Saturday, March 26
Cambridge, Mass.
12:00 PM
Princeton University
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Adrienne Chang went 3 for 3 in Saturday's second game.
Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast
Softball Earns Split at Harvard, Aims for Series Win on Sunday
March 26, 2022 | Softball
After a pair of games on Saturday each decided by one run, the Princeton softball team will head back to Harvard on Sunday looking to win the series.
Sunday's game is set for a 12:30 p.m. start on ESPN+. Live scoring is available here.
In Saturday's first game, a 2-1 Harvard win, all three runs came between the first two innings. Harvard started the bottom of the first with a walk and a base hit, scoring the first run on a double steal before the second run came home on a wild pitch for a 2-0 lead. Princeton answered in the top of the second when Sophia Marsalo started with a base hit and Grace Jackson picked her up four batters later with a base hit of her own to make it 2-1.
Alexis Laudenslager helped keep Harvard off the board the rest of the way, finishing with the two runs on four hits and three walks, striking out eight. Princeton outhit the Crimson in game one, 7-4, and mounted one last threat in the top of the seventh. All with one out, an Allison Ha double preceded walks to Lauren Sablone and Ali Blanchard, but a pair of ground-ball outs preserved the one-run win for Harvard.
Jackson led Princeton at the plate in the opener with two hits.
Princeton struck early in game two, with an error and base hits from Ashley McDonald and Adrienne Chang putting runners on for Marsalo to pick up a sacrifice fly and Ha to double home a run for a 2-0 Princeton lead. Harvard got one back in the bottom of the first after Morgan Melito had the third of three consecutive base hits for the Crimson, but it stayed at 2-1 into the fifth.
Each team had three runs in the fifth, with Princeton starting off with back-to-back doubles from Chang and Marsalo to push the lead to 3-1 before two more runs came home off a Blanchard base hit to make it 5-1. Harvard got those three runs back in the bottom of the fifth on a Melito bases-clearing triple after a single and two walks earlier in the inning, and it stood 5-4 headed to the sixth.
Blanchard closed strong in the circle, finishing her day with the four runs earned on nine hits and two walks, strking out 12 and allowing Harvard only one baserunner over the last two innings as Princeton held on to the one-run lead.
Chang finished the second game 3 for 3 to lead Princeton at the plate.
Sunday's game is set for a 12:30 p.m. start on ESPN+. Live scoring is available here.
In Saturday's first game, a 2-1 Harvard win, all three runs came between the first two innings. Harvard started the bottom of the first with a walk and a base hit, scoring the first run on a double steal before the second run came home on a wild pitch for a 2-0 lead. Princeton answered in the top of the second when Sophia Marsalo started with a base hit and Grace Jackson picked her up four batters later with a base hit of her own to make it 2-1.
Alexis Laudenslager helped keep Harvard off the board the rest of the way, finishing with the two runs on four hits and three walks, striking out eight. Princeton outhit the Crimson in game one, 7-4, and mounted one last threat in the top of the seventh. All with one out, an Allison Ha double preceded walks to Lauren Sablone and Ali Blanchard, but a pair of ground-ball outs preserved the one-run win for Harvard.
Jackson led Princeton at the plate in the opener with two hits.
Princeton struck early in game two, with an error and base hits from Ashley McDonald and Adrienne Chang putting runners on for Marsalo to pick up a sacrifice fly and Ha to double home a run for a 2-0 Princeton lead. Harvard got one back in the bottom of the first after Morgan Melito had the third of three consecutive base hits for the Crimson, but it stayed at 2-1 into the fifth.
Each team had three runs in the fifth, with Princeton starting off with back-to-back doubles from Chang and Marsalo to push the lead to 3-1 before two more runs came home off a Blanchard base hit to make it 5-1. Harvard got those three runs back in the bottom of the fifth on a Melito bases-clearing triple after a single and two walks earlier in the inning, and it stood 5-4 headed to the sixth.
Blanchard closed strong in the circle, finishing her day with the four runs earned on nine hits and two walks, strking out 12 and allowing Harvard only one baserunner over the last two innings as Princeton held on to the one-run lead.
Chang finished the second game 3 for 3 to lead Princeton at the plate.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Reed, Anna (5-4)
L: Laudenslager, Alexis (4-6)
S: Arrambide, Katie (1)
Batting:
2B: Ha, Allison 1
RBI: Jackson, Grace 1
SH: Ha, Allison 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Marsalo, Sophia 1
SB: Sablone, Lauren 1
CS: Lee, Abbie 1
Batting:
2B: Lee, Ella 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Welsh, Megan 1 ; Bobowski, Lauren 1
SB: Welsh, Megan 1 ; Bobowski, Lauren 1 ; Lampson, Kaitlin 1
HBP: Mays, Madi 1 ; Lee, Ella 1
Game Leaders
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H
1
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