Game 1 Box Score (Cornell 8, Princeton 1)
Game 2 Box Score (Cornell 7, Princeton 4)

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell softball team clinched the Ivy League South Division championship for the second straight year after sweeping a doubleheader from Princeton on Friday afternoon at Niemand*Robison Field. The Big Red guaranteed itself a spot in next weekend's Ivy playoff with an 8-1 win in game one and a 7-4 triumph in game two. Cornell, which entered the day a full game ahead of North Division leader Harvard for homefield advantage, improved to 32-11 with the win (16-2 Ivy League).

Cornell hit .381 as a team in the two games, with both Ashley Garvey and Shannon Crane collecting five hits on the day. Vanessa Leonhard drove in four. The Big Red also did not commit an error in the two contests.

The Big Red clinced the division title with the in game one, powering past the Tigers 8-1. Princeton took the lead on a pair of first inning doubles, the first landing after the ball was lost in the sun. Cornell wasn't able to break through until the third, scoring three runs, then adding four more in the fourth to take an insurmountable lead. Elizabeth Dalrymple cruised from there, scattering two hits and two walks in the final six innings in shutting the door on Princeton. She picked up the complete game victory, surrendering four hits and one run in her seven innings on the mound. Dalrymple struck out nine, including five of the Big Red's first six outs.

Garvey was 4-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored as Cornell pounded out 13 hits. Elise Menaker was 2-for-4 with a double, a home run and two RBI, while Shannon Crane added two hits and Vanessa Leonhard drove in three runs.

Game two saw the Tigers score four in the first, but the home team chipped away. After getting one run back in the bottom of the frame, Menaker came through with an RBI single. Cornell then cut it to 4-3 with two runs on the second on consecutive run-scoring singles by Alyson Intihar and Shannon Crane. A three-run third put Cornell in the driver's seat at 6-4, with Intihar and Crane again driving in the runs. Cornell added one more run in the fourth with a Leonhard double. Lauren Marx made it stand up, allowing just two hits over the final 4.0 innings to earn the win in the circle. At the top of the lineup, Intihar and Crane combined to go 6-for-8 with five RBI and two runs scored.

The Big Red can clinch homefield in the conference's best-of-three series with a doubleheader sweep over the Tigers on Sunday, or with a win and a Harvard loss in its four-game series against Dartmouth.