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Princeton Softball to Play First Northern Games of 2007 at Rutgers Wednesday
March 26, 2007 | Softball
PRINCETON, N.J. – Following a long spring trip that featured 16 games in 10 days, the Princeton softball team will play a game in the northeast for the first time this season when the Tigers travel to Rutgers for a 3 p.m. twinbill Wednesday.
Records: Princeton 9-16, Rutgers 7-18
Head Coaches: Princeton – Maureen Barron (seventh season, Princeton '97); Rutgers – Jay Nelson (first season, St. Olaf '74)
Field: Rutgers Softball Complex
All-Time Series: Princeton leads 29-15
Last season: Princeton swept at home, 2-0 and 9-2 on March 29
Streak: Princeton has won the last two
Last time at Rutgers: Princeton split a pair, winning 12-3 and losing 3-1, in 2005
Forecast: High 50s, partly cloudy
On the series: Princeton and Rutgers have met every season from 1987 through the present after inaugurating the series in 1985. The Tigers have only been swept in doubleheaders three times, while the teams have split twinbills eight times and Princeton has swept eight times, including 2006.
More series: With 44 games all-time, Princeton-Rutgers is the sixth-most played rivalry in Tiger softball history, including Ivy League matchups. Princeton and another local RU, Rider, have met 49 times, while Princeton has met Harvard, Penn and Yale 47 times each and Brown 46 times.
Crossed paths, no confrontation: Princeton and Rutgers both played in the UNC Tar Heel Invitational the first week of March but did not meet. The tournament featured eight teams in two pools, and the Tigers and Scarlet Knights were in separate pools and did not meet in the single crossover game.
Last week: Princeton had a business trip to Florida last week, playing 16 games on three fields between Tampa, Gainesville and DeLand, Fla. The Tigers went 2-3 in the University of South Florida's Speedline Invitational before splitting twinbills with Stetson and South Florida and falling in a sweep at Florida. The Tigers closed the weekend with a difficult swing back on the Stetson campus, dropping five games.
Impressive, considering: The varsity women have been swinging the bats at Old Nassau since 1982 and the longest losing streak is seven games, set in 1999 and matched currently. Both streaks were set on spring trips.
Youth movement: Of the 10 most common Tiger starters, seven are freshmen or sophomores.
Young guns: Of Princeton's 11 home runs this year, six have been hit by freshmen, with three from Jamie Lettire, two from Kelsey Quist and one from Collette Abbott.
Multiple sources: Princeton's 17 doubles this year have been hit by nine players. Three (Stephanie Steel, Kathryn Welch, Kelsey Quist) share the team lead of three two-baggers.
More multiple sources: Princeton has batted in 66 runs by 13 players. Kathryn Welch has the team lead with 15.
Who needs a closer?: No Princeton pitcher has a save this season, but Princeton is 6-0 when leading headed into the seventh inning.
Keep 'em in the park: Princeton is 5-0 when it does not allow a home run, but 4-16 when it does.
Good timing: Kelsey Quist is fifth on the team in hits, with 14, but her 11 runs are a team best. No Tiger paw otherwise has touched home plate more than seven times.
Dollar Bri: Perhaps Princeton's speediest player, Brianna Moreno, certainly specializes in singles. The slapper has a team-high 25 hits, all leading to first base.
More Moreno: Brianna Moreno has a hit in 20 of 25 games this year and 10 of the last 11. She has five two-hit games on the year.
In the circle: Princeton's pitching trio has divided the innings this year, with Kristen Schaus logging 75, Calli Jo Varner throwing 46 and Jamie Lettire getting 38. The three have similar ERAs and records as well, with Lettire at 2-3, 3.32, Schaus at 4-8, 3.83 and Varner at 3-5, 5.02.
Hey, wait for us!: Penn and Columbia have already broken the seal on the 2007 Ivy League softball season as the Quakers took a doubleheader Sunday in Philadelphia. The teams will play twice more Monday under the new divisional format that has Princeton, Penn, Columbia and Cornell facing each other four times each. The Tigers will start with the Ivy North division as competition, visiting Brown and Yale Saturday and Sunday, when the league schedule is in full swing.
Rutgers at the plate: The Scarlet Knights are batting .257 as a team, with two starters over .300. Sophomore Sarah Kalka is at .323 while senior Kristin Madoch is at .314. The Scarlet Knights' opponents, however, are hitting .353, and have out-homered Rutgers 17-7 on the way to outscoring them 151-95.
Rutgers in the circle: Six pitchers have thrown for Rutgers this year, splitting the team's 158.2 innings. Chrissy Yard (51.1) and Nicole Freeman (48.2) have combined to throw 63% of the innings. Yard has compiled a 4.36 ERA and 4-7 record, while Freeman is at 1-5, 5.75.
