Softball

On Sunday, the softball team saw its season come to a disappointing close after dropping its four-game homestand with Cornell. With the victories, Cornell kept pace with Penn atop the Ivy League South Division at 15-5, while Princeton finished third at 8-12. Cornell and Penn will duel it out in the first tie-breaking playoff game in Ivy League softball history to decide who will take on 17-3 Harvard, the winner of the North Division.

Head softball coach Trina Salcido resigned on Tuesday evening, announcing her departure from the Princeton softball program. Salcido's departure is the third resignation by a Princeton head coach in the last eight days, following the departures of men's tennis head coach Glenn Michibata and women's tennis head coach Megan Bradley-Rose.

The softball team dropped its last non-conference game of the season on Tuesday afternoon, falling 9-0 at Hofstra in five innings. Princeton (14-28 overall, 8-8 Ivy League) surrendered eight runs in the first frame and managed only one hit against the Pride (29-13).

With Penn taking three of four games from Cornell, last weekend was the softball team’s chance to make up some ground in the Ivy League South Division standings. However, after splitting its four-game series with Columbia, Princeton’s chance of coming away with the title remains slim as the team sits three games behind the leaders Penn and Cornell with only four more conference games left to play.

Nine years ago, 12-year-old Liza Kuhn decided to pick up softball after years of playing Wiffle ball with her family in the backyard of her home in Middletown, N.J. In order to pursue softball, she gave up gymnastics, which she had been doing for several years.

“It only took a few weeks to realize that I loved the game for its competitiveness and sense of team,” Kuhn said.

 

Kuhn threw two-and-a-third innings in the second game of Princeton's doubleheader on Wednesday, allowing one run, but Princeton dropped both contests at Lehigh, 3-1 and 2-0.