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Louisville Blanks Princeton Softball, 5-0
March 09, 2007 | Softball
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Louisville starter Kassie Stanfill allowed Princeton only two hits as the softball Tigers fell to the Cardinals, 5-0, in Princeton's second game at the Maryland Invitational Friday afternoon.
The loss snapped a three-game winning streak for the Tigers, who fall to 3-3 and 1-1 at the Maryland tournament. Louisville improved to 7-8 in its first game in College Park.
Princeton starter Kristen Schaus (1-2) had a rough first outing in Maryland, adding four walks and three hit batters to five hits allowed in five innings on 121 pitches. Schaus fanned six to give her 32 strikeouts in 23 innings of work.
Princeton fell behind early after Schaus' 36-pitch first inning. The righthander fanned the first two batters, but walked Courtney Moore and allowed a double to Melissa Roth that scored Moore for a 1-0 lead.
Schaus let the leadoff runners on in the second and third and stranded them both times, but she and the Tigers were not as fortunate in the fourth. Following a leadoff walk to Louisville's Skye Miller and a single two batters later to Audrey Rendon, Moore doubled both home and the Cardinals were ahead 3-0.
After three perfect innings for Stanfill, Stephanie Steel gave the Tigers their first baserunner when she smacked a fourth-inning leadoff double to the fence in right-center. Stanfill, however, retired the next three and the Tigers were still behind by three.
Jamie Lettire entered for the sixth and her first batter, Rendon, reached on a low throw from Kathryn Welch at second base. Two batters later, Moore had her third and fourth RBIs of the game whne she homered just left of straightaway centerfield to give Louisville a 5-0 lead.
Lettire finished with two runs, one earned, on two hits and a walk with a strikeout in two innings in the circle.
Stanfill (4-2) finished with two hits and a walk while fanning five Tigers. Princeton had only three baserunners with a walk to Lettire and a seventh-inning single to Collette Abbott to follow Steel's double.
Princeton will lead off tomorrow's schedule with Rhode Island at 9 a.m.