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Cornell dugout vs. Harvard, 2018
John Lukach
2
Harvard HARV 9-10, 2-2 Ivy
6
Winner Cornell COR 6-8, 1-0 Ivy
Harvard HARV
9-10, 2-2 Ivy
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Final
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Cornell COR
6-8, 1-0 Ivy
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Harvard HARV 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 0
Cornell COR 0 0 0 1 5 0 X 6 11 1

W: Nelson, Lisa (3-3) L: Duncan,Kathleen (6-7)

Game Recap: Softball |

Big 5th Inning vs. Harvard Makes Winner of Nelson, Softball

ITHACA, N.Y. – A five-run fifth inning put the Big Red into the lead and Lisa Nelson did the rest as Cornell knocked off Harvard 6-2 on Sunday afternoon at Niemand*Robison Field. The home team won its Ivy opener for the third time in the last four years in improving to 6-8 (1-0 Ivy). The Crimson dropped to 9-10 (2-2 Ivy).

Nelson was excellent in picking up her third win of the season in the circle. In control from beginning to end, she allowed seven hits and struck out eight in the complete game victory. She surrendered two runs, only on earned, and escaped a pair of jams that proved decisive at the end of the day and allowed Cornell to get to its big offensive ending with the contest tied.

Megan Murray was 2-for-4 with a pair of RBI, Rebecca Kubena stayed hot with a 2-for-4 afternoon and Erin Rockstroh was a perfect 2-for-2. Kubena and Rockstroh both had doubles as Cornell pounded out 11 hits.

Maddy Kaplan was 2-for-4 with an RBI, upping her season average to .469. Kathleen Duncan took the hard-luck loss, surrendering just two runs in four innings of work.

Harvard scored an early run on a bases-loaded catcher's interference call in the second inning. Nelson was able to stand the bases loaded to prevent a big inning. The Big Red scratched together the tying run in the fourth with a little two-out magic from freshman Brianna Straley, whose first hit at home drove in Erin Rockstroh from second to tie the game.

Cornell scored five runs in the fifth thanks to five hits and a pair of hit batters. Kubena opened the frame with a ground-run double and Madeline Avery was hit by a pitch. Tori Togashi put the Big Red into the lead for good with a single through the right side, and two batters later Rockstroh singled to make it 3-1. Kate Jencarelli had a pinch-hit RBI single in her first home at bat and Megan Murray punctuated the inning by driving in two with a two-out single.

Harvard made some noise in the seventh, scoring once and bringing the tying run to the plate, but a head's up play by Rockstroh, tagging an advancing runner from second before firing to first for a double play, ended the game and handed Cornell its first Ivy win.

The teams will again suit up on Monday, March 26 beginning at 12:30 p.m. for a doubleheader at Niemand*Robison Field.  

 
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