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Lacrosse remains winless in conference play after a blowout loss against No. 18 Princeton on Saturday. Sophomore midfielder Cecelia Messner’s five goals were not enough to push the Lions over the edge, as they suffered a 24-12 defeat.
Baseball was faced with a tall task last weekend when reigning Ivy League champion Penn came to the Baker Athletics Complex for a three-game series.
Baseball opened up Ivy League play last weekend with a series win over the Harvard Crimson.
Yale beat Brown in buzzer-beating fashion on Sunday at Levien Gymnasium to clinch a spot in March Madness for the seventh time in program history. A last-second shot from Yale forward Matt Knowling decided the game in the Bulldogs’ favor, 62-61, and ended an improbable Ivy Madness run from the tournament’s No. 4 seed.
Men’s Ivy Madness started with a bang in Levien Gymnasium. While Princeton suffered one of the biggest upset losses of the college basketball postseason to No. 4 seed Brown, Yale walked away victorious from a physical and competitive contest against Cornell to make its fourth consecutive appearance in the Ivy Madness championship.
Columbia baseball bounced back from its season-opening outing in Florida with a sweep against in-state rival Marist College. Senior infielder Jack Cooper led the way with four home runs, 15 RBIs, and 22 total bases from twelve at bats on the weekend, earning him NCAA National Player of the Week and Ivy League Player of the Week honors.
Women’s lacrosse traveled to Philadelphia for its first Ivy matchup of the season against No. 14 Penn this weekend. Taking on the defending Ivy League women’s lacrosse champions proved to be too great a feat for the Lions, who fell 16-5 to the Quakers.
Men’s basketball lost two crucial back-to-back Ivy League games against Brown and Yale over the weekend, severely impacting its chances of competing in the upcoming Ivy League Tournament, which will take place at Levien Gymnasium.