Cornell (1-2) at James Madison (5-3)
When	March 1-3
Where	Harrisonburg, Va. // Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial Park
Watch	No live stream
Radio	Friday | Saturday | Sunday
Live Stats	Friday | Saturday | Sunday
Notes	Cornell | James Madison

 

Probable Starting Pitchers
Day	Cornell		Opponent
Fri. 2 p.m. ET	RHP Carson Mayfield (0-0, 6.00 ERA)		RHP Todd Mozoki (0-1, 12.86 ERA)
Sat. 2 p.m. ET	RHP Von Baker (0-0, 6.75 ERA)		LHP Max Kuhle (0-1, 3.38 ERA)
Sun. 1 p.m. ET	LHP William Jaun (1-0, 3.60 ERA)		RHP Ryan Murphy (1-0, 5.19 ERA)

ITHACA, N.Y. — The Cornell baseball team continues its 12-game season-opening road trip with a three-game series against James Madison in Harrisonburg, Va., at Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial Park.

No live streams will be available this weekend, but a radio call from James Madison will be provided for each contest. Curt Dudley will supply the play-by-play on each day.

WEEKEND REWIND
• Cornell opened its 153rd season of baseball with a three-game set in Atlanta against Georgia Tech at Mac Nease Baseball Park at Russ Chandler Stadium last weekend.

• The Big Red avoided being swept by the Yellow Jackets with an 11-4 victory on Sunday after suffering 9-6 and 12-2 setbacks on Friday and Saturday, respectively.

• Seniors Matt Barnhorst (3-for-8, two runs, double, RBI) and Nathan Waugh (4-for-12, three runs, home run, two RBI), junior Ryan Porter (3-for-9, two RBI), and sophomore Caden Wildman (4-for-13, three runs, double) all had batting averages north of .300 on the weekend.

• Freshmen Luke Johnson (2-for-9, two runs, two doubles, two RBI), Mark Quatrani (2-for-4, home run, RBI), Kevin Hager (1-for-3, RBI), and Owen Carlson (1-for-4), and junior William Jaun (1-for-8, double) all collected their first collegiate hits on the weekend.

• Jaun, who was the starting pitcher last Sunday, made his first appearance on the mound for the Big Red and collected the win, logging 5.0 innings of work, allowing a pair of runs on four hits. Sophomore Ethan Hamill registered his first collegiate save in the victory for the Big Red, pitching the final four innings and allowing two runs and three hits.

• Last Sunday's victory was the first time Cornell was not swept in its first weekend of play since posting a 2-1 record against Navy to open the 2017 season.

WELCOME (BACK) TO THE COMMONWEALTH!
• This weekend will mark the first of nine consecutive games for Cornell inside the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Big Red will return for a three-game series against Georgetown in Tyson, Va., which begins with a Saturday doubleheader from Capital One Park. Cornell's final trip to Virginia this season will be against Richmond, where it will play the Spiders from March 15-17.

• Virginia is the most represented state on the roster with seven representatives. Senior catcher Braden Mack (Woodbridge), junior pitcher Will Long (Great Falls), junior infielder Max Jensen (Burke), sophomore pitchers Ethan Hamill (Chester), Carson Mayfield (Annandale), and Asher Gardy (Springfield), and freshman pitcher Ethan Van Sice (Arlington) all hail from the Old Dominion.

AGAINST JAMES MADISON
• Cornell was swept by James Madison in a season-opening three-game series against the Dukes last season, falling by scores of 11-5, 9-2, and 7-5.

• Senior catcher Nathan Waugh (3-for-9, two runs, home run, two RBI) and junior infielder Max Jensen (3-for-10, run, RBI) both had batting averages north of .300 in the series. Waugh and Jensen both recorded one hit apiece off of Todd Mozoki, who is the Dukes' scheduled starter for Friday.

