Second Straight Weekend Sweep for Softball as Tigers Top Yale

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Three wins, three shutouts, and a second consecutive weekend sweep for the Princeton softball team at the Tigers' new home at Cynthia Lynn Paul '94 Field in Princeton's Meadows Neighborhood.

With the wins, 9-0 in five innings and 2-0 in the series finale after opening with a 6-0 win on Friday, Princeton completed its first three-game shutout sweep of an Ivy opponent since the league went to seven three-game series in 2018. This weekend's series was the 37th under the current format.

The 6-0 Ivy start is the team's best since 2008, when that year's Tigers started 14-0 on the way to setting a league record for Ivy-season wins that has since been equaled but not surpassed, at 18-2.

Saturday's first game saw Princeton continue a trend over the first two league weekends that has seen the team score 35 of its 40 total runs during multi-run innings. An eight-run third inning saw Princeton send 14 batters to the plate and seven contribute at least one RBI. Lauren Sablone started it two batters in with a triple that allowed a leadoff walk to Braeden Hale to score, and after Julia Dumais was hit by a pitch and Karis Ford walked, Allison Ha made it 3-0 with a two-run single. Graciela Dominguez then followed with an infield hit to make it 4-0, and two batters later, Hale began a run of four straight batters to draw a bases-loaded walk and double the lead, with pinch hitter Jessica Phelps, Dumais and Ford getting the walks.

The fourth inning saw Sonia Zhang start the inning with a double and Sophia Marsalo follow her with a pinch-hit RBI single to make it 9-0 and put the game into run-rule territory, and that was plenty for Cassidy Shaw, who completed the five-inning, two hit shutout with nine strikeouts, a walk and a hit batter. The nine Ks tied a career high for the sophomore Shaw, who fanned nine against Penn on March 30, 2024.

Game two saw Princeton's Brielle Wright and Yale's Emma Taylor post dueling zeroes through five innings, with Wright giving up just two singles and a walk over that span and Taylor getting out of jams in the third, fourth and fifth innings after setting down each of the first eight Tigers she faced. Princeton had back-to-back two-out singles from Lauren Pappert and Zhang in the third, had a one-out single from Ha and a two-out single from Dominguez in the fourth, and in the fifth, a one-out Pappert single, a failed fielder's choice that allowed Zhang to reach, and a walk to Dumais, but two pop-ups ended that threat as Princeton batters struck out just twice during the nightcap.

Princeton finally broke through in the sixth, using a leadoff walk to Lauren Sablone and a one-out base hit from Allie Goodwin to put two on for Pappert, who went a career-best 3 for 3 and sent a two-run single to left-center to pick up both pinch runner Julieta Roa and Goodwin for a 2-0 lead.

Wright, who carried a no-hitter into the fifth, set down the last six batters she faced and finished with a career-high 10 strikeouts, surpassing the six the junior had reached twice in her career, most recently earlier this season against Idaho State.

Princeton will host Lehigh on Wednesday in the first night game in Cynthia Paul Field history in a 6 p.m. start. The return to Ivy play will come next weekend at Dartmouth.

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