today sends Cornell (11-9 Ivy) to Harvard (15-4 Ivy) for the championship series next weekend.  Harvard took two from Cornell earlier this season and was 7-1 against the Gehrig Division overall.

[ugarte]

[Q]Al DeFlorio Wrote:

 [Q2]ugarte Wrote:
Would Cornell host if we end up playing Brown?[/Q]
No, the games will be at either Harvard or Brown.  Both have much better records than Cornell (14-4 and 14-6 vs. 11-9) and I suspect that's the determining factor.[/q]I probably should have looked that up myself...

Thanks Al.

[NTR]

[Q]Trotsky Wrote:

 Does 2004-05 seem to anybody else to be a remarkable year for Cornell sports?  It seems like they are at/near the top in... damn near everything.[/q]
That just shows how selective, and faulty, even short-term memory can be-  ;-)

Cornell has won, I believe, 5 Ivy titles this year :`(  (volleyball, wrestling, men's lax, women's track, and one that really hurt)-

but has finished DEAD LAST a remarkable 7 times!  :-) (men's soccer and women's field hockey, basketball, fencing, ICE HOCKEY, squash, and tennis).

Harvard, by contrast, has won 11 titles and counting :-D  (far too many for me to list here...)

and has only been last once (women's lax).

The record for titles, IIRC, is Pton with 14 - doubtful, but still within reach, for Harvard this year.

[nyc94]

[Q]NTR Wrote:
Cornell has won, I believe, 5 Ivy titles this year   (volleyball, wrestling, men's lax, women's track, and one that really hurt)- [/q]

Cornell swept the indoor Heps so that would make 6 titles.

http://ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=4040

[KeithK]

I'll gladly be selective and remember the "one that really hurt" as definitive of a really successful sports year for Cornell!