Dartmouth Softball Extends Win Streak with Victories over Yale

Saturday, April 21

Hanover, N.H.

1:00 PM

Dartmouth College

YALE

Dartmouth Softball Extends Win Streak with Victories over Yale

4/21/2007 12:00:00 AM | Softball

By: Dartmouth

Game 1 Boxscore

Game 2 Boxscore

HANOVER, N.H. ?? The Dartmouth softball team is on a six-game win streak after defeating Yale today in an Ivy League doubleheader. The Big Green's Stephanie Trudeau (Spokane, Wash.) pitched a one-hitter in the opener to lead Dartmouth to a 2-0 victory. In the nightcap, back-to-back homeruns in the bottom of the fifth carried the Big Green to a 3-2 win.

The victories give Dartmouth a 12-21 overall record, 8-6 in the Ivy League while Yale falls to 18-16, 3-11.

The first game of the day was a pitcher's duel as Trudeau and Yale starter Rebecca Wojciak kept runs off the scoreboard and runners off the bases through the first three innings. Yale broke through with the first hit of the day in the top of the fourth but the Bulldogs could not bring the runner across.

Dartmouth capitalized in its bottom half of the inning when Leigha Clarkson (Perris, Calif.) blasted a two-out double to score Nikki Yee (Martinez, Calif.) and Kelly Fry (Marietta, Ga.).

Trudeau went the complete game with five strikeouts while walking just two. Yee, Clarkson and Kirsten Costello (Windsor, N.Y.) all recorded hits for the Big Green.

In the nightcap the Bulldogs jumped on the board first with a run in the opening inning. Dartmouth responded in the bottom of the second when Katie Chifcian (Fullerton, Calif.) scored on a sacrifice fly by Christy Autin (Harwood Heights, Ill.).

Yale took the lead again in the top of the fourth going up, 2-1. But back-to-back homeruns by Fry and Alyssa Parker (Spring Valley, Calif.) recaptured the lead for the Big Green as Dartmouth held on for the 3-2 win. With her homerun Fry became Dartmouth's all-time homerun leader with 14.

Angela Megaw got the win in the circle for Dartmouth. The junior went 6.1 innings, allowing one earned run while striking out three. Trudeau came on in relief in the top of the seventh, striking out the next two batters to pick up her first career save.

Yee and Fry both went 2-for-4 while Parker, Clarkson and Costello all had hits.

Dartmouth and Yale will meet again tomorrow in a doubleheader at Sachem Field starting at noon.