CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The Cornell softball team dropped a Friday afternoon Ivy League doubleheader at perennial conference power Harvard, falling 7-0 in game one before suffering a 5-3 defeat in the nightcap. The Big Red slipped to 8-13 (2-4 Ivy) with the two losses, while Harvard improved to 12-15 (3-3 Ivy) with the wins.

Game One
Harvard scored three runs in both the first and second innings and that was enough as the Crimson pitching did the rest. Laura Ricciardone scattered six hits to pick up her sixth win of the season with the shutout.

Freshman Megan Murray was 2-for-3 and sophomore Jessica Bigbie was 1-for-3 with a double in the loss. Sierra Stone was solid in relief, allowing just one run and one hit in three innings.

Game Two
Cornell struck first with two runs in the third and tied it up at 3-3 in the fifth, but the Crimson was able to regain the lead both times and held on for a 5-3 triumph.

Emily Weinberg was 3-for-3 and both Michiko McGivney and Karlie Mellott had two hits apiece. Mellott had her 16-game hit streak snapped in game one, ending the second-longest hit streak in school history and the longest by any Cornell player to begin a career. The Big Red had 10 total hits, with Meg Parker slamming her second home run of the seaosn to get Cornell on the board.

Ricciardone earned a win in game two in relief, giving her a pair of victories on the day. She shut the door on the Big Red, allowing just two hits over the final 2.1 innings of work. She stranded the tying run on base in the seventh after the Big Red