Ferri ranks third on the Crimson with eight doubles (photo
courtesy Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Jessica Ferri
delivered a tiebreaking three-run double with two out in the bottom
of the sixth inning to lift the Harvard softball team to a 4-1 win
against Brown in the second game of the Crimson's first Ivy League
North Division doubleheader Sunday afternoon at Soldiers Field.
Brown won the first game, 1-0.
Margaux
Black, one of six Harvard players honored in Senior Day
festivities before the doubleheader, won the second game with four
innings of one-hit, shutout relief. Julia Moore allowed
just one run on four hits, striking out, in the first three
innings. Liz DiMascio gave up four runs on three hits and six walks
for the Bears (15-16, 3-7 Ivy League).
Ferri's big hit broke a 1-1 tie. Stephanie
Krysiak led off the inning with a single deep into the
shortstop hole and was thrown out trying to score on a pitch in the
dirt, but Jennifer
Francis, Whitney Shaw and Melissa
Schellberg all walked and scored on Ferri's line-drive shot off
the outstretched glove of Brown leftfielder Sandra Mastrangelo.
The Crimson (16-19, 7-3) got on the board first earlier in the
game, when Shaw led off the second inning with a single. Kassy Shiotani
ran for Shaw and later scored on a passed ball. The Bears answered
in the following frame, when Amanda Asay singled in Andrea Browne
to tie the game at 1-1.
The opening game was a pitcher's duel between the Crimson's Rachel Brown
and Kristie Chin of Brown. Chin improved to 9-2 by limiting the
Crimson to three hits and two walks while striking out two. Rachel
Brown fell to 10-5 despite fanning 10 Bears and walking just one
while surrendering six hits.
Rachel Brown struck out the side to strand Katie Rothamel on
second after a double to lead off the top of the sixth inning, but
the Bears took advantage of another scoring chance in the seventh.
Asay led off the frame with a single inside the third-base bag.
Pinch runner Danielle Commissiong later scored from second when
Mastrangelo sent a single to left.
Harvard's best chance of the game came in the fifth, when Jessica
Pledger's bid for a two-run home run hooked outside the foul
pole in left. Pledger went on to draw a walk, but Chin escaped the
jam by retiring two Crimson batters.
The start of the twinbill, was postponed by a day and then
delayed two hours Sunday. The teams meet again for two more games
Monday afternoon.
