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Softball to Wrap Ivy North Play at Yale, Brown This Weekend
April 07, 2016 | Softball
Twenty percent of the Ivy League season may already be in the books, but little is settled.
By the time the Princeton softball team returns to campus Sunday night after the ride back from Providence, the picture will only be a little clearer with all of Ivy South play still to come.
Even so, every game this weekend is important, with the Tigers looking to make a move in the Ivy South before divisional play opens with Penn at Princeton next weekend. After last weekend's play, Penn and Columbia co-lead the Ivy South at 2-2 with Princeton and Cornell a game back at 1-3. Dartmouth holds a two-game lead in the Ivy North at 4-0, with Brown, Harvard and Yale all at 2-2.
Friday's doubleheader at Yale will start at 2 p.m. and Sunday's pair at Brown will start at 12:30 p.m. Princeton was scheduled to meet Yale Saturday, but the games were moved up a day due to weather.
All three of Princeton's losses last weekend - two to Dartmouth, one to Harvard - were by a single run or came in extra innings. Princeton's win was a 2-0 shutout of Harvard last Saturday that came a day after the Tigers battled Dartmouth for 10 innings before falling 12-9, a game that took nearly three and a half hours and forced the Big Green to return to '95 Field Sunday for the series finale with darkness and rain approaching as Friday afternoon wore on.
The Bulldogs, meanwhile, had their share of extra innings and close out comes as well. The trip to Columbia last Friday ended with two one-run decisions, one against in nine innings and one for in eight frames. Yale then rolled past Penn 9-0 in five innings before falling to the Quakers 6-5. Brown's story in the opening Ivy weekend wasn't much different, also splitting at Penn and Columbia.
Friday's games will also be the only collegiate matchup between the Jerpbak sisters, Princeton senior Skye and Yale freshman Terra. Skye Jerpbak, Princeton's starting catcher, has played in 26 games while starting 22, and Terra is Yale's most-used pitcher this season by innings pitched, carrying a 4-3 record and a 4.16 ERA through 70 2/3 innings.
Princeton took the three games to make it to completion against Yale and Brown last year, sweeping the Bears in a pair of 1-0 games played at Bordentown High School due to field conditions at the time at '95 Field, and nearly a month later, Princeton took the first game from Yale 2-0 before the second game was stopped by rain with Yale ahead 5-0 in the fifth inning and was not resumed.
Princeton also took three wins the last time the teams met in New England, with the Tigers splitting at Yale in 2014 and sweeping Brown.
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Doubleheaders |
 Princeton |
 Yale Friday, 2 p.m. DH |
 Brown Sunday, 12:30 p.m. DH |
| 2016 Record | 8-20, 1-3 Ivy | 9-19, 2-2 Ivy | 13-10, 2-2 Ivy |
| Top Hitter (by avg., min 2.5 PA/team gm.) | Kayla Bose, .298, 17-55 | Brittany Labbadia, .311, 28-90 | Julia Schoenewald, .436, 24-55 |
| Team BA | .252 | .252 | .301 |
| Top Pitcher (by IP) | Claire Klausner, 3-5, 4.64 ERA, 60 1/3 IP | Terra Jerpbak, 4-3, 4.16 ERA, 70 2/3 IP | Katie Orona, 6-5, 2.79 ERA, 70 1/3 IP |
| Team ERA | 4.15 | 4.39 | 2.93 |
| Home Runs | 11 | 0 | 8 |
| Series Notes | Princeton has taken 12 of the last 15 against Yale and Brown | Last swept two from Princeton in 2010 | Princeton has won six in a row; last swept two from Princeton in 1997 |