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Maxine McCraw of the Cornell Big Red softball team poses for team, group and individual photos during media day on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021 at Niemand-Robison Softball Field in Ithaca, NY.
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UMass Lowell UML 11-6
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Winner Cornell COR 2-6
UMass Lowell UML
11-6
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Final
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Cornell COR
2-6
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
UMass Lowell UML 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 7 1
Cornell COR 1 0 0 1 1 0 X 3 4 1

W: McCraw, Maxine (2-0) L: White, Ryley (7-1)

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Cornell COR 2-7
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Winner Penn State PSU 12-11
Cornell COR
2-7
2
Final
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Penn State PSU
12-11
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Cornell COR 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 1
Penn State PSU 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 6 1

W: Parshall, B. (8-3) L: Burd, Mia (0-4)

Game Recap: Softball |

Softball Pitching Takes Center Stage In Split at Penn State Tourney

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The Cornell softball team hurled a pair of complete game gems, splitting a pair of 3-2 contests on day one at the Penn State Tournament on Friday afternoon at Beard Field. The Big Red topped UMass Lowell in the opener, then fell to the host Nittany Lions in eight innings in the nightcap. Cornell is now 2-7 with three more games remaining at the tournament.

Freshman Maxine McCraw improved to 2-0 on the season, tossing a complete game and scattering seven hits while striking out five against the River Hawks to begin the weekend. She was backed up in the nightcap by Mia Burd, who took the hard-luck loss at the Nittany Lions scored with the international tiebreaker in extra innings after allowing just six hits.

Game One
A little two-out magic in the first put the Big Red in the lead. It began innocently enough, when Maicie Levitt was hit by a pitch. Emily McKinney and Lilly Travieso walked and Olivia Rooney was hit by a pitch, forcing in Levitt for the 1-0 lead. Cornell added a run in the fourth on an Emma Antich RBI single. The RiverHawks got one back in the fifth, but the Big Red answered quickly. 

Two singles sandwiched around a sacrifice bunt allowed Rooney to plate the third run with Levitt touching home plate for the second time. UMass Lowell threatened in the ninth, cutting the lead to 3-2, but McCraw got out of a bases loaded jam by inducing three groundouts.

Marisa Zorilla had the only extra-base hit in the contest, blasting a double and was 1-for-2 with a walk. Levitt was 1-for-1 with two runs scored and Rooney drove in two. 

Game Two
Penn State rallied from a 2-0 deficit with two runs in the sixth to tie and the game-winner in the eighth while the Nittany Lion pitchers spun a one-hitter in improving to 12-11 on the season.

Cornell scratched together two runs in the fifth thanks to a strike-three wild-pitch, another wild pitch, a walk and a double by Emma Antich, the Big Red's lone hit over the first seven innings to drive in both runs. 

Mia Burd, meanwhile, scattered six hits in 7.1 innings or work, striking out three. It wasn't until the sixth when Penn State was able to solve her, stringing together three hits, including a run-scoring double by Maggie Finnegan and a tying base hit up the middle by Lauren Marcotte.

Kylee Lingenfelter (5.1 innings, one hit) and Bailey Parshall (2.2 innings, zero hits, four strikeouts) combined to allow just one hit, the two-RBI double by Antich.

The game-winning run for the home team came in international tiebreaker, as Penn State sacrificed the runner to third before Finnegan's single to left ended the contest. 

Burd took the hard-luck loss, going the distance and scattering six hits and three walks while striking out three.

Finnegan was 2-for-2 with a double, a stolen base and two of the team's three RBI for Penn State, while both Antich and Avery Wagner reached base twice for the Big Red.


Cornell will be back in action on Saturday, March 19 at 1 p.m. when it faces Rider.
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