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PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – No lead seemed safe all afternoon as Cornell and Penn battled in Ivy League softball, but the defending champion Quakers were able to escape with a pair of 9-8 victories over the big Red on Sunday afternoon at Penn Park. Cornell dropped to 13-19 (5-5 Ivy), while the Quakers improved to 12-15 (7-4 Ivy) with the sweep.

On Saturday, any lead was safe. Penn took game one 9-0, then Cornell answered with a 9-0 victory of its own in game two. On Sunday, Cornell held leads of two runs or more three times, Penn did it once. None of them held up.

Game 1 – Box Score (PDF)
Cornell had leads of 2-0, 7-2 and 8-7, but the defending Ivy champion Quakers were able to rally for the tying run in the fifth and scored a two-out run on a walk-off single in the eighth to capture the victory.

Michiko McGivney was 2-for-4 with a home run and Jenny Edwards added a pair of hits, but four Big Red errors sunk the opportunity to steal game one.

Meg Parker got the Big Red off to a good start with a two-run shot in the first inning to stake the visitors to a lead. After Penn tied it up with single runs in the first and second, Cornell put five on the board in the third.  The big blow came on a Leanne Iannucci two-run single to cap the scoring. All five of Cornell's runs in the inning were unearned. Penn answered to tie it in the bottom of the inning.

McGivney again put Cornell up, this time with a solo homer to lead off the fourth, but Penn tied it up an inning later and neither team would be able to score heading into extra innings.

Taylor Goodin hit a two-out double in the eighth to put the go-ahead run in scoring position, but a pair of singles and a throwing error plated the winning run for Penn in the bottom of the frame.

Game Two – Box Score (PDF)
Cornell again jumped on the Quakers with two in the first, but after Penn scored four in the bottom half of the inning, it was the Big Red who clawed back into it.

The Big Red jumped out 2-0 on a run-scoring groundout that ended in a Penn throwing error and a two-out RBI single by Sophie Giaquinto. A Meg Parker RBI single in the second and a Leanne Iannucci RBI double in the third tied the contest at 4-4. Cornell then scored three in the fifth and one in the sixth, but the Quakers matched each time. Michiko McGivney's two-run double highlighted the fifth and a solo shot by Jenny Edwards provided the offense in the sixth.

Penn scored the tying and go-ahead runs in the bottom of the sixth to sweep the doubleheader and win three of four games in the series.

Michiko McGivney was 2-for-5 with a pair of RBI and Leanne Iannucci, Meg Parker, Sophie Giaquinto and Chloe Pendergast also had two hits apiece as Cornell pounded out 12 hits in game two and 21 total on the afternoon against a Penn pitching staff ranked among the top on the Ivy League.