Lehigh Outlasts Softball in Marathon as 11th-Inning Rally Falls Short

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April 15, 2015 | Softball

By: Princeton Athletic Communications

Record	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	R	H	E	L
(27-6)	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	7	10	0	10
(14-19)	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	6	13	4	10

WP - Campbell (11-3), LP - Nori (0-3).
2B - Lehigh: Decker, Lattanzio; Princeton: Worden, Viggers 2, Bose, McGowan, Miller. 3B - Lehigh: Capetz. HR - Lehigh: Lattanzio (2), Calvini (3).

Box Score & Play-by-Play

Lehigh and Princeton showed up at the Class of 1895 Field Wednesday expecting to play two games.

What they played amounted to a game and a half, and a true doubleheader would have had a tough time outdoing this single game for drama.

Four pitchers combined to throw 405 pitches while facing 99 batters, each team left 10 runners on base and it wasn't decided until three hours and 26 minutes after the first pitch was thrown.

By the time the game ended, the scheduled second game was canceled with daylight running short.

Lehigh's Emily Bausher, who entered the game with the 19th-best ERA in Division I at 1.40, exceeded that in the first inning when a two-out walk and a single set the table for a Kayla Bose double that put Princeton up 2-0. Bausher, though, settled in and retired a string of 10 straight batters after stranding a Sarah McGowan leadoff double in the second.

In the meantime, Lehigh got to Princeton starter Ashley LaGuardia in the fourth after leaving the bases loaded against her in the third. Emma Capetz tripled home a run for the Mountain Hawks, and some errant throws helped the tying run score.

LaGuardia and then Erica Nori got out of jams in the fifth and sixth, but Jessica Calvini didn't let Princeton escape the seventh, blasting a two-run home run just inside the pole down the left-field line for a 4-2 Princeton lead.

Princeton, after threatening against Bausher in the fifth and sixth, broke through with no time to spare, getting three hits in the space of four batters in the seventh to tie the game. Cara Worden's pinch-hit double allowed Princeton to play on after Kate Miller started the rally with a double and Rachel Rendina kept it going with a single.

The eighth, ninth and 10th innings passed with only one of the six half-innings going by with neither team reaching a runner, and Nori and Lehigh reliever Christine Campbell, the Mountain Hawks second 10-game winner on the season along with Bausher, keeping it tied.

Then came the 11th inning. Princeton was an out away from doing no worse than sending it to the 12th, but Morgan Decker, who was 0 for 4 on the day coming into the at bat, laced a double to the fence in left-center, scoring a leadoff hit by MacKenzie Velasquez, and Vicky Lattanzio followed her with a strong home run just to the right of straight-away centerfield to make it 7-4.

Just as it did in the seventh, Princeton mounted a rally after Lehigh broke through in the top half of the frame. The first three Princeton batters reached, with Emily Viggers doubling home a run to make it 7-5. Kelsey Smith provided another RBI hit, but a flyout and a strikeout ended it with the tying run on third base.


Kate Miller led Princeton at the plate, going 3 for 4 as one of four Tigers with a multi-hit game.

Vicky Lattanzio's two-run home run was insurance at the time it was hit in the top of the 11th, and it proved to be the difference when Princeton mounted a two-run rally in the bottom half of the inning.

• Princeton still leads the series with Lehigh 30-16, but the Mountain Hawks have been tough to beat lately, now winning the last five games in the series since Princeton last won in 2011.

• The game was the longest at '95 Field since 2012, when Princeton and Cornell played a 14-inning game. It was Princeton's longest game anywhere since the Tigers and the same Big Red played a 15-inning game in 2013 in Ithaca.

• The loss was Princeton's first at '95 Field this season after sweeping four from Columbia last weekend.

• Kayla Bose's two RBIs were her most since getting three against Cornell in the final game of the 2013 season.

• Sarah McGowan's two-hit game was her first multi-hit game of the year.

• Kate Miller's three hits were a career high and were her first multi-hit game of her career.

• Rachel Rendina has a five-game hitting streak going and is hitting .400 (8-20) over the streak.

• Emily Viggers had two doubles in a game for the first time since March 2, 2014 against SIU-Edwardsville.


Princeton will travel to Penn to resume the Ivy League schedule Saturday with a 4 p.m. twinbill before a 2 p.m. doubleheader Sunday. The teams are tied for first place in the Ivy South.

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