Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 EMMITSBURG, Md. – The Cornell softball team split a doubleheader with Mount St. Mary's on Sunday afternoon, jumping out to early leads in both contests and holding off a late Mounties rally in the nightcap to salvage a win. The Big Red won game two 9-7 after losing the opener 8-5 to move to 3-8 on the year.

The Big Red scored four times in the second and five more in the fourth to pick up the team's third win of the season, holding off the Mounties for the two-run win. Junior Meg Parker picked up a win in the circle in game two, her first of the season, after blasting her first homer of the year in game one.

Emily Weinberg was 3-for-5 with a pair of RBI, while the game's key hit came in the form of a bases loaded triple by Leanne Iannucci in the fourth to put the visitors up 9-2. Cornell weathered the storm late, stranding the bases loaded in the seventh inning.

Parker picked up her first win of the season in the circle with a complete game, scattering 11 hits and five walks while allowing just four earned runs.

Weinberg and Rebecca Kubena each had two-run singles in the second and Parker helped her cause with a two-run double to right center in the fourth.

Freshman Karlie Mellott had a hit in both games of the doubleheader to extend her streak to 11 games to open her career.

In the game one defeat, Cornell took the lead three different times, only to have the Mounties tie on the first two occasions and taking its first lead in the fourth after the Big Red went up 4-3.

Parker and Michiko McGivney hit back-to-back home runs in the first to take the lead, added single runs in the third and fourth to go ahead, then a single run in the seventh while trying to rally. The Big Red brought the tying run to the plate in the final frame, but couldn't rally.