Sunday, April 13
Ithaca, N.Y.
12:30 PM
Princeton University
at
Cornell
Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast
UPDATED: Atop Ivy, Softball Team to Head to Cornell Sunday-Monday
April 07, 2025 | Softball
With a two-game lead over Columbia, the Princeton softball team will head to Cornell this weekend atop the Ivy League headed into the fourth of seven league weekends.
at Cornell (NEW DATES) | Live Stats | Int'l VideoÂ
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• At 8-1, Princeton leads the Ivy by two games over 6-3 Columbia with Harvard, Brown and Dartmouth all tied for third at 5-4, Yale next at 6-6, Cornell at 4-5 and Penn at 0-12. The top four teams will make the Ivy League Tournament, set to be played at the highest seed's home park. Four league weekends remain, with the Tigers at Cornell this weekend and hosting Columbia the following weekend before heading to Penn and then Brown.
• Princeton entered the week ranking sixth in the nation in triples per game, at 0.44. The Tigers also led the league in homers, with 29, homers per game, at 1.07, triples, with 13, total bases, with 378, and slugging percentage, at .519. Princeton and Cornell were first and second in either order in batting average (Cornell .317, Princeton .316) and on-base percentage (Cornell .406, Princeton .404). Individually, the teams have the top two players in the league in OBP, with Karis Ford at .533 and Lauren Holt at .524. Julia Dumais co-led the league in walks (23). Cornell's Emma Harshbarger ranked as the sixth-toughest player in the nation to strike out, with a K every 64 at-bats.Â
• Princeton and Cornell entered the week as the top two teams in the Ivy in RPI, with Princeton at 87 and Cornell at 126.
• Since the resumption from the pandemic pause in Ivy League play in 2022, Princeton has gone 6-3 against Cornell and has taken two of three in each of the three series during those years. Cornell took two of three in each of the first two series since the current three-game format against every team began in 2018. Princeton last won three games in the same season against Cornell in 2016, when the teams were in the Ivy South division and Princeton swept a four-game series.Â
• Princeton now has nine players hitting above .300, with seven doing so while averaging at least two ABs a game in 2024 Ivy League Tournament Most Outstanding Player Karis Ford (.308), 2024 honorable mention All-Ivy (.378), 2024 All-Ivy first-teamers Sonia Zhang (.376), Lauren Sablone (.342) and Julia Dumais (.320), and Graciela Dominguez (.315) and Allie Goodwin (.308). Dominguez's BA is up after hitting .207 at the end of her rookie season last spring, and Goodwin, also a sophomore, is up from .220 at the end of her rookie year. Rookies Braeden Hale (.333) and Jessica Phelps (.323) are hitting above .300 while averaging more than 1 AB/game, and both have heated up recently, with Hale, the reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Week after hitting .571 last week. Since March 14, Hale is 9 of 17 (.529) at the plate with eight of her nine RBI on the season over that time, and Phelps is 8 of 21 (.380) since March 22 with nine of her season's 11 RBI coming during that time.
• In the circle, Brielle Wright leads the Tigers with 72 2/3 IP and has already surpassed her season innings total from 2024, when she set the single-season and career Princeton and Ivy records for saves with 10 last season and 11 for her career. Wright and Cassidy Shaw are Princeton's lead starters, getting the ball to start 24 of the team's 27 games and all nine of the Ivy games, with Wright getting six starts and Shaw three. With rookie Keala Hollenkamp in relief, Princeton's staff has a league-best 2.19 ERA in Ivy play, with all three pitchers between 2.10 (Shaw) and 2.63 (Hollenkamp) in ERA (Wright, 2.19).
