Tigers Hit Six Homers in Doubleheader Sweep of Penn

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Karis Ford, Lauren Pappert, Allie Goodwin and Abby Hornberger each hit a home run and Braeden Hale hit two as the Princeton softball team picked up 3-1 and 6-5 wins over Penn on Friday to move within one win of at least a share of the Ivy League title.

The two wins put Princeton at 14-3 in the Ivy with Harvard and Dartmouth tied at 10-6 after the Crimson defeated the Big Green in the opening game of their series on Friday. A Tiger win in Sunday's 12:30 p.m. single-game series finale at Penn would get the Tigers to 15 wins, a number no Ivy team could surpass over the final two weekends of the season, clinching that Ivy title share.

Friday's first game saw Princeton open the scoring with a Ford solo homer in the first inning before Pappert moved the lead to 2-0 with a solo homer in the third, the first home run of her career.

A hit batter, an unsuccessful fielder's choice and an Ella Utschig base hit cut the Princeton lead to 2-1 in the bottom of the third, and Princeton got the run back in the sixth on Goodwin's homer.

Brielle Wright went the distance in the opener, giving up a run on three hits without a walk, striking out four.

The nightcap saw Princeton get another first-inning home run, with Hale hitting a two-run homer after a Sonia Zhang leadoff double. Penn saw the first four batters of the bottom of the first inning get hits, with a Gigi Gange RBI double getting the Quakers on the board and a Jade Montgomery triple pushing two more across for a 3-2 Penn lead.

The Quakers held on to that one-run lead until the fifth inning while Tiger starter Cassidy Shaw settled in and retired 11 of 13 Quakers after the early four hits. Hornberger's homer tied it at 3-3 in the fifth, and two batters later, Hale homered for what was the rookie's first two-homer game as a Tiger, giving Princeton a 4-3 lead.

Penn threatened quickly after Princeton retook the lead, using a single, an error and a walk to load the bases with nobody out in the bottom of the fifth before a lineout, a force at home, and a called third strike got Shaw and the Tigers out of it with the 4-3 lead intact.

Princeton used the momentum to build on its lead in the sixth and score runs that ended up being the difference. A Jessica Phelps single and a passed ball preceded a Goodwin run-scoring single, and after a Lauren Sablone groundout to move Goodwin along, a Pappert hit drove home Goodwin to make it 6-3 for Princeton.

Two hits, an error and a walk in the bottom of the sixth against Shaw and Keala Hollenkamp combined helped Penn pull within one at 6-5, and after a quiet top of the seventh for Princeton at the plate, Hollenkamp got the first out of the bottom of the seventh before Wright, coming off her complete-game win in the opener, set down both batters she faced to secure the win and the doubleheader sweep.

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