Cornell (1-5) vs. Georgetown (6-6)
When	March 10
Where	Tysons, Va. // Capital One Park
Watch	Sunday
Radio	None
Live Stats	Sunday (Game One) | Sunday (Game Two)
Notes	Cornell | Georgetown

 

Probable Starting Pitchers
Day	Cornell		Opponent
Sun. 11 a.m. ET	RHP Carson Mayfield (0-1, 5.40 ERA)		LHP Andrew Williams (1-0, 1.69)
Sun. 2 p.m. ET	LHP William Jaun (1-1, 7.27 ERA)		LHP Marcello Mastroianni (1-0, 5.27)

ITHACA, N.Y. — The Cornell baseball team continues its 11-game season-opening road trip this weekend when it travels to the DMV to face Georgetown at Capital One Park in Tysons, Va.

Due to an unfavorable weather forecast for Saturday, the initial doubleheader has been canceled. The two teams will now play a twin bill on Sunday that will begin at 11 a.m. MuscoVision will carry both games, which requires a 1-, 3-, 7-, or 30-day paid subscription.

WELCOME (BACK) TO THE COMMONWEALTH!
This weekend is the second of three consecutive weekends Cornell will play inside the Commonwealth of Virginia. Last weekend, Cornell was swept by James Madison in a three-game series in Harrisonburg. The Big Red fell 5-1 in the opener before plating five runs apiece in the final two contests, 7-5 and 8-5.

Following Sunday's games, the Big Red will return to Virginia next weekend for the final time on the season when it squares off against Richmond at Pitt Field in a three-game series from March 15-17.

Cornell is playing games in Virginia for the fifth consecutive season it has played, having faced VCU in 2019, Niagara in a three-game series in Colonial Heights, Va., in the COVID-shortened 2020 campaign, Virginia and Richmond in 2022, and James Madison, VCU, and George Mason last season.

Virginia is the most represented state on Cornell's roster this season (seven). 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 call the Old Dominion home.

LOOKING TO EXTEND THEIR STREAKS
Senior catcher Nathan Waugh and junior outfielder Jakobi Davis enter this weekend riding 10-game on-base streaks dating back to last season. Fellow junior outfielder John Quinlan is one game shy of joining Waugh and Davis in reaching base safely in 10 consecutive contests.

During his 10-game on-base streak, Waugh has also registered at least one hit, making him the first Big Red player with a 10-game hit streak since fellow catcher Will Simoneit registered at least one base hit in his final 11 games in a Cornell uniform during the 2019 season.

Should Waugh have a hit in both games on Sunday, he will have Cornell's longest hit streak since former Big Red infielder Tommy Wagner collected base knocks over a 13-game stretch from April 5-23, where he registered a .490 average (24-of-49). Wagner also opened the 2017 season with hits in his first 12 appearances from March 4-26, hitting for a .274 clip (14-of-51).

WHEN IT RUNS, IT POURS
Cornell has shown a knack for scoring runs in bundles this season, as 21 of its 30 runs have come in multi-run innings (70.0 percent of its run production).

Of the Big Red's 203 runs scored since the beginning of last season, 150 have come in innings that have featured at least two runs crossing home plate (73.9 percent of run production).

Since the beginning of the 2022 season, Cornell has had at least one multi-run inning in 59 of its 77 games (76.6 percent). At one point, Cornell scored at least two runs in 18 consecutive games from April 24, 2022 (final eight games of season) to March 18, 2023 (first 10 games of season).

Cornell has had six multi-run innings through its first two weekends of play, including one two-run inning, a pair of three-run innings, two four-run frames, and a season-high five runs that were plated in the top of the sixth of last Saturday's 8-5 loss to James Madison.

IVY LEAGUE PRESEASON POLL
The Ivy League preseason poll was announced on 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 league with 25 points.

GOING FOR THREE!
Juniors Max Jensen and Jakobi Davis registered triples in Cornell's last two games, marking the Big Red's first time logging triples in consecutive games since March 25 and 26, 2022, against Harvard at the Big Red's former on-campus home, Hoy Field.

Should Cornell register a triple in its next contest, the Big Red will have its first three-game streak with a triple since 2012, when it posted four triples over a three-game span from March 31 to April 2 against Harvard (March 31) and Dartmouth (April 1-2).

