Completed Event: Baseball versus Cornell on April 27, 2025 , Win , 7, to, 4
Final

Baseball
vs Cornell
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James H. Cooke Award (2020 team award)
All-Ivy League Second Team (2018)
Dartmouth Pitcher of the Year (2018 team award)
Ivy League Pitcher of the Week (May 7, 2018)
SENIOR (2020) | Game-by-Game Stats
Team co-captain was named the team’s James H. Cooke Award winner, given to the four-year letter winner who has done the most for Big Green baseball during his career … received the starting assignment for opening day and threw two-hit, shutout ball for 6.2 innings with five strikeouts before surrendering a home run that snuck over the fence just inside the foul pole in a 1-0 loss to Indiana State … also started the first of three games at Virginia, fanning three in four frames of work … career ended when the season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic after just seven contests.
SOPHOMORE (2018) | Game-by-Game Stats
All-Ivy League Second Team relief pitcher … chosen as the team’s Pitcher of the Year … led the conference with seven saves, ranked second in WHIP (1.10) and fewest walks per nine innings (1.39, 24th nationally), and was sixth in ERA (3.38) … also led the team in lowest batting average against (.249), fifth among Ivy pitchers, and appearances (17) … recorded a 2.52 ERA over 35.2 innings as a reliever … picked up his first career save by pitching a scoreless ninth in a 4-1 win over Georgetown … made starts against UC Santa Barbara and San José State, striking out four batters in 5.2 innings against the latter … twirled two perfect innings while striking out three to earn his first career victory in the home-opening, 11-4 triumph against Quinnipiac … got the final six outs of the 5-4 win at Penn to get another save … came back the next day versus the Quakers and struck out a season-high five batters in just 2.1 innings of work … dazzled against Columbia, tossing three innings of one-hit relief with four punchouts to truly earn the save in a 5-4 victory … saved both wins at Cornell by hurling two shutout stanzas in each contest … finished off a stretch of saves in four straight outings by handcuffing Yale for three innings on one hit, striking out three along the way in the 3-1 win … credited with the victory in both wins against Brown, the first a walk-off, 2-1 triumph in which he yielded just an unearned run in two innings … his second win over the Bears came on a Tuesday in a rescheduled game with seven scoreless innings of relief while allowing a solitary hit and striking out four in another 2-1 win, this time in 13 innings … had streak of 19.1 innings without giving up an earned run against Princeton, but still finished off the 6-2 triumph … named the Ivy League Pitcher of the Week for his performances in the extra-inning win against Brown and Princeton … seventh save came at Harvard by getting the final seven outs in a 6-5 win without yielding a run.
FRESHMAN (2017) | Game-by-Game Stats
Recorded the highest strikeout-to-walk ratio on the team (12.5) … all but one of his 11 appearances came out of the bullpen, half of which were scoreless outings … had a stretch of 14.1 innings without issuing a walk … collegiate debut came at The Citadel, hurling 2.1 shutout innings of relief … needed just eight pitches to twirl a perfect inning against 26th-ranked UCF … fanned five over 3.2 frames while yielding a single run at Holy Cross … set a season high the next time out with six strikeouts in three innings against UMass Lowell … closed out a 7-1 win over Brown with a perfect ninth … provided 2.1 crucial innings in the 8-3 win over Boston College, giving up one run while punching out three … only start came at Yale, allowing three runs in three stanzas ... tossed two perfect innings with three whiffs to end the game at Siena in a 9-9 tie … Futures Collegiate Baseball League Pitcher of the Year in the summer of 2017.
HIGH SCHOOL
Four-year letterman at Hamilton-Wenham for coach Reggie Maidment before taking a postgrad year at Cheshire Academy ... served as team captain at both institutions … boasted a 1.40 ERA with 176 strikeouts over his junior and senior years combined … Western New England Prep Baseball League Pitcher of the Year at Cheshire, helping the Fighting Cats to the WNEPBL Championship … All-Cape Ann League First Team and team MVP three times each at Hamilton-Wenham … ESPNBoston All-State Second Team as a junior with a 1.37 ERA and 92 strikeouts in 61.1 innings, including a no-hitter in the state tournament as the Generals advanced to the title game … three-year letterman on H-W basketball team as well … member of perfect 25-0 D4 state champions as a senior ... opening speaker at Cheshire graduation ceremony.
PERSONAL
Full name is Austen David Michel (pronounced mih-SHEL) … son of Mark and Alice Michel has one sister … born on June 22, 1997 in Framingham, Massachusetts … father played basketball at Union College … sights set on majoring in economics for a business career.