ITHACA, N.Y. – The Cornell softball (12-11, 4-5 Ivy) set to host a midweek competition against non-conference opponent Syracuse on Wednesday at Niemand-Robison Softball Field.

 

SERIES INFO

vs. Syracuse

Wednesday, April 9

4 p.m.

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SCOUTING CUSE

This will be the 31^st meeting between the Big Red and Cuse as the Orange lead the series 21-9. Syracuse is 22-15 (.595) on the season playing in the ACC with a 3-12 conference record.

At the plate, Madelyn Lopez has the highest batting average at .445 with 49 hits seven doubles and two home runs. Tessa Galipeau in the seven hole is the next highest average with .353 and 30 hits.

Julianna Verni (3.36 ERA) and Madison Knight (3.37 ERA) each made 20 appearances and claimed nine wins on the mound for the Cuse. Knight has pitched 12 complete games and registered 106.0 innings totaling 86 strikeouts.

IVY STANDINGS

Even after a big shake up weekend in the standings, Princeton is still on top with only one conference loss to Dartmouth.

Cornell is still at the top of the league with a .317 batting average and on base percentage of .406 with Ella Harrod in the top 10 individually holding a .358 batting average with 29 hits.

Brown has the lowest ERA for pitchers led by Alexis Guevara with a 2.25 individually.

Princeton has the second-best batting average right behind Cornell at .316 with both Allison Ha (.378) and Sonia Zhang (.376) in the top 10 individually.

Lauren Holt is tied for second in the league in home runs with seven, third in RBIs (24) and fourth in walks drawn (21).

LAST SERIES

The statically best offensive team and best pitching staff in the Ivy League faced each other in a three game conference series.

The Big Red shut out the Bears in the opening game of the series only allowing five hits in seven innings. The game started up in the second inning as Charlize Cai and Emma Antich go on base with a single and walk respectively. Hailey Pirkey stepped up to the plate to add the only run in the first game of the series with an RBI double down the right field line.

The Bears would place four more runners on the bags, but Cornell's defense would not let them around with season-high seven strikeouts from junior pitcher Kyrie Denny and nine putouts through the back of the game.

Cornell started the second game with Lauren Holt and Emma Harshberger on base using Bear's errors to score the first run on a fielder's choice throwing error to score Harshberger. Emma Antich hit the first triple of the season to start the sixth inning.

In a tight third game, the Big Red struck first in the third inning as Charlize Cai put the ball in play in the outfield to cause a fielding error on Brown to score the first run of the day. To add to a big third inning for Big Red, Brown put a runner on second before Harrod grounded a hard-hit ball to shortstop. She looked the runner back, fired to first for the out, and then Emma Harshberger threw to third to catch the runner trying to advance from second, completing the double play. The teams tied it up 2-2 in the sixth before Brown pulled away to win the game 3-2 and take the series.

UP NEXT

Cornell continue at home for another Ivy series against Princeton for a three game series. The games is scheduled to begin on Saturday with a doubleheader starting at 12:30 p.m., before concluding on Sunday with a 12:30 p.m. first pitch.