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Since Princeton’s Melissa Finley had given up just one baserunner since the third, a Crimson comeback seemed distant when Cooley stepped to the plate with one out. But her timely hit made the comeback possible...
Freshman Lauren Stefanchik, the nation’s 29th-leading hitter with a .422 average entering the week, had just three RBI to her credit this season, but that only masked her strength at the plate with the bases loaded. Stefanchik knocked Finley out of the game by slapping the first pitch over the right side of the infield to cut the deficit to 4-3 and reload the bases...
LOB—P 2, H 3. 2B—H Sabin. 3B—P Lueke. HR—P Galicinao, Del Calvo. H Whitton. RBI—P Galicinao, Del Calvo, Veenstra. H Whitton 6, Stefanchik. Pitchers— P Finley L (6.1 IP, 8 H, 6 ER, 1 BB, 3 K), Bingham (0.1 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 0 K). H Brotemarkle (5 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 0 B, 6 K). Whitton (1 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 0 K). Sabin...
...Finley tells the story of a man who is about to rape a woman on the subway, but is enraged to find out that she is menstruating. Kidney beans represent the menstruation. In “Mr. Hirsch,” she used melted ice cream to symbolize the mess involved when a little girl is forced to perform oral sex on her neighbor. And in “Yams Up My Granny’s Ass,” a piece that many outraged critics fixated upon, she rubbed canned yams all over her backside in order to illustrate...
Such highly charged performances have resulted in several arduous legal battles. Much of Finley’s work in the 1980s did not meet the National Endowment for the Arts’ congressionally set standards for decency. Finley calls this kind of legislation a form of McCarthyism, and believes herself to be a defender of the First Amendment. In 1998, her case reached the Supreme Court, which decided against her. Although Finley’s work is highly respected in Europe, she refuses to seek funding abroad; leaving the country would be a form of resignation...