Princeton University Athletics
Friday, April 3
Princeton, N.J.
4:00 PM
Princeton University
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Brown
Graciela Dominguez and the Tigers will host Brown this weekend.
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Softball to Host Brown Friday, Saturday
April 02, 2026 | Softball
With a 6-0 Ivy League record and a three-game lead in the Ivy standings, the Princeton softball team will return home this weekend to face the defending Ivy League Tournament champions from Brown.
The series will be played Friday and Saturday, changing from Saturday and Sunday due to weather.
vs. Brown | Int'l Video | Live Stats | Team Yearbook | Free Admission
Friday, 4 p.m. single | ESPN+Â
Saturday, 12:30 p.m. doubleheader | ESPN+ Game 1 | Game 2
On Princeton: The Tigers (16-10, 6-0) have built a three-game lead in the Ivy League standings after sweeping Cornell and Columbia to start. Fifteen games remain in the league, with Brown and Penn coming to Cynthia Lynn Paul '94 Field over the next two weekends. Penn, Harvard, Brown and Dartmouth are all at 3-3. Heading into the weekend, Princeton leads the Ivy League in doubles (49), doubles per game (1.88), fielding percentage (.977), fewest hit batters by the pitching staff (six), hits (248), RBI (141), shutouts (three), lowest WHIP for the pitching staff (1.56), and winning percentage (.615). Individually, the Tigers had the league leaders in doubles (Julia Dumais, 12), doubles per game (Dumais, 0.46, seventh nationally), times hit by pitch (Dumais, 10), hit by pitch per game (Dumais, 0.38), saves (Brielle Wright and Reece Uehara, two each), shutouts (Uehara, two), triples (Sonia Zhang, four), and triples per game (Zhang, 0.15).
On Brown: The Bears are 10-14 overall and 3-3 in the Ivy League, entering the weekend after taking two of three from Yale in New Haven. The team leads the Ivy League in fewest hits allowed per seven innings (7.85). Individually, Macy Borowski leads the Ivy in complete games (10), innings pitched (87.2), and strikeouts (84), and Lily Burns leads having caught six runners stealing. Cameron Zytkewicz Ray leads the team with a .323 batting average with Borowski at .319, and Borowski has thrown nearly 60 percent of the team's 146 1/3 innings, holding a 3.27 ERA. Brown represented the Ivy League in the NCAA tournament last year, battling Texas Tech (6-0 defeat) and Washington (13-5 defeat) in the team's first NCAA appearance since 1997.Â
Series history: The all-time series is slanted in favor of the Tigers 66-22-1, but it's been much closer recently. Princeton swept the three-game series from Brown in 2022, and since then, Princeton took two of three in Providence in 2023, Brown took two of three in Princeton in 2024, and though Princeton took two of three from the Bears in Providence last year, when the Ivy League Tournament came to Cynthia Paul Field, Brown delivered the Tigers both of their losses. The Bears went right through the field in the tournament, opening with the win over Princeton, then dealing Columbia its first loss while Princeton rallied back by knocking out Harvard and the Lions over their next two games before Brown clinched the title and the NCAA bid with Princeton's second loss. Princeton head coach Lisa Van Ackeren is tied in Ivy League annals with Brown's winningest head coach, Phil Pincince, at 269 wins, and would pass Pincince for fifth in Ivy history with a win this weekend. In last season's five games between the teams, Princeton saw Graciela Dominguez hit .500 (7-14) while Julia Dumais hit .467 (7-15) with Princeton hitting .266 as a team. Brielle Wright threw 17 2/3 of the 33 2/3 innings across the five games, going 1-2 with a 3.57 ERA while Keala Hollenkamp was 1-0 with a 2.00 ERA and Cassidy Shaw was 0-1 with a 3.11 ERA. Brown hit .214 as a team in those five games, and now-graduated Laurel Moody hit .438 (7-16), hitting the team's lone home run in those games. Zytkewicz Ray and Abby Bettencourt hit .308 (each 4-13). In the circle, now-graduated Alexis Guevara threw 25 of the 35 innings, holding a 2.52 ERA with a 3-1 record, while Annie Finch threw four scoreless innings, Macy Borowski threw one scoreless inning, and Edie Cobb accounted for the remaining five innings. Brown had a 3.20 ERA against the Tigers last season.
The Ivy title run: Princeton has won the last four Ivy League titles, which are decided on regular-season play, and has hosted the last four Ivy League postseasons, including the 2022 Ivy League Playoff Series (winning two of three from Harvard), the 2023 Ivy League Tournament (made final, which Harvard won), the 2024 Ivy League Tournament (won), and the 2025 Ivy League Tournament (made final, which Brown won). Only one other time in Ivy League history has a team won at least four Ivy League titles in a row, and that was Princeton as well, which won seven straight from 1983-89.
