Softball Team Sweeps Weekend from Penn, Stands 12-0 in Ivy

Sunday, April 12

Princeton, N.J.

12:30 PM

Princeton University

22-10, 12-0

Penn

15-19, 6-6

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Penn	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	3	9	1
Princeton	0	4	1	0	0	2	X	7	13	0

Princeton improved to 12-0 in the Ivy League by completing a weekend sweep of Penn on Sunday.

Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast

Softball Team Sweeps Weekend from Penn, Stands 12-0 in Ivy

April 12, 2026 | Softball

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Sweeping its fourth consecutive Ivy League weekend to start the 2026 conference campaign, the Princeton softball team defeated Penn 7-3 on Sunday at Cynthia Lynn Paul '94 Field to take a perfect Ivy record into the back half of the league season.

Now 12-0 in the Ivy, Princeton holds a four-game lead over Harvard (8-4), with Columbia five back (7-5) and Penn six back (6-6). The Quakers are a game and a half up on Cornell (6-9), two up on both Brown (4-8) and Dartmouth (4-8) and 3 1/2 up on Yale (4-11) for the last Ivy League Tournament spot heading into the final three Ivy weekends.

Next weekend will be the first of two consecutive weekends on the road for the Tigers, who will head to Yale and then Harvard as they look to keep the perfect Ivy run going and move closer to sealing up their fifth straight Ivy League title and hosting the Ivy League Tournament.

It's the third 12-0 Ivy start in program history for Princeton, which also started, and finished, 12-0 in 1995, the first year the Ivy played 12 league games, as well as in 2008, when the team started 14-0 on the way to an 18-2 record, setting an Ivy wins record that Harvard (2011) and Dartmouth (2013) later matched. The Tigers' current run is the best start for any team since the league went to seven three-game series ahead of the 2018 season.

A four-run second inning on Sunday gave Princeton a lead, and though Penn threatened, the Quakers never closed the gap. That inning saw Princeton put two on with a walk to Julieta Roa and a Jessica Phelps base hit before Maddie Ratcheson brought home a run with a sacrifice fly, Sonia Zhang singled home another run, and after a Graciela Dominguez walk, Julia Dumais drove home two with a base hit to make it 4-0.

Penn had four hits in the third to pull within 4-3, but the Tigers added from there, using a Mia Valenzuela leadoff double and a Roa single to set the table for a Phelps grounder that picked up a run to make it 5-3, and two more runs in the sixth saw Princeton push the lead to 7-3. Two base hits and a stolen base set up a Dumais ground ball RBI, and after two hits and an error loaded the bases, Abby Hornberger picked up an RBI on a hit-by-pitch for the game's final run.

Reece Uehara (3 2/3 innings), Cassidy Shaw (two innings) and Brielle Wright (1 1/3 innings) split time in the circle, with Shaw and Wright getting the win and the save and neither allowing a run.

Princeton will have its final regular-season non-conference games on Wednesday, hosting Monmouth for a 4:30 p.m. doubleheader.