| Probable Starting Pitchers |
| Day |
Cornell |
Brown |
| Sat. 11:30 a.m. ET |
LHP Noah Keller (1-4, 5.80 ERA) |
RHP Paxton Meyers (3-4, 4.97 ERA) |
| Sat. 2:30 p.m. ET |
LHP Huxley Holcombe (2-2, 7.64 ERA) |
RHP Jack Seppings (3-6, 7.08 ERA) |
| Sun. 12:00 p.m. ET |
RHP Ethan Hamill (2-3, 6.08 ERA) |
RHP Santhosh Gottam (2-7, 7.58 ERA) |
ITHACA, N.Y. — Seeking to clinch its first postseason berth since 2012, the Cornell baseball team wraps up its 2024 regular-season slate this weekend when it travels to Providence, R.I., for a three-game series against Brown.
SCENARIO CENTRAL
• Cornell can clinch a spot in this year's Ivy League Baseball Tournament with three different scenarios: Big Red wins at least two games
OR Cornell wins once and Princeton loses two-plus games to league-leading Columbia
OR Dartmouth sweeps Penn.
LAST TIME OUT
• The Big Red is coming off a 13-7 victory over Binghamton on Wednesday in Vestal, N.Y., sweeping the season series from the Bearcats for the first time since 2017.
• Cornell's first five hitters in its lineup collectively went 10-for-21 (.476), combining for three doubles, a triple, and three home runs. Junior infielder
Max Jensen went 2-for-4 with a home run and drove in a team-leading four RBI. Junior outfielder
John Quinlan (double, triple) and senior catcher
Nathan Waugh (two doubles, home run) registered multiple extra-base hits.
• Senior right-handed pitcher
Story Kimura earned his second victory of the year — both of which coming against Binghamton — after pitching 1.2 scoreless innings of relief.
TWO AWAY FROM 100
•
Dan Pepicelli, the Ted Thoren Head Coach of Cornell Baseball, is currently two wins shy of becoming the fourth head coach in Cornell baseball history to reach the century mark in victories.
• Ted Thoren owns the program record for head coaching victories, collecting 515 triumphs during his 29-year tenure at the helm of the Big Red baseball program from 1962-90.
Tom Ford, the Big Red's current associate head coach, has the second-most wins of any Cornell skipper, logging 263 wins during his 18-year tenure as head coach from 1991-08. Bill Walkenbach, Pepicelli's predecessor, collected 130 wins during his stint on East Hill from 2009-15.
MOST HEAD COACHING WINS AT CORNELL
Program History
515, Ted Thoren (1962-90)
263, Tom Ford (1991-08)
130, Bill Walkenbach (2009-15)
98, Dan Pepicelli (2016-Present)
87, Paul Eckley (1925-36)
84, Royner Greene (1949-56)
DIGGING THE LONG BALL
• Cornell has hit 44 home runs this season, marking the most by the Big Red in a single season in the program's 153-year history, besting the previous mark of 38 (2009).
• Freshman catcher
Mark Quatrani registered the record-breaking blast with a leadoff home run in the sixth inning of Cornell's 14-11 setback in the opening game of last Saturday's twin bill with Columbia.
• Having a flair for the dramatic, Cornell has hit seven grand slams, the most in a season on record in program history. The seven grand slams matches the program's combined output over the previous nine years.
MOST HOME RUNS IN SINGLE SEASON
Cornell Program History
44, 2024
38, 2009
35, 1999
34, 2001
33, 2022
30, 1995
30, 2010
30, 2023
Q'S PROVIDING THE A'S
• Junior outfielder
John Quinlan and freshman catcher
Mark Quatrani have been two of Cornell's most reliable hitters since the beginning of Ivy League play.
• Quinlan is hitting an Ivy League-leading .434 (36-of-83) against Ancient Eight opposition this season, ahead of Penn's Wyatt Henseler by three points (.431) for the lead for the Blair Bat, awarded to the Ivy League's top hitter in conference games.
TOP BATTING AVERAGES IN IVY LEAGUE PLAY
This Season
.434 (36-for-83), John Quinlan, Cornell
.429 (30-for-70), Wyatt Henseler, Penn
.405 (32-for-79), Sam Miller, Columbia
.403 (27-for-67), Ben Rounds, Harvard
.382 (26-for-68), Nick DiPietrantonio, Princeton
• No Cornell player has earned the Blair Bat since Chip DeLorenzo in 1991, when he registered a .478 average against EIBL opponents (22-for-46). If Quinlan wins the Blair Bat, he would be the fourth Cornell player to earn the award since it was first awarded in 1971, joining Pete Watzka (1971), John DeMayo (1982), and DeLorenzo.