The Big Red enters this weekend tied for 50th in the nation in triples per game (0.33) and only trails Dartmouth (0.60) for the best average among Ivy League programs.

NOTHING EXTRA, PLEASE
Cornell has not played an extra-inning contest in any of its last 51 games, dating back to a 10-9 walk-off victory against Central New York rival Binghamton on April 20, 2022, at Hoy Field.

Saint Peter's is the only Division I program to have its last extra-inning contest later than the Big Red. The Peacocks have not played extra innings since May 8, 2021, when they played a pair of eight-inning contests against Monmouth on both ends of a scheduled seven-inning doubleheader.

Last season, Cornell was one of seven NCAA Division I programs not to play an extra-inning game, joined by Alabama A&M, East Tennessee State, Georgia Southern, Kansas State, Princeton, and Saint Peter's.

Cornell's lone contest last year that did not end in nine innings was the nightcap of an April 22 doubleheader against Princeton, 11-0, which was halted after seven innings due to rain.

Excluding the COVID-shortened 2020 season, last year's campaign was Cornell's first without any contests going to extra innings since 1997.

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

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.

AGAINST THE BIG EAST
Cornell has a 16-40-2 record against the eight current members of the Big East. The Big Red's last win over an active member of the Big East came against St. John's in the first game of a best-of-three series against the then-called Redmen in Princeton, N.J., at the ECAC Tournament on May 20, 1978. St. John's avenged the loss by posting consecutive victories the following day over Cornell.

SCOUTING GEORGETOWN
Georgetown, who enters this weekend's slate with a 6-6 overall record, is coming off an 11-9 loss to top-ranked Wake Forest on Tuesday. The Hoyas' game against No. 12-ranked Duke, initially scheduled for Wednesday, was postponed.

Former Cornell infielder Joe Hollerbach homered for the Hoyas in the setback, going 1-for-4 with his three-run blast. Keith Savoy Jr. had the lone multi-hit game for Georgetown, going 2-for-2 with two RBI as a defensive replacement.

In the loss, Georgetown had six batters hit by a pitch, including Derek Smith, who was plunked twice in the contest.

Before Tuesday's loss to the Demon Deacons, Georgetown swept a three-game set against Fairleigh Dickinson in its home-opening series last weekend at Capital One Park. The Hoyas posted victories of 12-9, 7-2, and 9-2 over the Knights.

FAMILIAR FACE
Georgetown graduate student Joe Hollerbach will be squaring off against his former team, as Hollerbach was a member of the Cornell baseball program from 2020-23.

During his time on East Hill, Hollerbach posted a .265 batting average with 12 doubles, three triples, eight home runs, and 37 RBI. Hollerbach remains the last Cornell player to hit for the cycle, accomplishing the feat in an 11-7 victory against Coppin State on March 5, 2022.

131 YEARS, 327 MILES, 26 MEETINGS
Cornell and Georgetown have previously played 26 times heading into this weekend but have only faced each other twice since the Big Red's last victory, 3-1, on April 3, 1949, at Georgetown Field. The last two meetings have come in the previous seven years in Bethesda, Md., on April 4, 2017, and in College Park, Md., on March 13, 2022.

A victory this weekend would be the Big Red's first over the Hoyas since the April 3, 1949 contest, where senior left-handed pitcher Ken Battles tossed a five-hit complete game while striking out seven Hoyas. Sophomore shortstop Robert 'Rip' Haley had a two-RBI single in the seventh to increase Cornell's lead after senior catcher George Tesnow drove in sophomore left fielder Ed Winnick in the second inning to open the scoring. Georgetown's Al Naples thwarted Battles' shutout bid with a ninth-inning RBI triple. Naples recorded three of the Hoyas' five hits on the day.

In the most recent meeting between the two programs on March 13, 2022, Cornell used a five-run ninth inning to take an 8-7 lead, but Georgetown's Ethan Stern hit a leadoff home run in the bottom of the ninth before Evan Blum walked the game off with a 10th-inning RBI single to solidify a 9-8 Hoyas victory at Bob "Turtle" Smith Stadium in College Park, Md.