Game One Box Score (Cornell 8, Harvard 4)
Game Two Box Score (Harvard 7, Cornell 6)

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell softball team split a Saturday afternoon Ivy League doubleheader with Harvard, topping the Crimson 8-4 in game one before having its 14-game conference home win streak snapped in game two, 7-6. The Big Red remain in first place in the Ivy League South Division with a 3-1 record (15-8 overall), while the Crimson moved their record to 9-15 (3-1 Ivy).

Both Kristen Towne and Alyson Intihar collected three hits on the day, with Erica Gaeta and Ali Tomlinson each slamming a home run in game one's victory. Elizabeth Dalrymple, with the exception of one inning, was brilliant in picking up the game one win. She struck out 12 without a walk in going the distance, giving her 26 strikeouts and just one walk in two victories on the weekend.

In game one, Cornell jumped out to a 5-0 lead after four innings. The Big Red took advantage of a pair of errors in the third to plate three unearned runs, then got a pinch-hit bomb by Gaeta with one out in the fourth to back that up. A Jessica Ferri three-run shot by Harvard keyed a four-run fifth to get the visitors back within a run, but Tomlinson changed the momentum back in the bottom of the inning with a two-run shot with two outs. The big Red added an insurance run in the sixth on a hard-hit single by Devon March.

Game two was a much different story, as Cornell climbed out of a 3-0 hole and took a 6-3 lead by knocking Harvard ace Heather Brown out of the game in the third. The Crimson tied the game at 6-6 in the fourth, and a solo homer by Jessica Shaw, her second bomb of the game, proved to be the difference. Cornell couldn't get anything going in the final three innings and the Crimson held on for the win.

Cornell returns to action in non-conference play on Wednesday, April 7 against Albany at 3:30 p.m. at Niemand*Robison Field.