Baseball’s offense came alive to win three of four games against Penn as the Light Blue faced elimination this weekend, forcing a one-game playoff on Saturday for the Lou Gehrig Division title and a spot in the Ivy League Championship Series.

In the spring of 2015, then-Ivy League Rookie of the Year Randell Kanemaru joined a squad of veteran college stars to win Columbia baseball’s third consecutive Ivy League Championship title.

Baseball swept Princeton in the penultimate weekend of Ivy play this weekend to set up a dramatic end to the season.

Baseball will head to the Bronx on Wednesday to take on Fordham in one of its last nonconference games of the season.

Baseball began its stretch of division play at home going 1-3 in a back-to-back doubleheader series against Cornell. While the Light Blue’s bats were productive over the weekend, averaging 6.5 runs per game, the pitching staff struggled against a team that leads the Ivy League in batting average, on-base percentage, and slugging percentage.

Baseball will begin divisional play within the Ivy League this weekend when it hosts Cornell in a four-game series.

Baseball struggled in its second Ivy matchup of the weekend, dropping a pair of games to Dartmouth (12-6, 2-0 Ivy) after winning both games against Harvard on Saturday.

With 31 varsity teams to accommodate in one of the densest cities in the country, Columbia Athletics has the unique challenge of finding proper facilities for all of its sports teams. But with the opening of an inflatable bubble over the Rocco B. Commisso Soccer Stadium in February, Columbia has a new solution that has reaped benefits across all programs, including baseball and its recruitment process.

Baseball suffered a tough spring break, dropping eight of nine games on a 10-day road trip to Mississippi and Louisiana.