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East Carolina, Wisconsin Top Softball at Stanford Invite
March 21, 2008 | Softball
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- East Carolina scored early and WIsconsin scored late as both teams took contests from the Princeton softball team Friday on day two at the Stanford Invitational. East Carolina won 8-0 in six innings while Wisconsin enjoyed a 2-1 comeback win.
The losses drop Princeton to 3-14 on the season and 0-3 at the Stanford tournament, which wraps up Sunday. Princeton will meet East Carolina again Saturday at 10 a.m. PT before facing the host Cardinal at 2 p.m.
East Carolina 8, Princeton 0 (6 inn.)
East Carolina (21-11) tagged Princeton starter Kristen Schaus (1-10) for four runs over the first two innings and had a four-run sixth that invoked the eight-run rule.
Schaus allowed just four hits in her officially credited one inning, though she faced two batters in the second. Two of those four hits came around to score as did two hit batters, giving the Pirates their four early runs.
Michelle Tolfa entered in the second and kept East Carolina off the board for the first four of her 4 2/3 innings before running into trouble in the sixth. Tolfa gave up four of her six hits and one of her two walks in that frame.
At the plate, Jamie Lettire reached base in all three of her plate appearances with two hits and a walk. However, she represented Princeton's furthest advance on the basepaths as she was the only Tiger to reach as far as second base, doing so twice. Princeton had six hits on the game.
Wisconsin 2, Princeton 1
The Tigers looked to be headed for their first win of the Stanford weekend when it took a one-run lead over Wisconsin into the late innings, but the Badgers responded with two runs in the sixth to pull out the 2-1 win.
Tolfa returned to the circle following her relief appearance in game one and gave up just four hits in six innings of work in the nightcap. The freshman took a no-hitter into the fifth inning before that inning's first two WIsconsin batters singled. Tolfa was close to getting out of the jam before Wisconsin's Theresa Boruta dropped a shallow single into leftfield that scored one run and helped the go-ahead run score when it took an unpredictable bounce toward the foul line.
Princeton got a Collette Abbott single in the seventh but stranded her at first as the Badgers improved to 8-18 on the season. Abbott had two of Princeton's five hits while Kelsey Quist drove home Princeton's run in the first inning. Megan Weidrick led off the game with a single and had moved to third by the time Quist, Princeton's cleanup hitter, provided the run-scoring single.