Lions score postseason baseball awards from Ivy League
A vote from the Ivy League coaches resulted in several postseason awards for Columbia baseball, most notably, Columbia junior outfielder Dario Pizzano receiving Player of the Year.
According to a statement from the Ivy League:
Pizzano was also a unanimous first-team All-Ivy selection at first base. He capped off an impressive season that saw the junior bat .360 (54-of-150) with 37 runs, 16 doubles, four home runs and 36 RBI. He slugged .547, walked 31 times and recorded an on-base percentage of .471. Pizzano tied for the team lead in batting average, hits, at bats, runs and home runs and led Columbia in doubles and RBI. Pizzano leads the League in on-base percentage and ranks tied for first in runs, second in walks, tied for second in hits, third in RBI and doubles, tied for third in batting average and fifth in slugging percentage.
Seniors Pat Lowery, Jon Eisen, and Dario Pizzano received first-team All-Ivy honors, junior Alex Black received second-team All-Ivy honors, and juniors Stefan Olson and Nick Ferraresi received honorable mention All-Ivy honors.
Unfortunately Columbia did not win the award for best YouTube video of the year, with that special honor going to Harvard for their rendition of “Call Me Maybe” (Just kidding: I made that award up. But, still they deserved it.).
For a full overview of the season, take a look at our Year in Review of this baseball season.
Congrats and shout out to Dario for this recognition. Nice to think that next year we will have the Ivy League player of the year still on the team.
WHO IS dqueezy !?!?!?!??!!
i would say they do I played chrcuh league softball during high school and I put that down on my college application for the University of Pennsylvania. It shows that you have a dynamic student background and shows that you are not just a bookworm. I would say that it does show some time management, and putting that in the application certainly won’t hurt you
The two team weren’t playing each other, but on August 4, 1982 Joel Youngblood was tredad from the Mets to the Expos and played with both teams in the same day. Youngblood became the third player to play for two teams in a day. He is the only player to get hits for two teams in a day and to play in two different cities in the same day. Incidentally, both hits were against future Hall of Fame pitchers Fergie Jenkins and Steve Carlton.