PHILADELPHIA – Following a remarkable series of events last weekend, the University of Pennsylvania baseball team will host fellow co-Ivy League regular season champion Columbia in the 2022 Ivy League Playoff Series this weekend at Meiklejohn Stadium.

Penn clinched a share of the Ivy League title on Sunday after completing a three-game sweep of Princeton, paired with Columbia dropping two of three its Ivy Series to Dartmouth. The Big Green rallied from a 10-4 eighth inning deficit for a 12-11, 10-inning victory in the final game of that series. The Quakers will host this weekend's series by virtue of winning the season series against the Lions.

TICKETS
 
Penn (32-13, 17-4) vs. Columbia (27-15, 17-4)
Game 1 | Saturday, May 21 | 1 p.m. | WATCH | STATS
Game 2 | Sunday, May 22 | 12 p.m. | WATCH | STATS
Game 3 (if necessary) | Sunday, May 22 | 30 mins after end of Game 2 | WATCH | STATS
* Penn will be the designated home team for Games 1 and 3; Columbia will be the designated home team for Game 2.

PROJECTED STARTERS
PENN: Kevin Eaise (7-1, 3.88 ERA), Joe Miller (6-3, 3.50 ERA), Cole Zaffiro (2-0, 4.25 ERA)
COLUMBIA: JD Ogden (2-0, 2.42 ERA), Joe Sheets (2-1, 5.13 ERA), TBD

The Series -- This Season
The Quakers took two of three on the road from the Lions the last weekend of March in the first Ivy League series of the season.

Penn took the first game 10-5 and the series finale 13-7, with Columbia erasing a 10-5 deficit entering the eighth for an 11-10 walk-off win in the second game.

News, Notes and Numbers: PENN
0 • Penn did not lose a single Ivy League series this season, sweeping Princeton, Brown, and Cornell, and taking two of three from Columbia, Dartmouth, Yale, and Harvard. Including non-conference, Penn has won 10 straight series dating back to mid-March.

13 • With a go-ahead three-run homer on Wednesday against Bucknell, Wyatt Henseler set the program's new single-season home run record at 13.

17 • By sweeping Princeton last Sunday, Penn set a new program-record for Ivy League wins in a season with 17.

20 • Penn drew 20 more walks than any other team in Ivy League play, with four players among the top nine individually – Cole Palis, Seth Werchan, Ben Miller (16, T-3rd), Jackson Appel (15, T-6^th)

33 • Penn allowed 33 fewer earned runs than Columbia in Ivy League play, posting an ERA of 3.51 to Columbia's 5.09.

47 • Game 2 on Sunday will be Penn's 47th game of the season, which will set a new program-record, breaking the existing record held by the 1995 team.

60 • Ivy League opponents hit .224 off Penn pitching this season, 60 points lower than the .284 mark allowed by the Columbia staff.

269 • Game 1 of the ILCS will be the 269th meeting between Columbia and the Quakers. Penn holds the series edge, with a 137-128-3 record against the Lions dating back to 1886.

455 • Penn's pitching staff enters ILCS weekend with 455 strikeouts on the season, long since surpassing the previous program record of 358, set in 2018.

Scouting Columbia
Entering April at 7-13 on the season, Columbia put together a month to remember, winning 18 straight games, including 15 straight in Ivy League play, a conference record. The Lions' only conference losses came to Penn and Dartmouth in the first and last Ivy series of the season.

Six everyday players hit over .330 in conference play, with Weston Eberly (1.217), Hayden Schott (1.137), and Cole Hage (1.132) ranking 2nd, 4th, and 5th in OPS in Ivy action.

Five pitchers finished the regular season with ERA's under 5.00 in conference play. Andy Leon had four straight scoreless outings in conference play totaling 11 innings. Griffin Palfrey had five straight scoreless outings in conference play totaling nine innings with 11 strikeouts. Saajan May had a dominant final three outings to close the regular season: 11.1 innings, no runs, nine hits, no walks.

About the Ivy League
The Ivy League stands at the pinnacle of higher education and Division I athletics, rooted in the longstanding, defining principle that intercollegiate athletics competition should be "kept in harmony with the essential educational purposes of the institution." Unrivaled in its legacy, The Ivy League provides the true test of academic and co-curricular rigor – fostering an enduring culture that celebrates a storied-tradition, thrives on shared values and holds paramount the academic and personal growth of students.

Consistently ranked as the top academic conference and with more national championships than any other collegiate athletic conference, The Ivy League showcased over 240 nationally-ranked programs over the past three years and prides itself on sponsoring 34 sports, the highest number of any NCAA conference, with more than 8,000 student-athletes competing annually. The League's world-renowned schools – Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale – serve as the standard bearers for inspiring and transforming student- athletes to boldly take on the world's challenges and lead lives of great impact.