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Friday, March 24
Princeton, N.J. / Clarke Field
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Ivy Season Begins at Princeton
3/24/2023 9:33:00 AM | Baseball
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The Big Green have beaten the Tigers nine of the last 10 meetings
DARTMOUTH (1-13, 0-0) at PRINCETON (6-11, 0-0)
March 24-26, 2023 • Clarke Field • Princeton, N.J.
March 24-26, 2023 • Clarke Field • Princeton, N.J.
New Season Begins with Ivy Play
Dartmouth is ready to put the first 14 games of the season in the rear-view mirror and focus on its Ivy League competition with a three-game series at Princeton this weekend. This is the first trip to Clarke Field for the Big Green since 2016 due to various factors, including the pandemic. The doubleheader originally scheduled for Saturday has been changed to single games on Friday and Saturday to try and avoid impending rain coming to the region.
Spring Trip in Review
• What started off well with a 6-1 win at South Florida turned into a six-game skid as Dartmouth went 1-6 in its most recent trip to the Sunshine State.
• Tyler Cox enjoyed the surroundings, hitting a robust .583 (14-for-24) over the seven contests with a .677 on-base percentage, but despite reaching base 21 times, he scored just four runs. He enters the weekend among the top 15 nationally in both average and OBP.
• The only other player to hit better than .250 on the trip down South was Kolton Freeman who was 8-for-14 (.571) with five walks (.684 OBP), but he missed the last two games with an injury.
• Right-hander Jack Metzger found his groove on the mound, closing out the win at USF with 1.1 scoreless innings before holding a potent UCF lineup to three runs over seven innings while striking out a career-high seven batters.
• The lone victory this season has gone to Clark Gilmore, thanks to his five innings of one-run relief against the Bulls. His 5.56 ERA on the season is the best on the team for anyone with more than one appearance.
• The Big Green scored first in five of the seven games on the trip yet came away with only one victory.
• The 1-13 record is Dartmouth's slowest start to a season since head coach Bob Whalen's third year on the job in 1992. That team opened the year 1-15 but nearly broke even in Ivy play at 6-8.
• While this series will provide Princeton with its first home games of the year, Dartmouth has to wait until next weekend when it hosts Penn for a three-game Ivy League series.
Overall Record vs. Princeton
• The Tigers have the advantage in the all-time series at 100-94 against Dartmouth, but the Big Green have been closing fast by winning nine of the last 10 meetings, including a season sweep in Hanover last year.
• As mentioned earlier, this is Dartmouth's first trip to Princeton in seven years; the 2019 series ended up being played at Rutgers due to field conditions.
• The last time the Big Green played on Clarke Field, the Tigers won a pair of one-run games, 2-1 followed by a 10-inning, 9-8 final to improve to 30-26 on their home field against Dartmouth.
• Big Green head coach Bob Whalen has a 35-40 record against the Tigers, while Princeton's Scott Bradley is 29-30 versus Dartmouth.
• The two teams first met on the diamond in 1880 with Princeton winning both contests, 2-0 and 9-4. The Tigers won 17 of the first 18 games.
Scouting the Tigers
• Princeton has found more success of late, winning three of its last four games, topping Cincinnati twice and SC Upstate as well.
• The Tigers also have wins over Power 5 programs Georgia (12-11) and Duke (7-3).
• Although Princeton is second in the league with 17 home runs, it averages 4.41 runs per game, only slightly higher than the 4.25 average Dartmouth has posted with just six long balls.
• Scott Bandura (.313/.370/.522) is the lone Tiger hitting over .300, though Eric Marasheski (.293) and Brendan Cumming (.292) aren't far off the mark, while Kyle Vinci leads the team with five round-trippers.
• There hasn't been much of a running game thus far with just nine stolen bases in 13 attempts, four courtesy of Bandura.
• Princeton pitchers have posted a 9.07 ERA, partly due to control issues having issued 6.5 walks per nine innings.
