Dartmouth Opens Series at Brown With a Pair of Wins

Saturday, April 16

Providence, R.I

12:30 PM

Dartmouth College

Brown

Dartmouth Opens Series at Brown With a Pair of Wins

4/16/2016 5:48:00 PM | Softball

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By: Dartmouth

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Dartmouth softball team continued its dominant play against Ancient Eight teams by sweeping the first two games of a four-game series on the road at Brown with a 7-2 and 4-1 victory on Saturday afternoon.

The Big Green are now 22-10, 10-0 in the Ivy League, while the Bears fall to 16-14, 5-5 in the conference.

Game 1 was a showdown between the team's top two pitchers as senior Morgan McCalmon took the circle for Dartmouth and Katie Orona got the start for Brown. Both hurlers shared Ivy League Pitcher of the Week honors, but it was McCalmon who got the win to improve to 13-3 on the season. She pitched a complete game with zero walks and three strikeouts.

The Big Green struck first when sophomore Lourlin Lara lead off with a walk and stole second. She scored when senior Kelsey Miller doubled to right-center, giving Dartmouth a 1-0 lead. The Bears responded in their bottom half of the inning when Janet Leung led off with a single up the middle and scored on Yeram Park's triple to right center, tying the game 1-1. The next batter, Ashli Lotz fouled out to right, but Park scored on the sacrifice, giving the home team a 2-1 lead after one.

Brown's lead did not last for long when the Big Green scored three runs in the top of the second to take a 4-2 lead. Junior Maddie Damore led off with a single and scored when senior Kathy Dzienkowski singled down the right field line. With two outs, Lara walked for the second time of day and crossed home plate on a Miller single and throwing error by the right fielder.

After a couple scoreless innings, Dartmouth added to its lead in the top of the fifth as Martinelli and Chaw each singled with one out in the inning. Brianna Lohmann came in to to pinch run for Martinelli and scored when senior Katie McEachern singled up the middle. Damore continued her solid day at the plate with an RBI single that scored Chaw from second base.

Ahead 6-2, the Big Green added one more run in the sixth after sophomore Tiffany Dyson led off with a single to the third basemen and scored when Miller ripped a single up the middle. Facing the top half of the Bears' lineup in the seventh, McCalmon retired the first two batters she faced before giving up a double. The Norman, Oklahoma native got Lotz to fly out for the final out and the victory.

In Game 2 sophomore Breanna Ethridge went to the circle for the Dartmouth where she pitched a complete game allowing just five hits through seven innings for her eighth win of the season. The Big Green grabbed an early 1-0 lead when Lara singled to third and advanced to third on Miller's single. With two outs, McEachern hit a double to left field, scoring Lara before Miller was thrown out at home.

In the top of the second with one out and bases loaded, Lara singed to the shortstop to score Damore before Miller hit a sacrifice fly, scoring Madill. Ethridge continued to pitch well holding Brown hitless in the fifth and sixth innings. In the top of the seventh, Dartmouth added an insurance run when Miller scored on junior Karen Chaw's one out base hit to center field.

The Bears challenged the Green and White in the bottom of the seventh when Brown put two runners on in scoring position with one out. Annie Scarangella singled to center field which scored a run, but the Big Green were able to throw Sarah Syrop out at the plate after she tried to score from second. After giving up a walk, Ethridge managed to get Leung to ground out to end the game and preserve the victory.

Dartmouth returns to the diamond tomorrow to conclude its four game series with Brown with a doubleheader at 12:30 p.m.