Skinner Has Four Hits In Two Games

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The many former Yale players that came out for Alumni Day at DeWitt Family Field saw the current Bulldogs put on an offensive show. Yale scored 10 runs on nine hits en route to a 10-2, five-inning victory over Ivy League North Division leader Dartmouth in the second game of a doubleheader.

The Big Green won the first game 6-3.

The Bulldogs scored in all five innings of the second game. Francesca Casalino belted a two-run home run and was one of three Yale players with two hits, joining Shelby Kennedy and Allison Skinner.

Skinner had two hits in both games to extend her hitting streak to 12.

The Bulldogs took advantage of some wildness from Dartmouth starting pitcher Morgan Ebow to grab a 2-0 lead in the first inning of the second game. Ebow hit three batters in the frame, including Rachel Paris with the bases loaded, forcing home Kennedy. Skinner later scored on a wild pitch.

Yale added a run in more conventional fashion in the second when Kennedy singled, stole second and came home on Laina Do's single to centerfield.

In the third, Camille Weisenbach scored on a wild pitch to make it 4-0.

Dartmouth pulled to within two on Morgan Martinelli's two-run homer in the fourth, but Casalino answered with a two-run blast in the bottom of the inning.

The Bulldogs then ended the game with four runs in the bottom of the fifth. Kennedy singled home Weisenbach, and Do was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded forcing home a second run. Skinner then sent the Yale fans and alumni home happy when her single to right-center scored Lindsay Kuss and Kennedy.

Terra Jerpbak was outstanding in the circle, limiting a high-powered Dartmouth offense to seven hits, while striking out five and not issuing a walk.

Yale was oh-so-close to sweeping the Big Green, who came into the day with an eight-game winning streak and a three-game lead in the division.

The Bulldogs had a number of loud outs and left eight runners on base in falling 6-3.

Madison Sack hit two towering, long fly balls that were both caught on the warning track.

The Big Green (11-22-1, 10-4 Ivy) got home runs from Karen Chaw, a solo shot in the first, and Maddie Damore, a two-run blast in the third.

Trailing 6-1, Yale rallied in the sixth. Skinner singled, and two batters later, Rachel Paris belted a long home run to centerfield, her second of the season. That got the Yale Precision Marching Band, who were entertaining the big crowd between innings, fired up. It seemed to ignite the Bulldogs as well. Singles by Weisenbach and Kuss and a walk to Jerpbak put the tying runs on base, but Dartmouth pitcher Breanna Ethridge settled down and retired the next hitter to end the threat.

Ethridge entered the game leading the Ivy League in strikeouts, but she managed only three.

Yale had seven hits in the game and drew two walks. Kuss and Skinner were both 2-for-3.

Lindsay Efflandt pitched 3.1 innings of relief and did not allow an earned run for the Bulldogs.

The same two teams meet in another doubleheader on Sunday. The first pitch of the first game is slated for 12:30 p.m.

Report filed by Tim Bennett (timothy.bennett@yale.edu), Yale Sports Publicity