• But the five pitchers that will likely pitch the bulk of the innings this weekend have combined for an ERA of 5.30 with better control.
• In the field, the Tigers have committed 30 errors (.949 fielding percentage) leading to 30 unearned runs.
• Scott Bradley (North Carolina '82) is in his 25th season as the Tigers' head coach with a record of 426-572-2 entering the series. He has guided Princeton to seven Ivy League titles and NCAA Tournament appearances, and he also enjoyed a nine-year MLB career, playing primarily for the Seattle Mariners.
Probable Starting Pitchers
• Dartmouth will send LHP Trystan Sarcone (0-3, 15.43) to the mound for the Ivy opener. A second-team All-Ivy selection a year ago, Sarcone has had a rocky start to the 2023 campaign after leading the league in fewest walks issued per nine innings in 2022.
• For the second game, RHP Jack Metzger (0-2, 8.68) will toe the slab for the Big Green. Other than a rough start against Holy Cross, Metzger has been Dartmouth's best pitcher thus far. He is coming off a career-long seven-inning performance at UCF during which he allowed just three runs and struck out a personal-best seven batters, though he did not get a decision after leaving with a 9-3 lead.
• The starter for the series finale on Sunday has not been announced, but will likely be RHP Eddie Albert (0-1, 6.00). The rookie last pitched against UCF out of the bullpen a week ago, giving up just one run over four frames and struck out six in a five-inning start versus Wagner at the beginning of the month.
• Princeton will counter with RHP Jackson Emus (0-2, 6.50), LHP Tom Chmielewski (1-3, 5.06) — last week's Ivy League Pitcher of the Week — and RHP Matt Scannell (1-0, 11.88).
What's Up Next
Dartmouth will have a week to prepare for its home-opening series against Penn with no mid-week games on tap. Saturday's doubleheader on April Fool's Day will begin at 11:30 a.m. with Sunday's finale at noon.
Strength of Schedule
There aren't many leagues across the country that have played a more difficult schedule as a group than the Ivy League. Dartmouth's strength of schedule by RPI thus far is 62, third in the league to Columbia (12) and this weekend's opponent, Princeton (49). If you use the Iterative Strength Ratings (ISR) used by Boyd's World, the rankings are even more impressive for the Lions (6), Tigers (12) and B … ig Green (24).
Cox Steering the Ship
A little rowing humor for you there. Junior Tyler Cox was 10th in the nation last year with a .402 average, and he has picked up right where he left off. During the spring-break trip, the shortstop had 14 hits in the seven games while posting a .583 average. He also walked seven times and reached base at a .677 clip. Cox currently is hitting .451 on the season, 13th among Division I hitters, while ranking 12th in on-base percentage (.556), not to mention 14th toughest to strike out (once every 17.0 at-bats).
Perfect Day for Krewson
Although Dartmouth lost the first game of the two-game series at Jacksonville, 8-3, sophomore Elliot Krewson had an otherwise perfect day. Perfect at the plate, that is. The second baseman was a modest 2-for-2, but also walked twice and was hit by a pitch to reach base all five plate appearances. He also scored two of the Big Green's three runs and is tied for the team lead with nine runs scored on the season.
Defense Tightening Up
The first few games of the season can be a little shaky in the field having practiced almost exclusively indoors before playing actual opponents, and this season is no exception. Dartmouth committed 13 errors in the first six games, but since then has just five in the last eight (a .982 fielding percentage) while surrendering just two unearned runs. The defense has also turned at least one double play in seven of those eight games to help out the pitchers, and only two Ivy teams have turned more twin killings this year.
The Schwartz Is With Him
Ryan Schwartz hasn't seen much playing time in his career, but he certainly has made the most of his opportunities this season. The senior quietly made his first appearance of the year as a pinch runner in the 6-1 win over South Florida on March 14 before getting his first chances at the plate as a pinch hitter in both games of the Jacksonville series. In the first contest, he dropped a single into center field, and the next night he lined a single to left, eventually coming around to score the first run of his career. In a Dartmouth uniform, he is 3-for-5 (.600) with a double, run scored and an RBI.
