PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Cornell pitching allowed just four hits and the Big Red earned its first 1-0 shutout win in five years with a pitcher's duel victory over Brown on Sunday afternoon at Brown Softball Field. The Big Red improved to 11-14 (6-3 Ivy), while the Bears fell to 8-17 (2-7 Ivy).

Lisa Nelson started and allowed just two hits over three innings before Katie Lew pitched the final four frames, also surrendering two hits. The combined shutout moved the Big Red into a second place tie in the league standings with Dartmouth at 6-3, 1.5 games behind first-place Harvard.

Rebecca Kubena and Kate Jencarelli both had two hits, with Tori Togashi driving in the only run of the day in the second with a one-out sacrifice fly. Her fly ball to center brought in Jencarelli, who led off the inning with a double and went to third on a wild pitch.

The Bears had a number of opportunities to knot the score, including in the seventh, but Lew stranded the tying run at third. She also stranded a pair of runners in the fourth after Nelson walked the first two batters of the inning.

Cornell will continue what is now a 16-game road trip when it heads to Hamilton to face Central New York rival Colgate on Tuesday, April 10 at 4 p.m.