Baseball Heads to Princeton for Three-Game Weekend Series

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Coming off an eight-game homestand, the Brown baseball team will hit the road for four straight games, starting this weekend with a three-game series at Princeton.

GAME COVERAGE
Saturday (Game 1) – ESPN+ | Live Stats
Saturday (Game 2) – ESPN+ | Live Stats
Sunday – ESPN+ | Live Stats

SCOUTING BROWN (7-21, 3-9 Ivy)

Brown is coming off a 3-5 homestand, which included an Ivy series win by taking the final two games against Dartmouth last weekend. The Bears dropped a midweek home clash with URI 16-6 on Wednesday.
Offensively, the Bears have seen production from freshman Christian Butera (.345) and junior Mika Petersen (.343), who both rank among the league leaders in batting average.
Butera ranks second in the Ivy League with a .583 slugging percentage.
Junior Christian Keel is coming off a 9.0 inning complete game effort last Friday against Dartmouth, throwing a career-high 104 pitches and tying his career-high with six strikeouts in a 4-1 win.
Logan Meusy had a pinch-hit walk off double against Dartmouth last Saturday and scored two runs on Wednesday against URI.

SCOUTING PRINCETON (9-24, 5-6 Ivy)

Princeton enters this weekend in fourth place in the Ivy League standings, one game clear of both Cornell and Dartmouth.
Last weekend, the Tigers split two games at Harvard (a 1-0 win, and a 3-2 loss) before the third game was rained out.
They won a 20-8 mid-week game on Wednesday at Rider, seeing Caden Shapiro go 3-for-6 with a pair of home runs and four RBIs.
The 20 runs for Princeton were their most in a game since 2022.
Princeton enters the weekend batting .204 as a team, last in the Ivy League with Brown the next closest at .235.
Jake Coonin leads the Tigers with six home runs and is third with 16 RBIs.
Jake Bold leads the team with a .257 average, 18 RBIs, 30 walks and a .432 on-base percentage.
Andrew D'Alessio holds a 5.65 ERA in a team-leading 43.0 innings this season across eight starts.
Justin Kim has been the team's top reliever, holding a 1.55 ERA across a team-high 14 relief appearances.
Jacob Faulkner is fourth in the league among eligible arms with a 3.67 ERA.

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