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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 Wraps Up Season At Princeton on Friday, Saturday

5/2/2024 1:29:00 PM

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell softball team finishes the 2024 season with a three-game series at Princeton on Friday and Saturday, May 3-4, at Strubing Field. The Big Red and the Tigers play at 3:30 p.m. Friday and have a doubleheader starting at 12:30 p.m. Saturday. ESPN+ will stream all three games live. 

Harrod Having An Impressive Sophomore Season 

  • Harrod is batting .389 over Cornell's last 16 games (21-for-54). She's driven in 11 runs in that span.

  • Harrod, who's played in 33 of Cornell's 34 games, has struck out just once in 105 at-bats this season (against Siena on Feb. 24). She has gone 30 straight games without one. 

  • Only one other player in the country — Toledo's Emily Bracamonte (107 at-bats) — has 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 (.324), 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, tied for the most in the Ivy League. 

  • She leads Cornell in stolen bases (7). 

  • Harrod's batting average is 115 points higher this season (.324) 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 86 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 69 runs in her career, needs 12 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

  • Travieso has a career-high .322 batting average entering the final week of her Cornell career. She's 14 for 32 (.437) over her last 12 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. Princeton History

  • Cornell is 38-44 all-time against Princeton. 

  • The Tigers and the Big Red have split the last four meetings in the series. 

  • Each team has five wins in the last 10 games in the series. 

  • Cornell is 19-21 on the road against Princeton. 

  • Junior Emma Antich had four RBI in Cornell's 10-9 win over the Tigers in Ithaca last year. Holt drove in three runs, and sophomore Sydney Stapf drove in two.

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