The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/softball/page/2/)
“That’s been a big overarching theme of the season: having the fight and the drive to stay in games,” said senior right-fielder Hanna Crist. “And that’s what we did in our second game of the series to pull out a win.”
“It can be intimidating to go to a tournament with so many big schools,” Levitt said. “But I think we changed our attitude so we knew that we could put up a good fight against these teams and take home some wins.”
“It didn’t go how we wanted it to go, but we’ve been practicing for two years basically, so any chance to play other competition is always exciting,” said senior infielder Emily McKinney.
Cornell split four games at the George Mason Invitational, which ended up being its final series following the cancellation of all spring sports.
Softball head coach Julie Farlow ’97 believes that the Red’s eight sophomores will be critical to the team’s success.
Senior infielder Bridgette Rooney batted 10-for-15 over the weekend to earn Ivy League Player of the Week honors.
Cornell’s season ended on Monday. The next day, two players were kicked off the team.
Seven current and former Cornell softball players say Julie Farlow ’97 has engaged in a pattern of mistreatment in her four years as head coach, including neglecting established concussion protocols and mishandling other injuries.
“The biggest adjustment was preventing the big innings that we gave up in game one,” said assistant coach Janet Maguire. “Our pitchers were able to work their way out a few times with runners in scoring position to give our offense a chance.”
The Red went across town Tuesday to take on Division III I.C.