Game 1 Box Score (Cornell 3, Yale 0)
Game 2 Box Score (Cornell 7, Yale 3)

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The Cornell softball team got three RBI from freshman Kristen Towne and a dominant effort on the mound from junior Elizabeth Dalrymple to sweep a doubleheader at Yale on Saturday, knocking off the Bulldogs 3-0 and 7-3 at Dewitt Family Field. The Big Red improved to 19-8 (5-1 Ivy) with the sweep, while Yale slipped to 6-17 (2-4 Ivy).

Towne joined senior Vanessa Leonhard and Elise Menaker in claiming three hits on the day for the defending Ivy League champions, while Lauren Marx picked up the win in the nightcap to move to 6-2 on the season. Towne delivered two of the three runs in the game one shutout, then drove in a third run in the game two victory.

Cornell scored in each of the first two innings in game two and jumped out to a 7-1 lead in the sixth before allowing a pair of late runs. Dalrymple came in and shut the door with 1.1 innings of relief work. She gave up a pair of hits, but didn't allow a run in helping Cornell to its fifth win in six Ivy contests.

A Shannon Crane two-run single in the second extended a 1-0 Big Red lead to 3-0, then both Devon March and Leonhard had run-scoring singles in the fifth. An Ashley Garvey double in the sixth drove in a pair and rounded out Cornell's scoring.

Dalrymple continued her Ivy League mastery with a complete game shutout, striking out 13 without issuing a walk. So far in three Ivy contests, Dalrymple is 3-0 with a 2.00 ERA with 40 strikeouts and just one walk in 22.1 innings of work. She set the tone in the first, striking out the side, then pulled the trick again in the third. She didn't allow a baserunner until she surrendered back-to-back singles in the fourth and never allowed a runner to advance past second base all afternoon.

Cornell got all the runs in would need with one in the third, with Towne's single providing all the offense the visitors would need to score Shannon Crane from third. The Big Red added two insurance runs in the fifth on a bases loaded walk by Towne and a bases loaded wild pitch rounding out the scoring.

The Big Red will close out the weekend when it visits Brown on Sunday at 12:30 p.m.