Lions righty Harrison Egly slammed the door on the Harvard offense in his two-and-a-third innings to pick up the win. Joe Falcone’s four-bagger in the eighth culminated a four-hit, three-RBI day for the Lions cleanup hitter.

“Columbia is a great program,” McGuiggan said. “They’re well-coached and they’ve got a lot of disciplined hitters on their team and pitchers that execute really well. Obviously we would have wanted to win those games, but, at the same time, we know that we played the two-time defending Ivy League champion extremely well.”

COLUMBIA 5, HARVARD 4 (F/7)

Columbia pinch-hitter John Kinne delivered the game-winning hit in the first game of Sunday’s doubleheader, driving in third baseman David Vandercook to lead Columbia to its first win of its sweep of Harvard. The junior ripped a single into leftfield with two outs in the seventh to give the Lions the victory.

Harvard was able to chip away at a 4-2 Lions lead with runs in the sixth and seventh innings but walks to Columbia's Vandercook and Randell Kanemaru by Harvard junior Sean O’Neill set the table for Kinne’s heroics.

Sophomore lefty Nick Gruener got the start for the Crimson, surrendering four earned runs to a Columbia offense that finished the game with 12 hits. McGuiggan paced the Harvard offense, picking up three hits including two doubles and driving in a run. 

—Staff writer Stephen J. Gleason can be reached at sgleason@college.harvard.edu.