Senior Day on Saturday for Final Ivy Weekend

DARTMOUTH (2-34, 1-17) vs. CORNELL (7-25, 6-12)
May 6-7, 2023 • Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park • Hanover, N.H.

Senior Day Weekend
Dartmouth is looking to build upon its first victory in a month and a half when it hosts the Big Red to conclude the Ivy League slate. And with this being the final home games of the year, Saturday is Senior Day with the graduating players being honored between games of the doubleheader.

Overall Record vs. Big Red
• Dartmouth owns the advantage in the all-time series at 101-87-1, having won its 100th game against Cornell just last season.
• The Big Green took the series in Ithaca last year, dropping the opener before storming back to win the final two.
• Cornell won the series in 2019 and is 8-11 at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park. And although it is 9-22 in the last 31 games in Hanover, it is 23-27 in Hanover since 1970.
• Dartmouth head coach Bob Whalen has a 42-29 mark in games against Cornell and posted his 600th career victory against the Big Red in the final game of the 2019 campaign.
• These two teams met in the Ivy Championship Series twice, first in 2009 with Dartmouth winning the best-of-three series, then again in 2012 when the Big Red exacted their revenge.
• The first games in the series took place on April 10-11, 1906, with Cornell winning both games.

Last Year Against the Big Red
• The Big Green outscored Cornell over the three games, 29-22, in winning the series, two games to one.
• The opener went to the Big Red, however, as the hosts jumped out to a 7-0 lead through two innings and cruised to a 12-7 triumph. Cornell slammed four home runs in the contest and Sam Kaplan went 4-for-4 with a long ball and two triples, scoring four times to lead the Big Red. Connor Bertsch drove in a pair and was one of eight Dartmouth players with one hit.
• The second game was a lopsided affair in the other direction with the Green taking a 12-2 contest. Trystan Sarcone starred on the mound, fanning a career-high 10 batters in eight innings of work. Dartmouth had just a 4-0 lead entering the seventh before erupting for eight runs in the next two stanzas. Kade Kretzschmar was a perfect 2-for-2 with a home run, three runs and three RBIs and Tyler Cox led Dartmouth with three hits, scoring three times as well.
• The Big Green outlasted Cornell in the rubber game, 10-8, after rallying from a five-run deficit, their largest comeback in five years. Four players had three hits for Dartmouth, one of whom was Kretzschmar who broke an 8-8 deadlock in the eighth by sprinting home on a wild pitch. Bertsch and Max Zajec both homered for the Green, the first of the latter's career, and reliever Cole Roland earned the win after yielding one earned run over five frames before Jack Metzger closed out the win with two scoreless innings for his fifth save.

Scouting Cornell
• The Big Red opened the season losing all 12 games before Ivy League play began, then took two of three from Yale. They have also won a series at Harvard and took a game from both Columbia and Penn.
• Cornell is averaging nearly five runs a game, sixth in the Ivy League, but they are third in the league in homers in conference play (17). The team's overall slash line is .244/.335/.376, giving it the fifth-best OPS in the Ancient Eight.
• Nathan Waugh has been the Big Red's best hitter at .322/.426/.556, leading the team with five homers despite missing seven games.
• Cornell has good team speed with four players stealing at least seven bases, led by Jakobi Davis with 13.
• The pitching staff is essentially tied for sixth in the league with a 6.91 ERA, but seventh with a better 6.06 ERA while walking 5.7 batters per nine in league play.
• Noah Keller has been the top starter on the mound with two of the Big Red's seven wins, while the bullpen is anchored by Carson Mayfield (1-2, 5.11 ERA in 44.0 innings).
• Cornell is tied for sixth in fielding percentage (.962) and has allowed 71 stolen bases while throwing out just 16 (83.5 percent success).
• Dan Pepicelli (SUNY Cortland '89) is in his eighth year as the Ted Thoren Head Coach of Baseball with a record of 82-141-1 entering the weekend. He also spent nine seasons posting a 200-137-1 record at St. John Fisher from 2001-2009.

