Late Rally Falls Short for Softball Against Dartmouth

Sunday, April 3

Class of 1895 Field

2:00 PM

Princeton University

Dartmouth (Game 2)

Stats

Late Rally Falls Short for Softball Against Dartmouth

April 03, 2016 | Softball

By: Princeton Athletic Communications

Record	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E	L
(15-9, 4-0)	2	0	2	1	0	0	0	5	11	2	8
(7-20, 1-3)	0	0	1	0	0	2	1	4	9	1	4

WP - McCalmon, LP - La Guardia, Save - Ethridge

Box Score & Play-by-Play

Princeton mounted a captivating rally with a two-run home run by Keeley Walsh in the sixth and a solo shot from Kylee Pierce in the seventh, but Dartmouth held on for a 5-4 win to wrap the weekend Sunday at the Class of 1895 Field.

The game was an early pivotal contest in the Ivy League standings, which now show Princeton, at 1-3 in the league, a game back of Penn and Columbia in the Ivy South and Dartmouth, now 4-0 in the Ivy, two games in front of Brown, Harvard and Yale in the Ivy North.

Princeton will head to Yale and Brown next weekend to complete cross-divisional play.

Dartmouth got out to a 5-1 lead by the fourth inning, getting four runs off starter Ashley La Guardia. The sophomore left after getting into trouble in the third on two hits and a walk to load the bases with the Big Green already up 2-0. Katie McEachern greeted reliever Riley Wilkinson with a two-run single to push the lead to 4-0.

Princeton got on the board in the third when Pierce led off with a double and came home three batter later on a Marissa Reynolds sac fly, but Dartmouth got the run right back in the top of the fourth on a Karen Chaw RBI hit for the 5-1 lead.

That's where it stood until the sixth, when Walsh's two-run shot pulled Princeton within 5-3, and Pierce's solo homer to lead off the seventh made it 5-4. Reliever Breanna Ethridge came in for Dartmouth starter Morgan McCalmon, and although Ethridge put the possible tying run on with a Skye Jerpbak single, she got two flyouts to end it and save the win.


Freshman Riley Wilkinson threw five innings of relief, giving up four hits and an unearned run to allow Princeton to make a comeback.

It wasn't the loudest run scored of the day, but it ended up being the difference. Dartmouth's Karen Chaw stepped to the plate with the Big Green up 4-1 in the top of the fourth and a runner on second after an error and a wild pitch. Chaw laced a single through the left side to allow Kelsey Miller to score for a 5-1 Dartmouth lead, a run that was everything once Princeton pulled within 5-4.

• Dartmouth ran its winning streak against Princeton to six games.

• Eleven of Princeton's 20 defeats this season, including both Dartmouth games, have been by a single run or have been decided in extra innings.

• Senior Skye Jerpbak had her fourth multi-hit game of the season and third in the last nine games, going 2 for 3 today.

• Kylee Pierce's home run was the first of the sophomore's career.

• Freshman Keeley Walsh's home run was the second of her young Tiger career, both coming in the last five games.

• Freshman Riley Wilkinson's five-inning appearance was the longest outing of her Tiger career. Her five strikeouts were also a career high.