2012 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series Explained

Year:2012
Conference:Ivy League
Teams:2
Format:Best of three series
Ballpark:Hoy Field
City:Ithaca, New York
Champions:Cornell
Titlecount:1st
Coach:Bill Walkenbach
Coachcount:1st
Different Previous:2011
Different Next:2013

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., the winner of the series, claimed the Ivy League's automatic berth in the 2012 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.

Cornell won the series, which required all three games, on an 11th inning walk-off home run by Chris Cruz.[1] 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

Game Two

Game Three

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cornell Walks Off with the 2012 Ivy League Championship Series Title. ivyleaguesports.com. 2012-05-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20120510063814/http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/sports/bsb/2011-12/releases/Cornell_Wins_Ivy_League_Championship_Series. 2012-05-10. dead.