Probable Starting Pitchers
• Dartmouth will kick off the weekend with LHP Devin Milberg (0-2, 4.50) on the mound. The junior has not allowed a run in any of his four starts this season, albeit totaling just 12.0 innings. The Big Red will counter with a southpaw of their own, LHP Spencer Edwards (1-3, 6.45), who is making his fourth start after 14 relief appearances. In his three starts, he has a 6.75 ERA, but did throw four no-hit innings against Harvard.
• For game two, the Big Green double up on the left-handers with LHP Trystan Sarcone (0-6, 8.04) looking to rebound from his outing at Brown that was cut short due to illness. Even with that rough start, he leads the team in ERA against Ivy League foes (5.24) with 31 strikeouts in 34.1 innings. Cornell has RHP Ethan Hamill (1-6, 8.00) lined up to take the hill, who has surrendered 12 home runs in 45.0 innings in his rookie campaign.
• The finale on Sunday will feature RHP Clark Gilmore (2-4, 6.21) for Dartmouth against LHP Noah Keller (2-5, 5.79) for the Big Red. Gilmore is coming off the Big Green's best start of the year, a complete-game, 2-1 victory at Brown. Keller posted a 2.25 ERA in his first four Ivy starts, but in his last two outings combined to allow eight earned runs in nine innings.

What's Up Next
Dartmouth will end the season with a non-conference doubleheader at Sacred Heart next Saturday, May 13, beginning at 11:30 a.m. It will be the Pioneers' Senior Day.

VICTORY
It should not be surprising that we are highlighting the 2-1 win in the series finale at Brown on April 29. The victory ended a program-record 27-game losing streak that began 45 days prior on March 15. Clark Gilmore was outstanding on the mound, throwing the Big Green's first nine-inning, complete game in four years and first one that ended in a victory in seven. The right-hander, who had not thrown more than five frames in any outing in his collegiate career, needed 109 pitches to record the 27 outs, and the only run against him was unearned as he struck out five without issuing a walk. Tyler Robinson provided the go-ahead RBI in the seventh when he was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.

Bats Do Just Enough in Win
The 2-1 win at Brown was quite the pitchers' duel, but thankfully Dartmouth did just enough at the plate to pull out the victory. As a team, the Big Green collected just four hits in the contest, their fewest in a win since a 1-0 triumph at Gardner-Webb on March 5, 2022, when they had just three. Both runs were scored by hitters that drew a walk — Tyler Robinson in the first and Connor Bertsch in the seventh.

Missed Opportunity
While Dartmouth ended its losing streak in the last game at Brown, it had a good chance of snapping the skid earlier in the day in the first game of the doubleheader. The Big Green had a 2-0 lead through six innings, but when Brown started the seventh with a bloop double, things snowballed on Dartmouth as the Bears rallied for four runs. Devin Milberg pitched the first three scoreless innings and Jack Metzger threw three more before trouble found him in that fateful seventh.

Double-Triple
No, I'm not talking about basketball or a triple-double. In the second game at Brown, Tyler Robinson stroked not one, but two triples in the 4-3 defeat, scoring each of the Big Green's final two runs. He became the 29th player in program history to leg out two three-baggers in a game, and even more astounding is that of his 14 career extra-base hits, 10 have been triples.

Krewson Puts a Bruisin' on the Ball
Dartmouth may have trailed host Brown by eight runs in the eighth when Elliot Krewson stepped to the plate, but the sophomore wasn't about to give up. He got into a hitter's count at 3-1, then belted a pitch to deep left-center, just over the fence for his first career home run. It is the Big Green's only long ball in the last 10 games. Over the last month, Krewson has been battering the baseball to the tune of a .364 average (24-for-66) with eight multi-hit games in 16 contests. He leads the team with a dozen games of two or more hits, including a season-high four knocks at Holy Cross on April 25.

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Players Mentioned

Connor Bertsch

Tyler Cox

Clark Gilmore

Kade Kretzschmar

Elliot Krewson

Jack Metzger

Devin Milberg

Tyler Robinson

Cole Roland

Trystan Sarcone

Max Zajec

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