Coaching staff: Princeton head coach Lisa Van Ackeren is in her 14th season at Princeton and is the dean of the current Ivy League coaches. All-time, Van Ackeren is the second-winningest coach in program history and is now tied for the fifth-winningest head coach in Ivy League history, at 269 wins, alongside former Brown coach Phil Pincince. The top four, all former coaches in the league, are Harvard's Jenny Allard (688), Cornell's Dick Blood (623), Princeton's Cindy Cohen (559) and Penn's Leslie King (354). Princeton has won six of the nine Ivy League Coach/Coaching Staff of the Year honors since the award was inaugurated in 2015, including 2016, 2017, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 (no award in 2020 or 2021). Assistant coach Alyssa Davis is entering her seventh season, Ashley McDonald her second, and Nicole Arias her 12th.Â
The series will be played Friday and Saturday, changing from Saturday and Sunday due to weather.
vs. Brown | Int'l Video | Live Stats | Team Yearbook | Free Admission
Friday, 4 p.m. single | ESPN+Â
Saturday, 12:30 p.m. doubleheader | ESPN+ Game 1 | Game 2
On Princeton: The Tigers (16-10, 6-0) have built a three-game lead in the Ivy League standings after sweeping Cornell and Columbia to start. Fifteen games remain in the league, with Brown and Penn coming to Cynthia Lynn Paul '94 Field over the next two weekends. Penn, Harvard, Brown and Dartmouth are all at 3-3. Heading into the weekend, Princeton leads the Ivy League in doubles (49), doubles per game (1.88), fielding percentage (.977), fewest hit batters by the pitching staff (six), hits (248), RBI (141), shutouts (three), lowest WHIP for the pitching staff (1.56), and winning percentage (.615). Individually, the Tigers had the league leaders in doubles (Julia Dumais, 12), doubles per game (Dumais, 0.46, seventh nationally), times hit by pitch (Dumais, 10), hit by pitch per game (Dumais, 0.38), saves (Brielle Wright and Reece Uehara, two each), shutouts (Uehara, two), triples (Sonia Zhang, four), and triples per game (Zhang, 0.15).
On Brown: The Bears are 10-14 overall and 3-3 in the Ivy League, entering the weekend after taking two of three from Yale in New Haven. The team leads the Ivy League in fewest hits allowed per seven innings (7.85). Individually, Macy Borowski leads the Ivy in complete games (10), innings pitched (87.2), and strikeouts (84), and Lily Burns leads having caught six runners stealing. Cameron Zytkewicz Ray leads the team with a .323 batting average with Borowski at .319, and Borowski has thrown nearly 60 percent of the team's 146 1/3 innings, holding a 3.27 ERA. Brown represented the Ivy League in the NCAA tournament last year, battling Texas Tech (6-0 defeat) and Washington (13-5 defeat) in the team's first NCAA appearance since 1997.Â
Series history: The all-time series is slanted in favor of the Tigers 66-22-1, but it's been much closer recently. Princeton swept the three-game series from Brown in 2022, and since then, Princeton took two of three in Providence in 2023, Brown took two of three in Princeton in 2024, and though Princeton took two of three from the Bears in Providence last year, when the Ivy League Tournament came to Cynthia Paul Field, Brown delivered the Tigers both of their losses. The Bears went right through the field in the tournament, opening with the win over Princeton, then dealing Columbia its first loss while Princeton rallied back by knocking out Harvard and the Lions over their next two games before Brown clinched the title and the NCAA bid with Princeton's second loss. Princeton head coach Lisa Van Ackeren is tied in Ivy League annals with Brown's winningest head coach, Phil Pincince, at 269 wins, and would pass Pincince for fifth in Ivy history with a win this weekend. In last season's five games between the teams, Princeton saw Graciela Dominguez hit .500 (7-14) while Julia Dumais hit .467 (7-15) with Princeton hitting .266 as a team. Brielle Wright threw 17 2/3 of the 33 2/3 innings across the five games, going 1-2 with a 3.57 ERA while Keala Hollenkamp was 1-0 with a 2.00 ERA and Cassidy Shaw was 0-1 with a 3.11 ERA. Brown hit .214 as a team in those five games, and now-graduated Laurel Moody hit .438 (7-16), hitting the team's lone home run in those games. Zytkewicz Ray and Abby Bettencourt hit .308 (each 4-13). In the circle, now-graduated Alexis Guevara threw 25 of the 35 innings, holding a 2.52 ERA with a 3-1 record, while Annie Finch threw four scoreless innings, Macy Borowski threw one scoreless inning, and Edie Cobb accounted for the remaining five innings. Brown had a 3.20 ERA against the Tigers last season.
The Ivy title run: Princeton has won the last four Ivy League titles, which are decided on regular-season play, and has hosted the last four Ivy League postseasons, including the 2022 Ivy League Playoff Series (winning two of three from Harvard), the 2023 Ivy League Tournament (made final, which Harvard won), the 2024 Ivy League Tournament (won), and the 2025 Ivy League Tournament (made final, which Brown won). Only one other time in Ivy League history has a team won at least four Ivy League titles in a row, and that was Princeton as well, which won seven straight from 1983-89.
Coaching staff: Princeton head coach Lisa Van Ackeren is in her 14th season at Princeton and is the dean of the current Ivy League coaches. All-time, Van Ackeren is the second-winningest coach in program history and is now tied for the fifth-winningest head coach in Ivy League history, at 269 wins, alongside former Brown coach Phil Pincince. The top four, all former coaches in the league, are Harvard's Jenny Allard (688), Cornell's Dick Blood (623), Princeton's Cindy Cohen (559) and Penn's Leslie King (354). Princeton has won six of the nine Ivy League Coach/Coaching Staff of the Year honors since the award was inaugurated in 2015, including 2016, 2017, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 (no award in 2020 or 2021). Assistant coach Alyssa Davis is entering her seventh season, Ashley McDonald her second, and Nicole Arias her 12th.Â
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