The Home Run

Has there ever been a baseball stadium that opened with back-to-back home runs by the other team? 

There has been now. Princeton was a very rude guest in Cornell's brand-new Booth Field. About the only pitch that was safe from the Tigers was the one Mr. Booth threw out to open the new facility. 

Matt Scannell and Eric Marasheski got the party started with blasts in the first two at-bats in the new stadium. By the end of the weekend, Princeton had hit 11 in all, running their season total to a program-record 49. Kyle Vinci pushed his single-season record total to 16, and he had himself a 14-RBI weekend.

The Tigers won all three games against Cornell, running their Ivy record to 10-5 with three games left at Yale and home against Brown. The team is very much in the hunt for a spot in the first four-team Ivy tournament, not to mention winning the league title and grabbing the host spot that goes along with that.

The theme of the weekend was the home run, both the literal and figurative type. 

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