Pair Of One-Run Victories For Bulldogs

FAIRFIELD, Conn. – Yale will enter Ivy League play with a bunch of positive momentum. The Bulldogs banged out 10 hits in both games of a doubleheader with Fairfield en route to sweeping the Stags. Terra Jerpbak went 3-for-4 at the plate and pitched five strong innings in a 5-4 victory in the first game, and Carlin Hagmaier, the reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Week, had three hits, scored two runs and added an RBI in a 6-5 victory in the second game.

Yale (7-15) has won three straight games.

Both games featured a fair share of drama. The Bulldogs appeared to take control of the first game by scoring twice in the top of the seventh inning to go ahead 5-2.

Fairfield, though, rallied in its half of the seventh. Courtney Hankins' two-run double pulled the Stags within a run, but Francesca Casalino got Angelina McGuire to ground out to second to end the game.

Jerpbak pitched the first five innings, allowing four hits and one earned run.

Yale scored once in the second inning and then scored again in the fourth on Brittany Labbadia's RBI single.

After Fairfield scored once in the bottom of the fourth, Lauren Delgadillo drew a bases loaded walk to force home a run in the sixth.

Rachel Paris' two-run double in the seventh capped Yale's scoring.

In the second game, the Bulldogs grabbed the lead by scoring three times in the fourth. Hagmaier's double scored Laina Do to start the scoring. Camille Weisenbach followed with another double that drove home Hagmaier, and Weisenbach scored when Delgadillo reached on an error.

The Stags, though, answered with a run in the bottom of the fourth and then added four runs in the fifth to take a 5-3 lead.

Yale, though, got three runs in the sixth to regain the lead. Paris' sacrifice fly got things going, and Shelby Kennedy added a clutch, two-out, two-run triple.

Jerpbak pitched two scoreless innings of relief to earn the save. Lindsay Efflandt started in the circle and struck out four in five innings to notch the victory.

Kennedy and Weisenbach each had two hits for the Bulldogs, who open Ivy League play with a doubleheader at Columbia on Friday at 2 p.m. Yale then travels to Penn for a doubleheader on Saturday.

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