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The Cornell Softball team competes against Harvard in a double header on April 27, 2024 at Niemand-Robison Softball Field in Ithaca, NY.
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Softball Begins Final Week Of 2024 Season With Doubleheader At Syracuse

4/30/2024 3:00:00 PM

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell softball team (7-26, 4-14 Ivy League) begins the final week of the 2024 season with a doubleheader against Syracuse (25-21, 7-14 ACC) on Wednesday, May 1, starting at 3:00 p.m at the Skytop Softball Stadium. ACC Network Extra will stream both games live. 

Harrod Having An Impressive Sophomore Season 

  • Sophomore Ella Harrod is batting .411 over Cornell's last 15 games (21-for-51). She's driven in 11 runs in that span.

  • Harrod, who's played in 32 of Cornell's 33 games, has struck out just once in 91 at-bats this season (against Siena on Feb. 24). She has gone 29 straight games without one. 

  • Only two other players in the country — Emily Bracamonte (Toledo, 98 at-bats) and Mari Barbato (Toledo, 85 at-bats) — have one strikeout this season. 

  • Harrod has struck out just five times going back to Cornell's loss to Princeton on April 16 last season. She went the last six games of last season without a strikeout. 

  • Harrod leads Cornell in batting average (.333), hits (34) and doubles (9). She has driven in 18 runs, the third-most on the team. 

  • Harrod has six successful sacrifice bunts this season, the most in the Ivy League. 

  • She leads Cornell in stolen bases (7). 

  • Harrod's batting average is 124 points higher this season (.333) than last season (.209).

  • Harrod hit her first career home run at Penn on March 22. 

  • She drove in a career-high four runs in Cornell's win over Harvard on April 27. 

  • The Big Red shortstop has 85 defensive assists, the most on the team. She has helped turn eight double plays. 

Holt Already Climbing The Cornell Record Book

  • Sophomore power hitter Lauren Holt is already climbing the program's record book. Holt hit her 18th collegiate home run against Dartmouth on April 20, moving into a tie for 12th in Cornell history in career home runs. Melissa Heintz (2002-04) and Alyson Inhitar (2007-10) hit 18 in their careers. 

  • With five RBI over three games against Dartmouth, Holt became the first Cornell player to reach 40 RBI in a season since Elise Menaker had 52 in 2010. 

  • Holt is one of nine Cornell players to drive in 40 or more runs in a season. The others are Menaker (52 in 2010, 47 in 2009 and 55 in 2008), Ashley Garvey (62 in 2009), Jessy Berkey (45 in 2009), Jenna Campagnolo (51 in 2008), Inhitar (41 in 2007), Lauren May (45 in 2005, 56 in 2004 and 52 in 2002), Heintz (47 in 2004), Allison Batten (40 in 2001 and 44 in 1998). 

  • With three more home runs this season, Holt would move into ninth place in program history. Lauren May (2002-05) holds the program record with 58 home runs; Varde (2001-04) and Menaker (2007-10) hit 37 in their careers, good for second place. Berkey (31 from 2006-09) and Jenny Edwards (26 from 2011-14) are third and fourth on the list, respectively. 

  • Holt, who's driven in 62 runs in her career, needs 13 more RBI to enter the top 20 in Cornell history in that category. 

More Impressive Numbers On Holt:

  • Holt leads the Ivy League in RBI (41) and is second in home runs (9).

  • Holt has driven in multiple runs in 11 games this season. 

  • Holt's six RBI against Middle Tennessee are the second most by an Ivy League player in a game this season. 

  • Holt won Ivy League Player of the Week for the first time in her collegiate career after driving in runs in bunches at the Spring Games in Madeira Beach, Florida. Over five games, she had two doubles, three homers, nine total hits in 17 at-bats and 14 of Cornell's 32 RBI.

  • The 2023 second-team All-Ivy performer led the Ivy League with nine homers and finished tied for third in RBI (28) as a freshman last season. 

  • Only six other players in Cornell history have led the Big Red in RBI and homers as freshmen. That list includes Stephanie Riggins (4 HR, 17 RBI in 1995), Allison Batten (8 HR, 44 RBI in 1998), Lauren May (16 HR, 52 RBI in 2002), Meg Risica (8 HR, 30 RBI in 2006), Alyson Inhitar (11 HR and 41 RBI in 2007) and Bridgette Rooney (10 HR, 30 RBI in 2017). 

Travieso Having Memorable Senior Year On and Off the Diamond

  • Senior Lilly Travieso has a career-high .330 batting average entering the final week of her Cornell career. She's 14 for 30 (.466) over her last 11 games. 

  • Travieso spoke at Vice President Kamala Harris' Women in Sports Celebration on March 27. The event, in collaboration with the Women in Sports Foundation, was part of Women's History Month.

  • In her address, Travieso detailed her story as a Latina athlete and her work with the ELLA Sports Foundation, which she founded with help from her mother, Patty, as a senior in high school. ELLA, which stands for Empowering Leadership in Latina Athletes, is a non-profit organization that provides academic and athletic support to young Latina athletes.

  • Travieso visited the White House in October for First Lady Jill Biden's first-ever Girls Leading Change event. 

Cornell vs. Syracuse History

  • Syracuse has a 20-9 all-time lead against Cornell. 

  • The Orange has won six straight and 12 of the last 13 games in the series. 

  • The Big Red is 2-7 on the road against the Orange.

  • Cornell last beat the Orange in 2013 in Syracuse. The Big Red won 3-2 in eight innings. 

Up Next

  • Cornell concludes its season at Princeton this weekend, April 4-5.

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