Cabe dominated Cornell in Friday’s second game, registering a complete game, one-run performance.
Perfect through four full innings, the righthander took the mound in the fifth looking to continue shutting down the Big Red offense. Perfection would not be long-lived, however, as Cornell sophomore Megan Murray promptly led off with a double into the left-center gap and later scored on a sacrifice fly.
Despite the slight blemish to her pitching line, Cabe still turned in a dominant performance in the circle, earning her seventh win of the year. The junior threw two-thirds of her pitches for strikes and walked just one batter.
The ball was in play almost every at bat on both sides. Each team only struck out once, and Cornell junior Olivia May worked the game’s lone walk.
Cornell 8, Harvard 6
In its first Ivy action, Harvard dropped a close decision to Cornell.
Facing a five-run deficit, the Crimson rallied in the top of the fifth and hung a crooked number on the scoreboard. Harvard tied the game in one turn at bat by sending five runners across the plate, three of which scored when Lantz took Cornell starter Meg Parker deep to left field.
Parker eventually settled down, and the Big Red answered with three runs of its own in the next half inning to secure the win.
—Staff writer Jack Stockless can be reached at jack.stockless@thecrimson.com.