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Softball Rallies for Split at Brown
April 10, 2010 | Softball
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Twice rallying from Brown leads in the second game of Saturday's doubleheader, the Princeton softball team won its first Ivy League game 6-5 after the Bears claimed the opener 5-0.
Princeton will face Yale Sunday at 12:30 p.m. for a pair of games to close out play against Ivy North opponents.
Game 1: Brown 5, Princeton 0
Brown (13-12, 1-5 Ivy) jumped on Princeton (7-23, 1-5) rookie pitcher Liza Kuhn early in the first game, scoring five runs on five first-inning hits to give the Bears all they'd need in a 5-0 victory. The Tigers managed four hits against Brown pitcher Kristie Chin.
After the first inning, Kuhn and Jamie Lettire, who took over during the fourth inning, held Brown to just one hit.
Game 2: Princeton 6, Brown 5
Princeton's first win of the Ivy League season was also Jamie Lettire's first win of the season overall as the senior threw all seven innings and got enough offensive support to claim a 6-5 victory.
The Tigers fell behind after Brown plated one in the first, but two hits, a wild pitch and an error helped Princeton find the equalizer in the top of the second.
It was just the first of three times that the teams matched outputs at the plate in consecutive at-bats. In the bottom of the fourth, Brown took a 4-1 lead on the strength of an Amanda Asay home run and a Katie Rothamel two-run double, but Princeton matched it in the top of the fifth. Senior Kelsey Quist provided a two-run double of her own, and freshman Sarah Rounsifer singled home a run, and the game was tied again at 4-4.
The lead was short-lived, as Brown's Kristie Chin knocked home a run in the bottom of the fifth, but again Princeton answered in the top of the sixth with a Kelsey VandeBergh sacrifice fly.
Again tied at 5-5, Princeton came through in the top of the seventh when Rounsifer had the third hit in the inning to cash in a run and take a 6-5 lead that Lettire held by limiting Brown to just one hit in the seventh.