Harvard 3, Princeton 2 (12 inn.)

Brotemarkle went the entire way herself to earn the victory for Harvard.

She gave up just six hits in 12 innings, including seven consecutive shutout innings to close out the game. It was a performance she said she never knew she had in her.

“Usually I’m pretty tired after seven [innings],” Brotemarkle said. “I happy I was to be able to go all 12.”

Sophomore Lauren Stefanchik provided the eventual game-winning hit off Snyder with the bases loaded and two outs in the top of the 12th. She had been 0-for-5 against Snyder prior to her final at bat.

Princeton had scored first with two runs in the bottom of the fifth, but Harvard answered in the top of the sixth on a two-run double by Sara Williamson that drove in Stefanchik and freshman Erin Halpenny.

Penn

Harvard had won 17 straight games against perennial Ivy cellar-dweller Penn since 1994, but by the end of Saturday the Crimson had a two-game losing streak against the Quakers after falling by scores of 6-4 in game one and 4-2 in game two.

Brotemarkle took the first defeat despite striking out nine in six innings. She said Penn took both games without hitting the ball hard.

“There were quite a few times in the Penn game that we had communication breakdowns on defense,” Brotemarkle said. “They were doing a lot of bunting and we weren’t getting the outs that we needed to.”

Among the worst breakdowns was when a Penn runner was allowed to steal home.

The end result of the forgettable Penn series is that it left the Harvard players with nowhere to go but up against Princeton, and that they did.

“We had no chance at the title at that point, so we [thought] we may as well just come out and play our hardest [at Princeton],” Brotemarkle said.

—Staff writer David R. De Remer can be reached at remer@fas.harvard.edu.