• Princeton, the coaches' preseason pick to win the Ivy title, is looking for a fourth straight Ivy title for the first time since winning seven straight from 1983-89. That was also the last time any team won four straight Ivy titles. If the Tigers win the Ivy title, it'd be the team's 23rd, expanding on its lead over Harvard, which has 10. If the NCAA tournament berth follows that, it'd be the program's 13th, also expanding its lead over Harvard, which has eight.Â
• The record for wins in a Ivy League season stands at 18, first set by Princeton in 2008 (18-2) before being equaled by Harvard in 2011 (18-2) and Dartmouth in 2013 (18-2). Since the 21-game schedule began in 2018, Princeton has posted the best record, going 17-4 in 2022.Â
at Cornell (NEW DATES) | Live Stats | Int'l VideoÂ
Sunday, 12:30 p.m. DHÂ | ESPN+ Game 1 | Game 2
Monday, 11:30 a.m. single | ESPN+
• At 8-1, Princeton leads the Ivy by two games over 6-3 Columbia with Harvard, Brown and Dartmouth all tied for third at 5-4, Yale next at 6-6, Cornell at 4-5 and Penn at 0-12. The top four teams will make the Ivy League Tournament, set to be played at the highest seed's home park. Four league weekends remain, with the Tigers at Cornell this weekend and hosting Columbia the following weekend before heading to Penn and then Brown.
• Princeton entered the week ranking sixth in the nation in triples per game, at 0.44. The Tigers also led the league in homers, with 29, homers per game, at 1.07, triples, with 13, total bases, with 378, and slugging percentage, at .519. Princeton and Cornell were first and second in either order in batting average (Cornell .317, Princeton .316) and on-base percentage (Cornell .406, Princeton .404). Individually, the teams have the top two players in the league in OBP, with Karis Ford at .533 and Lauren Holt at .524. Julia Dumais co-led the league in walks (23). Cornell's Emma Harshbarger ranked as the sixth-toughest player in the nation to strike out, with a K every 64 at-bats.Â
• Princeton and Cornell entered the week as the top two teams in the Ivy in RPI, with Princeton at 87 and Cornell at 126.
• Since the resumption from the pandemic pause in Ivy League play in 2022, Princeton has gone 6-3 against Cornell and has taken two of three in each of the three series during those years. Cornell took two of three in each of the first two series since the current three-game format against every team began in 2018. Princeton last won three games in the same season against Cornell in 2016, when the teams were in the Ivy South division and Princeton swept a four-game series.Â
• Princeton now has nine players hitting above .300, with seven doing so while averaging at least two ABs a game in 2024 Ivy League Tournament Most Outstanding Player Karis Ford (.308), 2024 honorable mention All-Ivy (.378), 2024 All-Ivy first-teamers Sonia Zhang (.376), Lauren Sablone (.342) and Julia Dumais (.320), and Graciela Dominguez (.315) and Allie Goodwin (.308). Dominguez's BA is up after hitting .207 at the end of her rookie season last spring, and Goodwin, also a sophomore, is up from .220 at the end of her rookie year. Rookies Braeden Hale (.333) and Jessica Phelps (.323) are hitting above .300 while averaging more than 1 AB/game, and both have heated up recently, with Hale, the reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Week after hitting .571 last week. Since March 14, Hale is 9 of 17 (.529) at the plate with eight of her nine RBI on the season over that time, and Phelps is 8 of 21 (.380) since March 22 with nine of her season's 11 RBI coming during that time.
• In the circle, Brielle Wright leads the Tigers with 72 2/3 IP and has already surpassed her season innings total from 2024, when she set the single-season and career Princeton and Ivy records for saves with 10 last season and 11 for her career. Wright and Cassidy Shaw are Princeton's lead starters, getting the ball to start 24 of the team's 27 games and all nine of the Ivy games, with Wright getting six starts and Shaw three. With rookie Keala Hollenkamp in relief, Princeton's staff has a league-best 2.19 ERA in Ivy play, with all three pitchers between 2.10 (Shaw) and 2.63 (Hollenkamp) in ERA (Wright, 2.19).
• Princeton, the coaches' preseason pick to win the Ivy title, is looking for a fourth straight Ivy title for the first time since winning seven straight from 1983-89. That was also the last time any team won four straight Ivy titles. If the Tigers win the Ivy title, it'd be the team's 23rd, expanding on its lead over Harvard, which has 10. If the NCAA tournament berth follows that, it'd be the program's 13th, also expanding its lead over Harvard, which has eight.Â
• The record for wins in a Ivy League season stands at 18, first set by Princeton in 2008 (18-2) before being equaled by Harvard in 2011 (18-2) and Dartmouth in 2013 (18-2). Since the 21-game schedule began in 2018, Princeton has posted the best record, going 17-4 in 2022.Â
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