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Lettire Ties Homer Record in Dartmouth's Sweep of Softball
April 03, 2010 | Softball
PRINCETON -- Senior Jamie Lettire hit a home run in each of Saturday's two games to tie the Princeton career home run record, but Dartmouth took both games from the Tigers by scores of 5-2 and 6-4.
Lettire now shares the record of 37 home runs with Melissa Finley '05. The round-trippers were her seventh and eighth of the season.
Dartmouth 5, Princeton 2 (10 inn.)
In the longest game at Class of 1895 Field in five years, Dartmouth (3-17, 2-2 Ivy) pushed across three runs in the 10th inning to get past the Princeton softball team 5-2 in Saturday's opener.
Princeton (6-21, 0-4) last played as many as 10 innings at '95 Field in 2005 in a 1-0 loss to Harvard in 10. It was Princeton's longest game overall since 2007, when the Tigers defeated Yale 4-1 in 10 in New Haven.
Dartmouth never led until the 10th inning. An RBI-single by Kelsey Quist in the first inning and Lettire's first home run of the day in the third inning put Princeton ahead twice after the Big Green got four straight hits against Alex Peyton to tie it in the second inning.
Princeton's 2-1 lead held until the sixth, when a Molly Khalil home run tied it, and the teams stayed there until the 10th after both let chances pass to take the lead over the three frames in between.
An RBI-single by Audrey Kolodziej and a two-run double from Christy Autin helped the Big Green capitalize on a walk and a fielding error by the Tigers in the inning to build the three-run cushion. Princeton managed a single and a walk in the bottom of the 10th but couldn't convert, and the Big Green had their first Ivy win.
Dartmouth 6, Princeton 4
Dartmouth didn't wait until extra innings in the night cap to push key runs across, scoring two in the seventh inning to break a tie and get a 6-4 win.
Autin's two-run double gave Dartmouth a 2-0 lead in the second inning before Lettire hit another third-inning homer to halve it. A home run by Dartmouth's Noelle Martinez was one of two runs the Big Green scored between the fourth and fifth innings to pull ahead 4-1, but Princeton had a comeback in store.
Quist's two-run double followed by Megan Weidrick's RBI-single, all with two out in the fifth, enabled the Tigers to tie it at 4-4.
The Tigers had a chance to go ahead in the sixth, getting two singles and a hit batter before there were two out, but a force at home and a groundout ended the threat and kept the game tied.
Khalil's second home run of the day and a run-scoring hit by Nikki Yee gave Dartmouth its final two runs, and the Tigers managed just a walk in the seventh as Dartmouth completed the sweep.
Princeton will travel to Hofstra for its final non-league game of the season Tuesday at 4 p.m.