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Freshman Stephanie Krysiak started the rally in the seventh with a leadoff double. Lotti rebounded to fan Brown but walked senior Julia Kidder to put the go-ahead run aboard. Murphy came to the plate with the chance to deliver the decisive blow, but went down on three straight fastballs. However, freshman Melissa Schellberg earned a five-pitch walk to load the bases for Jennifer Francis with two outs. After working a full count, Francis lined a one-hopper to second baseman Laura Jaxheimer, who booted the grounder, sending Krysiak and Kidder home...
Brown batted leadoff Saturday for the first time in 13 games. She had been the leadoff hitter for most of the season until sustaining a finger injury early on in league play...
...third by striking out first baseman Alyssa Parker, who had homered against her the previous day, and catcher Leigha Clarkson to end the inning.Backed with a three-run lead, Madick set Dartmouth down easily in the seventh, allowing only a two-out, infield single before striking out leadoff hitter and shortstop Christy Austin to end the game.“I had some jitters to get out of the way,” Madick said. “I’ve seen them for 15 innings or so now. I need to just sustain my confidence and keep throwing...
...lead on one swing in the top of the second. Murphy, who entered the day holding the Ivy League single-season home run record with 17, had been walked intentionally in three of her four times plate appearances in the first game. So Allard moved her to the leadoff spot, with the idea that she would get on base for Kidder and Brown to drive...
Then a funny thing happened in the second game. Quakers rookie Jim Birmingham threw seven innings of no-hit ball and the team’s leadoff hitter spanked a Shawn Haviland curveball for a three-run dinger to give Penn, which had finished 7-13 in the Ivies for two years running, the split. Haviland, the staff ace and league’s Pitcher of the Year in 2006, allowed twice as many earned runs in that game (six) as he had in all five of his Ivy starts the year before combined...