No stranger: Just as Princeton is in a difficult stretch, Rutgers has had two eight-game losing streaks this year. Recently, the Knights broke the second of those in their first homestand against Maine and Saint Peter's last weekend.
Records: Princeton 9-16, Rutgers 7-18
Head Coaches: Princeton – Maureen Barron (seventh season, Princeton '97); Rutgers – Jay Nelson (first season, St. Olaf '74)
Field: Rutgers Softball Complex
All-Time Series: Princeton leads 29-15
Last season: Princeton swept at home, 2-0 and 9-2 on March 29
Streak: Princeton has won the last two
Last time at Rutgers: Princeton split a pair, winning 12-3 and losing 3-1, in 2005
Forecast: High 50s, partly cloudy
On the series: Princeton and Rutgers have met every season from 1987 through the present after inaugurating the series in 1985. The Tigers have only been swept in doubleheaders three times, while the teams have split twinbills eight times and Princeton has swept eight times, including 2006.
More series: With 44 games all-time, Princeton-Rutgers is the sixth-most played rivalry in Tiger softball history, including Ivy League matchups. Princeton and another local RU, Rider, have met 49 times, while Princeton has met Harvard, Penn and Yale 47 times each and Brown 46 times.
Crossed paths, no confrontation: Princeton and Rutgers both played in the UNC Tar Heel Invitational the first week of March but did not meet. The tournament featured eight teams in two pools, and the Tigers and Scarlet Knights were in separate pools and did not meet in the single crossover game.
Last week: Princeton had a business trip to Florida last week, playing 16 games on three fields between Tampa, Gainesville and DeLand, Fla. The Tigers went 2-3 in the University of South Florida's Speedline Invitational before splitting twinbills with Stetson and South Florida and falling in a sweep at Florida. The Tigers closed the weekend with a difficult swing back on the Stetson campus, dropping five games.
Impressive, considering: The varsity women have been swinging the bats at Old Nassau since 1982 and the longest losing streak is seven games, set in 1999 and matched currently. Both streaks were set on spring trips.
Youth movement: Of the 10 most common Tiger starters, seven are freshmen or sophomores.
Young guns: Of Princeton's 11 home runs this year, six have been hit by freshmen, with three from Jamie Lettire, two from Kelsey Quist and one from Collette Abbott.
Multiple sources: Princeton's 17 doubles this year have been hit by nine players. Three (Stephanie Steel, Kathryn Welch, Kelsey Quist) share the team lead of three two-baggers.
More multiple sources: Princeton has batted in 66 runs by 13 players. Kathryn Welch has the team lead with 15.
Who needs a closer?: No Princeton pitcher has a save this season, but Princeton is 6-0 when leading headed into the seventh inning.
Keep 'em in the park: Princeton is 5-0 when it does not allow a home run, but 4-16 when it does.
Good timing: Kelsey Quist is fifth on the team in hits, with 14, but her 11 runs are a team best. No Tiger paw otherwise has touched home plate more than seven times.
Dollar Bri: Perhaps Princeton's speediest player, Brianna Moreno, certainly specializes in singles. The slapper has a team-high 25 hits, all leading to first base.
More Moreno: Brianna Moreno has a hit in 20 of 25 games this year and 10 of the last 11. She has five two-hit games on the year.
In the circle: Princeton's pitching trio has divided the innings this year, with Kristen Schaus logging 75, Calli Jo Varner throwing 46 and Jamie Lettire getting 38. The three have similar ERAs and records as well, with Lettire at 2-3, 3.32, Schaus at 4-8, 3.83 and Varner at 3-5, 5.02.
Hey, wait for us!: Penn and Columbia have already broken the seal on the 2007 Ivy League softball season as the Quakers took a doubleheader Sunday in Philadelphia. The teams will play twice more Monday under the new divisional format that has Princeton, Penn, Columbia and Cornell facing each other four times each. The Tigers will start with the Ivy North division as competition, visiting Brown and Yale Saturday and Sunday, when the league schedule is in full swing.
Rutgers at the plate: The Scarlet Knights are batting .257 as a team, with two starters over .300. Sophomore Sarah Kalka is at .323 while senior Kristin Madoch is at .314. The Scarlet Knights' opponents, however, are hitting .353, and have out-homered Rutgers 17-7 on the way to outscoring them 151-95.
Rutgers in the circle: Six pitchers have thrown for Rutgers this year, splitting the team's 158.2 innings. Chrissy Yard (51.1) and Nicole Freeman (48.2) have combined to throw 63% of the innings. Yard has compiled a 4.36 ERA and 4-7 record, while Freeman is at 1-5, 5.75.
No stranger: Just as Princeton is in a difficult stretch, Rutgers has had two eight-game losing streaks this year. Recently, the Knights broke the second of those in their first homestand against Maine and Saint Peter's last weekend.
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