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Box Score 2
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell softball team closed the Patriot Classic by salvaging a win on Sunday morning before dropping its third game of the year to host George Mason. The Big Red moved to 3-6 overall after two weekends after an 8-7 triumph over Monmouth and a 5-1 defeat at the hands of the Patriots.
Game One - Box Score (PDF)
Monmouth scored seven runs in the third inning on the first contest, but Cornell fought right back to take an 8-7 victory over the Hawks in Sunday's opener to improve to 3-5 on the year.
Four different Cornell players had multi-hit games, including a 2-for-4 game with a double and home run by sophomore
Meg Parker. Parker also went the distance in the circle, striking out eight. She allowed seven runs and five hits to Monmouth in the third, but no runs and just five hits in the other six innings to even her record at 2-2 on the season. Parker's fourth inning home run got the Big Red back off the mat after Monmouth had erased the Big Red's 3-0 lead with its own big inning.
A four-run fifth inning ended up being the difference, with a two-out, two-run single by Edwards going down as the game winning hit.
Parker closed out the win in the seventh, though not without some drama. A single through the right side, a walk, a passed ball and another walk gave Monmouth a chance to tie or win the game, but Parker struck out the next two batters and induced a flyout to end the game.
Game Two - Box Score (PDF)
George Mason scored four runs in the first two frames and never allowed Cornell back in the game, holding off the Big Red 5-1 in the third meeting between the teams in three days.
The Big Red had five total hits from five different players, with Edwards driving in the lone run with a double in the fourth inning. The Patriots answered back in the bottom of the fourth to extend it back to a four-run deficit for the Big Red. Cornell left the bases loaded in the fifth and stranded two more runners in the sixth.
Alyson Onyon fell to 0-2 on the year despite going the distance
