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PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – The Cornell softball team remained in first place in the Ivy League South Division standings after splitting a doubleheader with Penn on Saturday afternoon at Penn Park, with each team earning 9-0, five-inning wins. The Quakers took game one, but the Big Red answered right back in the nightcap.

Cornell moved its record to 13-17 overall (5-3 Ivy), while the defending ivy champion Quakers fell to 10-15 (5-4 Ivy).

Game One – Box Score (PDF)
Penn exploded for eight second inning runs and cruised to a 9-0 win in five innings. The Big Red could muster just two hits in the contest, as Jessica Bigbie and Jenny Edwards both collected singles.

Alexis Borden was in control in the circle in game two, striking out four without issuing a walk to pick up the complete game shutout. Alexis Sargent hit a three-run homer in the second to spearhead the Penn offense.

Game Two – Box Score (PDF)
Meg Parker and Chloe Pendergast homered and Cornell ran right past the Quakers in game two, matching Penn's 9-0 five-inning win in game one with one of their own. The Big Red scored three in the first, four in the second and two in the fourth and Alyson Onyon did the rest.

Onyon allowed just two harmless singles, one in the first and another in the fifth, and scattered four walks while striking out four in improving to 6-6 on the season with her third shutout of the year.

Parker blasted her team-leading fourth longball of the season with one out in the first to stake the visitors to a 2-0 lead, and after a Jessica Bigbie single and a Jenny Edwards double, Sophie Giaquinto drove in the third run of the inning with a sacrifice fly.

The offense was back at it in the second, with Chloe Pendergast hitting a solo homer to open the frame and two singles, an error, a sacrifice fly and a wild pitch pushed the Big Red near run-rule territory. Senior Christina Villalon took care of that with a two-out, two-run single in the fourth to make it 9-0.

Michiko McGivney was 3-for-4, while Bigbie, Parker, Pendergast and Weinberg also had multi-hit days in game two as Cornell put 14 hits on the board.