The Columbia softball team will host the Yale Bulldogs for a three-game Ivy League series this weekend, with a doubleheader scheduled for Saturday and a single game on Sunday. All games will be streamed on ESPN+, and live stats will be available through Statbroadcast.com.
This series is important as both teams look to improve their standings within the Ivy League. Columbia enters the matchup with a 13-16 overall record and a 5-4 mark in league play, while Yale holds an 11-23 overall record and is 3-9 in conference games.
Saturday’s games will feature Columbia’s annual Pride Day, marking the team’s fourth annual Pride Game celebrating LGBTQ+ communities at the university and beyond. Fans attending can receive pride bracelets while supplies last.
Columbia comes into the series after sweeping Dartmouth on the road, highlighted by an 8-0 win in six innings. Pitcher Mads Lawson delivered a two-hit complete game shutout during that victory. Over the Dartmouth series, Columbia scored 30 runs on 36 hits, including seven home runs from several players such as Savanna Messner, who now ranks tied for fifth all-time in program history for career home runs. Fellow senior Sarah Mikami also remains among Columbia’s top ten home run hitters.
Lawson was named Ivy League Pitcher of the Week and Co-Rookie of the Week following her performance against Dartmouth, becoming only the third Lion pitcher to earn Pitcher of the Week honors in fifteen years. The Lions’ pitching staff currently has an earned run average (ERA) of 4.02—third-best in their league—and opponents are batting .276 against them.
Yale arrives having recently snapped a losing streak with a win over Fairfield but has struggled away from home this season. Senior infielder Libby Peoples leads Yale offensively with a .402 batting average while senior Emma Tayler leads their pitching staff with five wins across more than eighty innings pitched.
The teams have met fifty-three times previously; Yale holds a slight edge historically but Columbia took two out of three games when they last faced off.
