ITHACA, N.Y. -- Junior Bridgette Rooney hit a walk-off three-run home run to cap the 2019 home season and deliver the Cornell softball team a series win over Princeton with a 4-3 win on Sunday afternoon at Niemand-Robison Field. The Big Red improved to 10-32 (5-13 Ivy), while the Tigers dropped to 14-24 (10-8 Ivy).

Rooney's 23rd career home run moved her into sixth on the school's career list and gave the Big Red its second Ivy series win of the year. The win capped a rally from down 3-1 entering the seventh and made a winner out of Katie Lew, who allowed just two hits and no runs over the game's final three innings. Ashley Delany, who doubled at the plate, surrendered four hits and three runs over the game's first four frames to keep Cornell in the game early.

Miranda Lawson was 2-for-3 with a walk and got the winning rally started with a double to open the seventh. Emily McKinney added a single, her second of the game, before Rooney's no-doubter to centerfield.

Allie Reynolds held Cornell at bay throughout until the seventh, taking the hard-luck loss after scattering eight hits over 6.1 innings of work. Kaitlyn Waslawski was 2-for-4 and Hannah Lutz added a pair of hits with both driving in a run at the plate for the Tigers.

Princeton broke through with two runs in the second inning thanks to an RBI triple by Waslawski and a run-scoring squeeze bunt by Alex Viscusi. The Big Red got a run back in the third on a bases loaded walk by Hanna Crist after a great at bat that featured five pitched fouled off with two strikes, but the Big Red left the bases packed. The Tigers added an insurance run in the fourth with a Lutz single plating Waslawski, who singled and stole second to get into scoring position. 

The pitching otherwise held the offenses down, stranding 17 baserunners between the teams before Rooney cleared the bases in the seventh for the win.

The Big Red will close out its non-conference schedule when it visits Syracuse on Wednesday, May 1 at 4 p.m. for a single game.