Game 1 Box Score (Cornell 4, Ithaca 2)
Game 2 Box Score (Cornell 6, Ithaca 3 - 8 innings)

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell softball team kept its hot play going, rallying twice for a win in game two to complete a doubleheader sweep of Ithaca College on Wednesday afternoon at Kostrinsky Field. Cornell won game one 5-2, then took the nightcap 6-3 in eight innings. The Big Red improved to 24-18-1, while Ithaca slipped to 21-9.

Freshman Jenny Edwards slammed a walk-off three run homer in the eighth inning after her big single in the seventh inning played a big role in sending the game into extra innings. She finished the game 2-for-5 with the three RBI. The trio of Jenna Stoller, Lauren Marx and Ali Tomlinson controlled the Bombers after the home team was able to scratch together two runs in the first inning. The Bombers led 2-1 virtually the entire game until Marissa Amiraian, who opened the frame by beating out a routine grounder to short for a hit, scored on a ground ball to second.

The Big Red, who played as the home team due to rough field conditions at Niemand*Robison Field, then surrendered a run to the Bombers in the top of the eighth to put IC back up, this time at 3-2. Using the international tiebreaker, Ali Tomlinson opened the inning at second. An error by the first baseman on what appeared to be a groundout put runners on first and third with one out. Amiraian was walked to load the bases, and after a pop up for the second out, a wild pitch plated Tomlinson to tie the game. Two pitches later, Edwards got a hold of a pitch and drove in just inside the leftfield fair pole to end the game.

Tomlinson allowed just one hit and an unearned run to pick up the win out of the bullpen after Stoller (4.1 IP, four hits, one earned run, five strikeouts) and Marx (0.2 hitless IP, one strikeout) had kept IC at bay.

The second game theatrics were in stark contrast to game one, where senior Elizabeth Dalrymple scatted seven hits while striking out nine, controlling the game despite a narrow 5-2 final. Cornell had just six hits, but made nearly every scoring chance count. Freshman Lauren Bucolo was 2-for-2 with a home run and two RBI. A three-run fourth lifted the Big Red to the win, breaking a 1-1 tie with an RBI groundout by Erica Gaeta. The final two runs scored on a passed ball and wild pitch. Cornell added an insurance run in the sixth after the Bombers had snuck back to within 4-2, with Conklin scoring on an RBI single by Bucolo, who homered to lead off the third to give the Big Red a lead.

Cornell will head to Princeton for a doubleheader on Friday, April 29.