Big Green Swept by Princeton in Doubleheader

Saturday, April 13

Princeton, N.J.

12:30 PM

Dartmouth College

9-13, 5-5

Princeton

17-11, 6-4

Dartmouth

Princeton

Cwen Wilson's Game 2 homer was among Saturday's highlights

Photo by: Ryan Yong

4/13/2024 7:54:00 PM | Softball

Box Score 1 Box Score 2

Mary Beth Cahalan stretched her hitting streak to 11 games and Cwen Wilson hit her second home run of the season

By: Kyle Relf

PRINCETON, N.J. — Opening a three-game road series against defending Ivy League regular season champion Princeton – a battle between two teams tied for third in the Ancient Eight standings – the Dartmouth softball team was on the wrong end of Saturday's doubleheader sweep and now hopes to avoid a series sweep on Sunday.

Among the bright spots for the Big Green was Mary Beth Cahalan, who extended her hitting streak to 11 games and went 2-for-3 at the plate with an RBI double during the opener. In the second game, first-year Cwen Wilson hit her second home run of the season.

Cahalan has 15 hits over the last 11 games and is batting .484 in that span.

GAME 1 • Princeton 8, Dartmouth 4
A three-run fourth gave the Big Green their first lead of the ballgame, but Princeton's four-run fifth was too much to overcome as Dartmouth struggled to maintain offensive success in the final innings.

Trailing 2-0 entering the top of the fourth, the Big Green strung together hits from Cahalan, Alaana Panu and Olivia Schramm to push one across before Leila Hennessy scored two with her two-out RBI double. In the fifth, it was Cwen Wilson's lead-off single that sparked the Big Green before Cahalan's double brought her home. That would be the last hit of the game for Dartmouth, and Princeton went on to put up four runs on four hits the next half inning.

GAME NOTES
» Dartmouth went 3-for-8 (.375) with runners in scoring position.
» Dartmouth pitchers faced 31 Princeton hitters in the game, allowing eight ground balls and five fly balls while striking out three.
» Hennessy led the Big Green at the plate, going 1-for-3 with a double and two RBI.
» Princeton was led offensively by junior Lauren Sablone, who went 3-for-3 with two home runs and three RBI.
» Sophomore Brielle Wright led the Tigers pitching staff, throwing three scoreless innings.

GAME 2 • Princeton 11, Dartmouth 1
Princeton scored early and often in Game 2, beginning with a two-run second, emphasized by a six-run third and capped off by a three-run fourth. Cwen Wilson's home run, one of the Big Green's two hits in the ballgame, came in the fifth and final inning.

Meghan Harrington earned the win for the Tigers over Big Green pitcher Rachel McCarroll, who started both games of the doubleheader.

GAME NOTES
» Dartmouth pitchers faced 26 Princeton hitters in the game, allowing two ground balls and seven fly balls while striking out one.
» Wilson led the Big Green at the plate, going 1-for-2 with a home run and an RBI.
» Princeton was led offensively by sophomore Julia Dumais, who went 2-for-3 with a home run and two RBI.