• Sophomore infielder TJ Swidorski (2-for-7, home run, 2 RBI) clubbed his first home run in his first collegiate at-bat against Ryan Murphy, who is James Madison's slated starter for Sunday. Junior outfielder Jakobi Davis (3-for-13, two doubles, home run, two RBI), senior infielder Matt Barnhorst (2-for-10, home run), and since-graduated infielder Ryan Ross (1-for-6, home run, three RBI) all hit round-trippers for the Big Red in last year's series.

WAUGH(TCH) IT FLY
• Senior catcher Nathan Waugh was Cornell's hottest hitter to conclude the 2023 campaign, and he picked up right where he left off last weekend at Georgia Tech (where he is slated to play his post-graduate year in 2025).

• Over his final 11 games last year and the first three games this year, Waugh is slashing .418/.492/.655 with four doubles, three home runs, and 12 RBI.

• After batting just .133 (4-of-30) in his first nine games in 2023, Waugh has hit for a .400 clip (34-of-85) with seven doubles, six home runs, and 23 RBI over his last 22 games, dating back to last season. Waugh also has 10 multi-hit games — including two four-hit games — and five multi-RBI performances, featuring a pair of four-RBI games.

WHEN IT RUNS, IT POURS
• Cornell has displayed a knack of scoring runs in bundles since the beginning of last season.

• Of the Big Red's 192 runs scored since the 2023 season opener, 138 have come in innings that have featured at least two runs cross home plate (71.9 percent of run production).

• Across its previous 50 games, going back to the 2022 season, Cornell had at least one multi-run inning in 40 games (80.0 percent).

• So far this year, Cornell has recorded one two-run inning, a pair of three-run innings, and also plated a season-high four runs (all of which were unearned) in the ninth inning of its 11-4 victory over Georgia Tech last Sunday.

IVY LEAGUE PRESEASON POLL
• The Ivy League preseason poll was announced Feb. 19 with Penn pitted as the unanimous favorite following a vote of 16 panelists.

• Columbia was picked second, finishing as the only other program to reach the century mark in points (101). Harvard (97 points) and Princeton (87 points) were the other anticipated programs to round out this year's four-team Ivy League Tournament field.

• Yale was slotted to finish fifth behind its 66 points, while Cornell (37 points) and Brown (35 points) were separated by two points for sixth and seventh places. Dartmouth rounded out the eight-team poll with its 25 points.

TURN 'EM!
• Cornell turned four double plays in last weekend's three-game series at Georgia Tech, three of which came in the Big Red's victory last Sunday.

• The trio of twin-killings was the first time Cornell had recorded at least three double plays in a game since April 21, 2022, against Princeton.

• Cornell's 1.33 double plays per game ranks as the 10th-best average in Division I baseball entering this weekend, and is second-best by an Ivy League program behind Princeton (1.67), who is tied with Merrimack for the nation's lead.

NOTHING EXTRA, PLEASE
• Cornell has not gone to extra innings in any of its last 48 games, dating back to a 10-9 walk-off victory over Central New York rival Binghamton on April 20, 2022, at the program's former on-campus home, Hoy Field.

• The Big Red was one of seven NCAA Division I programs to not have any of its games go to extra innings last season (Alabama A&M, East Tennessee State, Georgia Southern, Kansas State, and Saint Peter's), and was one of two Ivy League programs (Princeton) to accomplish the rare feat.

• Last year, the only game Cornell played in that did not end in nine innings was in the nightcap of an April 22 doubleheader when the Big Red fell to Princeton, 11-0, in seven innings as play was halted due to rain.

• Excluding the 2020 season, which was shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2023 campaign was Cornell's first without any contests needing extra innings since 1997.

FAMILY MATTERS
• Freshman infielder Kevin Hager and freshman right-handed pitcher Graham Biben are both the younger brothers of former Cornell baseball alumni.

• Hager's older brother, Frank, was a member of the Cornell baseball team from 2009-12 before returning to his alma mater in 2016, where he served as a volunteer assistant coach for Dan Pepicelli in his first year at the helm of the Cornell baseball program. Hager was elevated to assistant coach the following year and remained with the program until the 2022 campaign.

• Biben's older brother, August, graduated from Cornell last spring and was a member of the Big Red program from 2019-23.