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Princeton University Athletics
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Penn (Game 1)
Snyder Pitches Princeton to Twinbill Sweep of Penn in Ivy Opener
April 01, 2006 | Softball
April 1, 2006
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PHILADELPHIA - Ivy League play started on a strongly positive note Saturday for the Princeton softball team (16-8, 2-0 Ivy) at Penn (11-16, 0-2). Erin Snyder (8-3) threw a three-hitter with 14 strikeouts for a 4-0 victory in the opener and came into a tie game in the nightcap, picking up the 5-2 win there too. On the day, Snyder struck out 17 batters in 8 2/3 innings. The sweep extended Princeton's winning streak to seven games.
GAME ONE
Princeton left 11 runners on base for the game including six in scoring position, but the Tigers finally broke through in the sixth inning. Rookie Jackie Araneo came up with one out and Samantha O'Hara on second and took advantage, homering just over the left-field fence for her first-career round-tripper, giving Princeton a 2-0 lead. After Araneo's home run, Brianna Moreno and Cristina Cobb-Adams singled. Welch cashed both of them in with a single through the left side and Princeton was ahead 4-0.
Snyder wouldn't even allow Penn many opportunities to let slip. Penn had just three base runners, leaving one on second and two on third. Penn's top four hitters, all of whom entered the game batting between .389 and .400, went a combined 3 for 12 as the leader of that group, Snyder's fellow San Diegan Christina Khosravi, was 2 for 3 with a seventh-inning double. The reigning Ivy League Pitcher of the Week reached 14 Ks for the third time this season and for the second time without a walk. O'Hara, Araneo, Moreno, Kathryn Welch and Calli Jo Varner all had two hits apiece. Penn starter Emily Denstedt (7-8) threw the first six innings, giving up 12 hits and four runs with three strikeouts and no walks. Lindsey Permar was on for the seventh, allowing a hit and a walk.
GAME TWO
Princeton took advantage of two Penn errors to score a pair of runs in the first inning. Cobb-Adams reached when Quaker first baseman Kim May dropped the throw from shortstop, and after a sacrifice to second, scored on Welch's liner that went through the legs of third baseman Julia Cheney. Welch scored from second when Amanda Erickson lined one through the left side.
But the Princeton lead was halved in the bottom of the fifth when Cheney crushed a solo shot over the fence in left-center, bringing Penn to within 2-1. Cheney had the only two hits off Kristen Schaus until the first batter of the sixth inning, Stephanie Reichert, hammered a ball over the centerfield fence, tying the game.
Schaus was pulled with runners on first and second and one out in the sixth after giving up the game-tying home run to start the frame. Snyder came in, striking out the first two batters she faced and preventing Penn from taking the lead.
The tie didn't last long. Cobb-Adams led off the seventh with a double and took third on a Stephanie Steel sacrifice. As soon as Welch came up, she lined one through the left side, scoring Cobb-Adams for a 3-2 lead. Snyder came up next and wasn't content just contributing from the circle, joining the home run trend with a two-run shot, her second of the year. It was easily the most impressive homer of the day, bouncing off the top of the scoreboard in left, about 15 feet off the ground.
Snyder's home run chased Olivia Mauro (3-2) from the game after giving up seven hits and five runs, three earned, with two strikeouts and two walks in 6 1/3 innings. Permar got the last two outs, allowing a hit and fanning one Tiger batter.
For Princeton, Schaus finished with five hits and two runs in 5 1/3, walking two and striking out four. Snyder threw an inning and two thirds, sitting all five batters she faced while striking out three. Offensively, Welch was 3 for 4 while O'Hara also had two hits.
After the Tigers travel to Lehigh Wednesday for a 3 p.m. doubleheader, Princeton opens the home Ivy schedule next Saturday with a 1 p.m. twinbill against Yale and two with Brown Sunday at 1 p.m.