Dartmouth Sweeps Doubleheader at Penn, Stretches Win Streak to Five

Saturday, April 27

Philadelphia, Pa.

12:30 PM

Dartmouth College

13-15, 0

Penn

9-26, 0

Dartmouth

Penn

Kelly Beaupre hit two home runs on Saturday, finishing the afternoon with five RBIs.

Photo by: Kyle Relf

Dartmouth Sweeps Doubleheader at Penn, Stretches Win Streak to Five

4/27/2024 7:17:00 PM | Softball

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Kelly Beaupre and company totaled 17 runs on the afternoon

By: Kyle Relf

PHILADELPHIA — Dominant pitching, hot hitting – it all came together for the Dartmouth softball team on Saturday in Philadelphia during a doubleheader sweep of Penn as the Big Green grabbed their fourth and fifth consecutive wins.

Dartmouth, tallying 17 runs on the afternoon, dominated Game 1 by a final score of 10-0 in five innings before cruising to a 7-1 Game 2 triumph.

Kelly Beaupre was one of several Big Green hitters to rack up gaudy numbers at the plate, going deep in both games and finishing the day with five RBIs.

Jensin Hall, recently the first player in program history named to the TUCCI/NFCA Division I National Freshman of the Year Top 25, struck out 12 Quakers and allowed just one hit through five innings in Game 1. Then it Rachel McCarroll's turn, and she delivered seven innings of one-run ball in the nightcap.

GAME 1 • Dartmouth 10, Penn 0 (5 inn.)
The Big Green raced to a 4-0 advantage by the middle of the second, and that margin felt even larger with Hall in the circle. Dartmouth's one-run first proved to be more than enough run support for the first-year star, but Beaupre and company continued to pile on to the tune of 13 total hits.

Beaupre, Alaana Panu, Leila Hennessy, Justice Malone and Ashley Frantz each finished with two hits. Beaupre and Olivia Schramm drove home three runs apiece.

Back-to-back singles by Panu and Beaupre delivered three runs in the second as the Big Green were on top 4-0, then the floodgates opened with a five-run third that included another RBI single from Panu. Schramm drove in two with a two-out double before Leila Hennessy tacked on another run with an RBI single.

Beaupre, now with a home run in four of the last five games, jacked her third of the season in the fifth inning.

Penn recorded its first hit of the game in the fourth, but three straight strikeouts quickly quelled the Quakers' chances of getting on the board. After issuing a walk to start the second inning, Hall fanned six straight. The four-time Ivy League Pitcher of the Week now has double-digit strikeouts in seven different games this season.

GAME 2 • Dartmouth 7, Penn 1
Tied 1-1 after two, the Big Green plated four in the third to take control while McCarroll settled in two allow only one hit over her final five innings of work.

Beaupre once again recorded two hits, including a homer, while Leila Hennessy came away with three RBIs thanks to her third-inning double. Malone was also good for two hits, as she was in Game 1.

Dartmouth was able to push one across in the second thanks to Schramm's lead-off single and a costly Penn error. Hennessy emphatically broke the 1-1 tie in the third with her three-run double. Malone added another run with a double of her own.

Beaupre's second home run of the day, and fourth of the season, came in the sixth with Panu standing on first base.

McCarroll allowed three hits and struck out four in her complete-game victory.

The Big Green will look to complete the series sweep and pick up their sixth straight win on Sunday when they square off with the Quakers in the series finale at 12:30 p.m.