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Softball Splits at Dartmouth to End Ivy North Play
April 09, 2011 | Softball
HANOVER, N.H. -- With its fourth split in as many Ivy League doubleheaders, the Princeton softball team remained one game behind Cornell in the Ivy South standings as both teams closed cross-divisional play Saturday.
Princeton fell to Dartmouth 10-9 in the afternoon's first game after a three-run seventh inning gave the Big Green a come-from-behind win, but Alex Peyton's four-hit shutout saved a split for the Tigers, who now stand at 13-17 overall and 4-4 in Ivy play.
Cornell split at Harvard to stand at 5-3 in conference play and maintain its one-game lead in the division. The Tigers will head to Penn next weekend for a four-game series while Cornell will visit Columbia for four.
Through the first five innings of Saturday's opener, it was Princeton that had to rally after Dartmouth scored the first six runs against Tiger starter Michelle Tolfa, who threw three innings, and Liza Kuhn (6-4), who went the last 3 2/3. Princeton scored five runs in the top of the sixth to make it a 6-5 game, two of those coming on a home run by Candy Button.
Dartmouth (11-14, 4-4) got one back in the bottom of the sixth to increase its lead to 7-5 on a Hillary Barker solo shot, but Princeton responded right away. Four singles and two errors led to the Tigers getting four runs to take a 9-7 lead against reliever Kat Hicks (2-1), who settled in to retire the next three batters and strand runners on second and third.
The Big Green made a winner of Hicks by starting the seventh with a walk and a single before ending the game with a pair of two-out hits to score three runs and win the game 10-9. Audrey Kolodziej had the game-winner, scoring Meghan Everett for the victory.
Hits were much tougher for Dartmouth to come by in the nightcap, as Alex Peyton (4-9) allowed just four of them, all singles, to go along with two walks. Dartmouth's Evan Gray (3-6) gave up eight hits, including three to Lizzy Pierce, but Sarah Rounsifer's only hit of the afternoon was the decisive one. Pierce led off the sixth with a single, took second on a Tory Roberts sacrifice, and came home on Rounsifer's single to score the game's first and only run.
The Tigers will return to the Class of 1895 Field with a 4 p.m. single game Tuesday against Hofstra.