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Softball Splits Princeton, Sweeps Penn In First Ivy Weekend

Despite posting a 3-1 mark on the opening weekend of the Ivy League season, the Harvard softball team returned this weekend from a league road trip holding third place in the conference that it won handily last year.

The Crimson (12-14, 2-2 Ivy) dropped its only game in the first game of a doubleheader against Princeton (8-9, 1-3) on Saturday. Harvard came back to win three straight, including two against Penn (10-19, 0-4) yesterday.

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Harvard dropped the first game of the set, 2-1, as Tiger sophomore Brie Galicinao locked horns with senior hurler Chelsea Thoke in a pitcher's duel.

Junior right fielder Sarah Koppel continued her torrid start to the season, hitting a homerun over the left-centerfield wall in the second inning.

Koppel would go on to hit two more homeruns on the trip, giving her eight

for the year. She is only two shy of the Harvard record of ten in one season, set by Deborah Abeles in 1998.

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