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Jenny Edwards. home run celebration

More Bonus Softball As Sweep Sends Big Red Into Divisional Playoff

4/29/2012 5:29:00 PM

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Game 1 Box Score (PDF)
Game 2 Box Score (PDF)

PRINCETON, N.J. -- Cornell team did all the little things to make sure it would get to play some extra softball. The Big Red, behind the plastic arm of sophomore Alyson Onyon, swept Princeton on Sunday afternoon to clinch a share its fourth straight Ivy League South Division title. The two teams will have a one-game playoff this coming weekend in Philadelphia for the right to play North Division champ Harvard in the Ivy League championship series.

After posting a 2-1, 14-inning victory in game on on Saturday, the two teams went 10 innings in game one on Sunday, with the Big Red again taking home a 2-1 triumph. Cornell won game two 6-0 to improve to 24-21 (15-5 Ivy). Penn will host the playoff after winning three of four games against the Big Red last weekend in Philadelphia,

The first contest was again a tremendous pitching dual between Cornell's Onyon and Princeton's Alex Peyton, who each went all 14 innings in Saturday's first game. This time, they each went 10 innings. Onyon scattered five hits and a walk while surrendering just one earned run. She also struck out five. She allowed just five hits in the complete game victory in game two, picking up her third shoutout of the season. For the weekend, Onyon allowed just two earned runs in 31 innings over three complete game victories.

Cornell scratched out 11 hits in the game one victoru, with Lauren Bucolo's 4-for-5 effort leading the way. The scored the team's first run in the fourth after a double, then plated the go-ahead run with a two-out double in the 10th to send the Bgi Red on to the victory. Christina Villalon, Jenny Edwards and Clare Feely also had two hits apiece in game one.

An RBI single by senior Erin Keene in the first inning of game two held up, and Cornell cruised to victory in large part due to Edwards' three-run homer in the third, her Ivy League-leading ninth blast of the season. Kristen Towne drove in runs in both the fifth and seventh innings as insurance as the Big Red secured the doubleheader sweep.

The Big Red will return to action on Wednesday, May 2 when it closes out non-conference competition against Binghamton. First pitch for the doubleheader will commence at 3:30 p.m.
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