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Softball Drops One to Lafayette, One to Rain Sunday
March 28, 2010 | Softball
PRINCETON -- A nine-run sixth inning by Lafayette made it too much of a deficit to overcome for the Princeton softball team Sunday afternoon at Class of 1895 Field as the Leopards returned to Pennsylvania with a 14-4, six-inning win.
A second game was scheduled to be played, but after rain fell for most of the opener, the area around the pitching circle and home plate were too soft for play in the nightcap.
Lafayette (8-9) made Princeton (6-15) play from behind for the duration of the afternoon once Stacey Kushner clubbed a two-run home run in the first inning, two frames before the Leopards added three more in the third against Tiger senior Jamie Lettire to put Princeton behind 5-0.
Leopards pitcher Kasey Karr didn't allow a runner past second base for the first five innings, holding the Tigers to two hits over that span. The Leopards exploded for nine runs in the sixth, three of which came on Kushner's second home run of the day and four more on a grand slam by Karr.
Princeton awoke in the bottom of the sixth for all four of its runs, including RBIs from Lettire, Lizzy Pierce and two on a double by Sarah Rounsifer, who popped two home runs in Saturday's first game against Rutgers. Princeton needed three more to extend the game, but Karr and the Leopards kept the margin at 10 to invoke the eight-run rule and end the contest.
Princeton will have one last tune-up against another Patriot League foe before Ivy League play begins Friday at '95 Field against Harvard when the Tigers travel to Lehigh (12-8) for a Wednesday twinbill beginning at 3 p.m.