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The Cornell Big Red softball team competes against Columbia on Friday, March 25, 2022 on Niemand-Robison in Ithaca, NY.
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COR COR 6-13
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Winner Penn PENN 9-19
COR COR
6-13
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Final
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Penn PENN
9-19
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
COR COR 0 0 4 0 0 0 2 6 11 3
Penn PENN 2 1 0 0 0 0 4 7 8 1

W: Longo, Julia (4-9) L: Maday, Gabrielle (1-7)

Game Recap: Softball |

Errors Costly As Penn Takes Rubber Game From Softball, 7-6

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- Three Big Red errors allowed Penn softball to steal away a 7-6 win in the rubber game of the three-game Ivy League series on Sunday afternoon at Penn Park. Cornell fell to 6-13 (2-4 Ivy), while the Quakers improved to 9-19.

Five of Penn's runs, including all four in the decisive seventh inning, were unearned off Gabrielle Maday, who went the distance for the Big Red. She scattered eight hits, but a sacrifice fly by Dana Anderson and a walk-off three-run home by Corrie Phillips allowed the Quakers to take the series 2-1.

Celia Macari was 3-for-4 and both Allison Kerce and Hanna Crist had two hits apiece to lead the Big Red offense. Crist drove in a pair of runs with a third-inning single as Cornell turned an early 3-0 Penn lead into eventually a 6-3 advantage for the Big Red. Lilly Travieso also drove in two runs for the visitors.

After Penn scored a pair of runs in the first and another in the second, Cornell answered with a four-run third to take the lead. Crist had a two-run single, while Emily McKinney drew a bases loaded walk and Travieso singled home a run. Travieso added an insurance run with a sac fly in the seventh and Marissa Zorrilla plated a run to go up 6-3 entering the home-half of final inning.

Two singles, sandwiched around an error, loaded the bases with nobody out. Maday retired two batters while surrendering just a single run to make it 6-4, but Phillips drove a pitch to right to walk off with the win.

Cornell returns to action on Tuesday, April 5 at 1 p.m. when it visits Maryland Eastern Shore for a doubleheader during its spring break trip.


 
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