With the wins ever Columbia, Yale receives an automatic bid to the 48-team NCAA baseball tournament.

Harvard was the only Ivy League team this year to split its season series with Yale.

Brown and Dartmouth each lost three of four, while Columbia, Cornell, Princeton and Penn were all swept by the Bulldogs.

The Ivy Championship adds another type of crown in career of first year Yale Head Coach John Stuper.

Stuper was a pitcher on the 1982 St. Louis Cardinals World Series championship team.

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Yankee Doodle Dandy: Nick Delvecchio '92 is making a big hit, literally, in the New York Yankee organization this year.

Playing for the Class-A Greensboro Hornets, Delvecchio is first among Yankee minor league players in homers (seven) and RBIs (21) and second in batting average (.373) through his first 22 games.

Delvecchio's hot start earned him a two-page article in the May 18 issue of Yankees Magazine.

Steve Schlosser's piece "From Harvard Yard Comes Brains, Brawn and Some Bash," says that the Yankees are very impressed with his power, but that he needs to improve on his fielding.

"The biggest differences I have found between pro ball and college ball is that in the pros there are a lot more and better off-speed and breaking pitches and every night in pro ball you face good pitching," Delvecchio says in the article.

Last year at Harvard, Delvecchio batted 370.

His 44 hits included 10 doubles, three triples and eight homes, and he drove in 38 runs.

He was named to the EIBL All-Stars Second Team at the designated hitter position when he played for the Crimson.