Dartmouth Softball Swept by Cornell

Saturday, April 7

Providence, R.I. (New location)

12:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Cornell

4/7/2007 12:00:00 AM | Softball

By: Dartmouth

Game 1 Boxscore
Game 2 Boxscore

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Dartmouth softball team dropped a doubleheader to Cornell today at Brown University's softball field. The game was moved to Brown due to inclement weather in Ithaca. The Big Red won the first game easily, 7-2 and were victorious in the nightcap, 9-0 in five innings.

In the opening frame Kelly Fry (Marietta, Ga.) gave the Big Green its first hit of the day with an infield single before Alyssa Parker (Spring Valley, Texas) moved her to second on a single through the left side. But the Big Green would be unable to bring its runners around, keeping the game scoreless after two innings of play.

The Big Red blasted its first hit in the second when Meg Risica knocked a double to center field but she would remain at third as Dartmouth pitcher Stephanie Trudeau (Spokane, Wash.) got a groundout and strikeout to end the inning.

Christy Autin (Harwood Heights, Il.) began the third for the Big Green with a triple through the right side. Katie Chifican (Fullerton, Calif.) earned a walk and then stole second to put runners at second and third for Ashley Gleason (Costa Mesa, Calif.) who hit a sacrifice fly to right field bringing Autin in, giving Dartmouth the 1-0 lead.

Cornell evened things up with a leadoff homerun to center field by Lauren Battaglia in the bottom half of the third. A single up the middle set up another run for the Big Red as Elise Menaker doubled to bring Ashley Wolf home. With two outs, two more singles scored a pair to give Cornell a 4-1 lead to end the inning.

A homerun by Parker in the top of the fourth cut the Cornell lead to two. But two runs by the Big Red in the bottom half, along with one more in the sixth extended the lead to 7-2.

For Dartmouth, Parker went 3-3 while Jenna Campagnolo and Riscia went 2-3 for Cornell. In the circle, Trudeau went the complete game with five earned runs while striking out six. Jenn Meunier gave up two earned runs for the Big Red with seven strikeouts.

Leading off the second game bloop singles by Nikki Yee (Martinez, Calif.) and Ashley Gleason (Costa Mesa, Calif.) gave Dartmouth the first two hits of the nightcap. For the Big Red a ball hit just past second broke up Dartmouth pitcher Angela Megaw's (Bomoseen, Vt.) no-hitter in the bottom of the second.

Cornell got on the board first after a double started the inning off and Wolf singled to bring the run home. In the fourth a bases clearing triple by the Big Red gave them a 3-0 lead.

Cornell extended its lead in the bottom of the fifth after four singles put the Big Red up 4-0 while also loading the bases. A single to right field by Sarah Ruben scored two more before Battaglia blasted her second home run of the day to five Cornell the 9-0 win in five innings.

In the circle Megaw took the loss while Haley Mirrer was the winner for Cornell.

Dartmouth continues its road trip, traveling to Princeton for 1:00 pm doubleheader tomorrow, April 8.