Dartmouth is ready to put the first 14 games of the season in the rear-view mirror and focus on its Ivy League competition with a three-game series at Princeton this weekend. This is the first trip to Clarke Field for the Big Green since 2016 due to various factors, including the pandemic. The doubleheader originally scheduled for Saturday has been changed to single games on Friday and Saturday to try and avoid impending rain coming to the region.
Spring Trip in Review
• What started off well with a 6-1 win at South Florida turned into a six-game skid as Dartmouth went 1-6 in its most recent trip to the Sunshine State.
• Tyler Cox enjoyed the surroundings, hitting a robust .583 (14-for-24) over the seven contests with a .677 on-base percentage, but despite reaching base 21 times, he scored just four runs. He enters the weekend among the top 15 nationally in both average and OBP.
• The only other player to hit better than .250 on the trip down South was Kolton Freeman who was 8-for-14 (.571) with five walks (.684 OBP), but he missed the last two games with an injury.
• Right-hander Jack Metzger found his groove on the mound, closing out the win at USF with 1.1 scoreless innings before holding a potent UCF lineup to three runs over seven innings while striking out a career-high seven batters.
• The lone victory this season has gone to Clark Gilmore, thanks to his five innings of one-run relief against the Bulls. His 5.56 ERA on the season is the best on the team for anyone with more than one appearance.
• The Big Green scored first in five of the seven games on the trip yet came away with only one victory.
• The 1-13 record is Dartmouth's slowest start to a season since head coach Bob Whalen's third year on the job in 1992. That team opened the year 1-15 but nearly broke even in Ivy play at 6-8.
• While this series will provide Princeton with its first home games of the year, Dartmouth has to wait until next weekend when it hosts Penn for a three-game Ivy League series.
Overall Record vs. Princeton
• The Tigers have the advantage in the all-time series at 100-94 against Dartmouth, but the Big Green have been closing fast by winning nine of the last 10 meetings, including a season sweep in Hanover last year.
• As mentioned earlier, this is Dartmouth's first trip to Princeton in seven years; the 2019 series ended up being played at Rutgers due to field conditions.
• The last time the Big Green played on Clarke Field, the Tigers won a pair of one-run games, 2-1 followed by a 10-inning, 9-8 final to improve to 30-26 on their home field against Dartmouth.
• Big Green head coach Bob Whalen has a 35-40 record against the Tigers, while Princeton's Scott Bradley is 29-30 versus Dartmouth.
• The two teams first met on the diamond in 1880 with Princeton winning both contests, 2-0 and 9-4. The Tigers won 17 of the first 18 games.
Scouting the Tigers
• Princeton has found more success of late, winning three of its last four games, topping Cincinnati twice and SC Upstate as well.
• The Tigers also have wins over Power 5 programs Georgia (12-11) and Duke (7-3).
• Although Princeton is second in the league with 17 home runs, it averages 4.41 runs per game, only slightly higher than the 4.25 average Dartmouth has posted with just six long balls.
• Scott Bandura (.313/.370/.522) is the lone Tiger hitting over .300, though Eric Marasheski (.293) and Brendan Cumming (.292) aren't far off the mark, while Kyle Vinci leads the team with five round-trippers.
• There hasn't been much of a running game thus far with just nine stolen bases in 13 attempts, four courtesy of Bandura.
• Princeton pitchers have posted a 9.07 ERA, partly due to control issues having issued 6.5 walks per nine innings.
• But the five pitchers that will likely pitch the bulk of the innings this weekend have combined for an ERA of 5.30 with better control.
• In the field, the Tigers have committed 30 errors (.949 fielding percentage) leading to 30 unearned runs.