CORNELL'S BLAIR BAT WINNERS
Since 1971
.419 (13-for-31), Pete Watzka (1971)
.453 (29-for-64), John DeMayo (1982)
.478 (22-for-46), Chip DeLorenzo (1991)
• Quinlan's 36 hits are the most in conference play by a Big Red player in program history and is tied for the ninth-most in EIBL / Ivy League history. With four hits this weekend against Brown, he would become the second player in EIBL / Ivy League history with 40-plus hits in conference games, joining former Dartmouth infielder Tyler Cox (45 in 2022).
MOST HITS BY PLAYER IN CONFERENCE PLAY
EIBL / Ivy League History
45, Tyler Cox, Dartmouth (2022)
39, Matt Kutler, Brown (2005)
38, Tom Grandieri, Penn (2010)
38, Peter Matt, Penn (2019)
37, Dan Thompson, Yale (1995)
37, Joe Lomuscio, Brown (2019)
37, Joe Engel, Columbia (2019)
37, Jake Suddleson, Harvard (2019)
36, Ed Lucas, Dartmouth (2004)
36, Tim Graul, Penn (2017)
36, Eduardo Malinowski, Penn (2018)
36, Mika Petersen, Brown (2023)
36, John Quinlan, Cornell (2024)
• Quatrani has seven home runs in Ivy League contests, the most by a Big Red player in conference play in program history, besting six-home run ouputs produced by Raul Gomez (2001), Brian Kaufman (2006), and
Sam Kaplan (2022).
MOST HOME RUNS IN CONFERENCE PLAY
Cornell Program History (Since 1930)
7, Mark Quatrani (2024)
6, Raul Gomez (2001)
6, Brian Kaufman (2006)
6, Sam Kaplan (2022)
• Quatrani's seven Ivy League home runs are tied with Columbia's Sam Miller for the second-most home runs in conference contests this season, trailing Henseler who paces the Ivy League with 10 home runs, tied with Columbia's Chandler Bengtson (10 in 2019) and Princeton's Kyle Vinci (10 in 2023) for the most home runs by a player in Ivy League play in a season.
MOST HOME RUNS IN IVY LEAGUE PLAY
This Season
10, Wyatt Henseler, Penn
7, Sam Miller, Columbia
7, Mark Quatrani, Cornell
6, Skye Selinsky, Columbia
• Paired with his home runs, Quatrani's 26 RBI are tied with Columbia's Sam Miller and Griffin Palfrey for the Ivy League lead in RBI. The 26 ribbies by Quatrani are tied with John DeMayo for the second-most by a Cornell player in conference games in a single season. Brian Kaufman (29 in 2006) assumes the record, ranking sixth in EIBL / Ivy League history.
MOST RBI IN IVY LEAGUE PLAY
This Season
26, Sam Miller (Columbia)
26, Griffin Palfrey (Columbia)
26, Mark Quatrani (Cornell)
24, Skye Selinsky (Columbia)
22, Eric Jeon (Columbia)
21, Max Jensen (Cornell)
21, Wyatt Henseler (Penn)
NOT FUN FOR LEFTIES
• Despite having a much smaller sample size, left-handed hitters have had a tough time figuring out sophomore left-handed pitcher
Noah Keller this season. Left-handed hitters are batting just .194 (6-for-31) with a .479 OPS (.286 on-base percentage and .194 slugging percentage) off the Big Red southpaw compared to a .353 clip (42-of-119) with an .988 OPS (.458 on-base percentage and .529 slugging percentage) produced by righties ... all six hits allowed by Keller to left-handed hitters have gone for singles.
• Freshman left-handed pitcher
Huxley Holcombe has also had left-handed hitters' numbers this season, allowing just seven hits in 30 at-bats (.233), compared to the .313 clip (31-for-99) that right-handers have off the first-year southpaw hurler.
QUINLAN'S HOT BAT
• Junior outfielder
John Quinlan enters this weekend's series with a 1.73 hits per game average, ranking as the sixth-highest average among Division I hitters who have played in at least 75 percent of their team's games.
BEST HITS PER GAME AVERAGES
This Season
1.80, Joseph Kuroda-Grauer, Rutgers
1.77, Charlie Condon, Georgia
1.77, Mason Lytle, UTSA
1.74, Clayton Gray, Austin Peay
1.74, Sammy Sass, Wright State
1.73, John Quinlan, Cornell
1.73, Ben Miller, Duke
1.72, JT Marr, Penn State
• Rutgers' Joshua Kuroda-Grauer leads the nation with his 1.80 hits-per-game average, three points ahead of Georgia phenom Charlie Condon. The others in front of Quinlan include UTSA's Mason Lytle (1.77), Austin Peay's Clayton Gray (1.74), and Wright State's Sammy Sass (1.74).
