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Baseball Risks Perfect Ivy Mark

Both hurlers won their last starts, the Princeton doubleheader, with dominating performances. Crockett leads the staff with 35 strikeouts in 30 innings, while Nyweide has 27 punch-outs in 28.2 innings of work.

Right-handed hurler Saty (1-1) will start game one on Sunday against Columbia. Saty pitched two perfect innings in relief during the Holy Cross game.

The Crimson has not yet determined who will take the mound for the nightcap, but the probable starter is junior righty Barry Wahlberg (1-2), who has enjoyed particular success in relief so far this season.

Meanwhile, Penn has a 7-19 record coming into play, having defeated La Salle in a 13-11 hitfest yesterday. The Quakers sit at the bottom of the Lou Gehrig division with a 2-6 Ivy record.

Penn will start senior righty Mike Mattern (1-0) in the first game before calling upon all-Ivy junior Andrew McCreery (0-4) for the second contest. Last year, McCreery led the Quakers to a 14-2 victory over Harvard. The righty allowed just five hits in his dominating complete-game performance.

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In contrast to Penn’s disappointing start, Columbia (13-13, 3-1 Ivy) is tied with Princeton for first the Lou Gehrig division.

The Lions dropped their most recent game, against St. John’s on Wednesday. Columbia lost a 5-2 lead in the bottom of the eighth, when two costly errors led to six runs.

The Crimson split the doubleheader against Columbia last season. The Lions will first travel to Dartmouth for a doubleheader on Saturday before arriving in Cambridge.

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