Updated: Softball Team Looks to Continue Strong Ivy Start at Brown

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Looking to keep its 3-0 start to the Ivy League season going, the Princeton softball team will head out on the road for the first time during league play on the new season, visiting Brown for a three-game series Friday and Sunday.

The schedule has been adjusted due to expected rain Saturday.

Play will start at 3:30 p.m. Friday and 11:30 a.m. Sunday, with Sunday as a doubleheader. Live scoring will be available here, and ESPN+ links for the three games can be found here.

Princeton opened its season with a three-game sweep of Yale while Brown took one of three games from Columbia. The Tigers and Harvard co-lead the league at 3-0, with Columbia next at 2-1, Brown at 1-2, Cornell and Dartmouth yet to start the league season at 0-0, and Penn and Yale at 0-3.

Princeton swept last season's three-game series from Brown in Princeton. That was the teams' first meetings since before the pandemic pause, and Princeton has an eight-game win streak in the series since Brown's last win in the first game of the 2018 series in Providence. Princeton swept the 2019 series in Providence as well.

Princeton hits .255 as a team and has four players, all regulars, hitting above .300 in Adrienne Chang (.351), Serena Starks (.333), Allison Ha (.315) and Grace Jackson (.302). Starks entered the week leading the Ivy in hits (22) and runs scored (13).

In the circle, Alexis Laudenslager won her second Ivy Pitcher of the Week award after two wins last weekend against Yale including a five-inning no-hitter. It was the third solo no-hitter of Laudenslager's career, making her just the second pitcher in Princeton history to have at least three solo no-hitters. Erin Snyder '06 had four. Laudenslager is the Ivy's strikeouts leader on the season by far, with 65 and Dartmouth's Rachel McCarroll second at 38. Laudenslager (3-7, 1.45 ERA), Brielle Wright (1-2, 4.11) and Molly Chambers (3-2, 3.84) have all made multiple starts this season, and Meghan Harrington (0-1, 3.98) has two saves.

Ashley McDonald entered the week ranked eighth in Division I in runners caught stealing, with nine. Ha was ranked as 34th-toughest to strike out, at a strikeout every 27 at-bats, and Laudenslager was 38th in Ks per seven, at 9.3.

Brown hits .226 as a team with Dara English above .300 at .324. Alexis Guevara (2-4, 1.37 ERA) and Annie Finch (0-3, 1.59) have combined to throw 60 2/3 of the team's 83 innings.

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