• Scott Bradley (North Carolina '82) is in his 25th season as the Tigers' head coach with a record of 426-572-2 entering the series. He has guided Princeton to seven Ivy League titles and NCAA Tournament appearances, and he also enjoyed a nine-year MLB career, playing primarily for the Seattle Mariners.
Probable Starting Pitchers
• Dartmouth will send LHP Trystan Sarcone (0-3, 15.43) to the mound for the Ivy opener. A second-team All-Ivy selection a year ago, Sarcone has had a rocky start to the 2023 campaign after leading the league in fewest walks issued per nine innings in 2022.
• For the second game, RHP Jack Metzger (0-2, 8.68) will toe the slab for the Big Green. Other than a rough start against Holy Cross, Metzger has been Dartmouth's best pitcher thus far. He is coming off a career-long seven-inning performance at UCF during which he allowed just three runs and struck out a personal-best seven batters, though he did not get a decision after leaving with a 9-3 lead.
• The starter for the series finale on Sunday has not been announced, but will likely be RHP Eddie Albert (0-1, 6.00). The rookie last pitched against UCF out of the bullpen a week ago, giving up just one run over four frames and struck out six in a five-inning start versus Wagner at the beginning of the month.
• Princeton will counter with RHP Jackson Emus (0-2, 6.50), LHP Tom Chmielewski (1-3, 5.06) — last week's Ivy League Pitcher of the Week — and RHP Matt Scannell (1-0, 11.88).
What's Up Next
Dartmouth will have a week to prepare for its home-opening series against Penn with no mid-week games on tap. Saturday's doubleheader on April Fool's Day will begin at 11:30 a.m. with Sunday's finale at noon.
Strength of Schedule
There aren't many leagues across the country that have played a more difficult schedule as a group than the Ivy League. Dartmouth's strength of schedule by RPI thus far is 62, third in the league to Columbia (12) and this weekend's opponent, Princeton (49). If you use the Iterative Strength Ratings (ISR) used by Boyd's World, the rankings are even more impressive for the Lions (6), Tigers (12) and B … ig Green (24).
Cox Steering the Ship
A little rowing humor for you there. Junior Tyler Cox was 10th in the nation last year with a .402 average, and he has picked up right where he left off. During the spring-break trip, the shortstop had 14 hits in the seven games while posting a .583 average. He also walked seven times and reached base at a .677 clip. Cox currently is hitting .451 on the season, 13th among Division I hitters, while ranking 12th in on-base percentage (.556), not to mention 14th toughest to strike out (once every 17.0 at-bats).
Perfect Day for Krewson
Although Dartmouth lost the first game of the two-game series at Jacksonville, 8-3, sophomore Elliot Krewson had an otherwise perfect day. Perfect at the plate, that is. The second baseman was a modest 2-for-2, but also walked twice and was hit by a pitch to reach base all five plate appearances. He also scored two of the Big Green's three runs and is tied for the team lead with nine runs scored on the season.
Defense Tightening Up
The first few games of the season can be a little shaky in the field having practiced almost exclusively indoors before playing actual opponents, and this season is no exception. Dartmouth committed 13 errors in the first six games, but since then has just five in the last eight (a .982 fielding percentage) while surrendering just two unearned runs. The defense has also turned at least one double play in seven of those eight games to help out the pitchers, and only two Ivy teams have turned more twin killings this year.
The Schwartz Is With Him
Ryan Schwartz hasn't seen much playing time in his career, but he certainly has made the most of his opportunities this season. The senior quietly made his first appearance of the year as a pinch runner in the 6-1 win over South Florida on March 14 before getting his first chances at the plate as a pinch hitter in both games of the Jacksonville series. In the first contest, he dropped a single into center field, and the next night he lined a single to left, eventually coming around to score the first run of his career. In a Dartmouth uniform, he is 3-for-5 (.600) with a double, run scored and an RBI.
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