ITHACA, N.Y. — After throwing the baseball team's first no-hitter in nearly 32 years, sophomore Connor Kaufmann has been named the Ivy League Pitcher of the Week.
 
Kaufmann becomes the first Big Red athlete to win the award since Corey Pappel shared the honor with Princeton's David Hale on April 28, 2009. The sophomore righty threw 80 pitches to complete a no-hitter in a 2-0 seven-inning victory over Dartmouth on Sunday. It was the first no-hitter for the Big Red since Kerry Brooks, Rob Wilson and Doug Petillo combined to no-hit Rochester on April 5, 1989 in another seven-inning affair. The last solo no-hitter for Cornell was April 8, 1979, when Greg Myers worked five innings in a 1-0 victory over Canisius. To find the last Big Red solo no-hitter of at least seven innings, you would have to go back to Larry Rafalski's nine-inning blanking of Hartwick on April 25, 1968.
 
Kaufmann worked around two walks in the first two innings, but little became of the runners — the first was doubled off on a flyout to right, then Kaufmann picked off the second in the second inning. He then retired the next 16 batters consecutively, facing the minimum 21 batters on the day while striking out four. No Dartmouth baserunner advanced past first base.
 
The victory was one of three on the weekend for the Big Red, which keeps pace with the rest of the Lou Gehrig Division as Penn, Princeton and Columbia also went 3-1 during the league's opening weekend. Cornell, which is 16-5-1 overall, shifts back to non-league play with a Wednesday doubleheader at Canisius before a weekend road trip to Brown and Yale.