• Harvard's Ben Rounds has the second-highest hits per game average by an Ivy League player (1.61), which ranks 28th nationally.
TOUGH TO SET DOWN
• Junior infielder
Max Jensen enters this weekend ranked as the 25th-toughest batter to strikeout in Division I baseball, averaging a strikeout every 11.8 at-bats.
• Among Ivy League hitters, Jensen's average is 2.2 points better than Yale's Alec Atkinson (14 SO in 134 at-bats — 9.8 percent), who ranks 80th nationally. Jensen's classmate, junior outfielder
John Quinlan, has been retired on strikes only 13 times in his 113 at-bats, leading to an 8.7 strikeout-to-at-bat average, ranking 125th among Division I hitters with at least 2.5 ABs per game and appeared in at least 75 percent of games.
TOUGHEST TO STRIKE OUT
Ivy League Leaders
11.8, Max Jensen, Cornell
9.6, Alec Atkinson, Yale
8.7, John Quinlan, Cornell
8.3, Nathan Cmeyla, Dartmouth
LOOKING TO EXTEND THE STREAKS
• Senior catcher
Nathan Waugh enters this weekend's series with Brown riding a 35-game on-base streak, the longest by a Big Red player since Nathan Ford concluded his Big Red career with a 42-game streak over the 2008 (last two games) and 2009 (40 games).
• During his on-base streak, which dates back to last season, Waugh is slashing .290/.418/.534 with eight doubles, eight home runs, 34 RBI, and 36 runs scored.
• Junior infielder
Max Jensen owns an 11-game hit streak entering this weekend, marking the fourth Big Red player to register hits in at least 10 consecutive games played this season, joining Waugh (19 games),
Caden Wildman (11 games), and
Mark Quatrani (10 games).
CORNELL'S LONGEST HIT STREAKS
This Season
19 games, Nathan Waugh (2023-24)
11 games, Max Jensen (ACTIVE)
11 games, Caden Wildman
10 games, Mark Quatrani
SCOUTING BROWN
• Brown enters this weekend with a 9-27 overall record and a 4-14 mark in Ivy League play. The Bears have dropped its last three contests and been on the wrong end of 11 of the last 12 decisions.
• On Tuesday, the Bears fell to Holy Cross, 6-5, in their final non-conference game of the 2024 season. Holy Cross entered the ninth inning trailing by one run, tying the game on a bases-loaded hit by pitch before registering a walk-off RBI single up the middle to take the victory. Mark Henshon, Quinn Rooks, and Charles Crawford all hit solo home runs in the setback for Brown.
• Nathan Brasher (.321/.421/.403) and DJ Dillehay (.303/.370/.483) are the lone Bears with batting averages north of .300. Gunner Boree (.275/.415/.471) has a team-leading .886 OPS, and is tied with Dillehay and Crawford for the lead in home runs with four. Dillehay has driven in 27 RBI, one of two Brown players with 20-plus RBI (Mika Petersen — 23).
• Paxton Meyers (3-4, 4.97 ERA) has started in all 10 of his appearances, which includes one complete game. Meyers, who owns the team's best ERA, has also held opponents to a .265 batting average this season, yielding 61 hits against in 58 innings of work. Jack Seppings (3-6, 7.08 ERA) and Santhosh Gottam (2-7, 7.58 ERA) have started 12 and 10 games, respectively.
• The Bears' bullpen has revolved around seven players, all of which have registered at least nine appearances on the season. Jacob Young (0-4, 5.56 ERA) has a team-leading three saves across 15 outings, limiting opponents to a .213 batting average. Ryan Oshinskie (0-0, 7.56 ERA) has two saves and Carter Rasmussen (0-2, 12.18 ERA) also has one save to his credit.
131 YEARS, 325 MILES, 135 MEETINGS
• Cornell and Brown have met 135 times prior to this weekend's three-game series. The Bears own the series lead, 71-62-2, thanks to winning 14 of the last 17 contests, which includes coming out victorious in the previous five games.
• The Big Red's last win over Brown came in a 3-0 triumph in the opening game of a doubleheader on May 7, 2022, where former right-handed pitcher Luke Yacinich tossed a six-hit complete game shutout, the Big Red's last time shutting out an opponent.
• Entering this weekend, Cornell has not won a series against Brown since taking two of three games in 2018, also coming in Providence, R.I.
• Should Cornell sweep this weekend's series, it would be the first time Cornell has swept Brown in a season since taking both games of a doubleheader on April 6, 2014, in Providence.
