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LOUDONVILLE, N.Y. – The Cornell softball team split a midweek doubleheader at Siena on Thursday afternoon, topping the Saints 4-2 in the opener before Siena took the nightcap 5-4. The split moved the Big Red to 16-24 on the year, while the Saints are now 23-18.

Game 1 – Box Score (PDF)
Cornell scored two in the first and that was enough for Alyson Onyon, who picked up her 38^th career win and 47th complete game in the 3-1 victory over Siena.

Onyon was in control throughout, evening her record on the season at 9-9 by scattering six hits and striking out seven without issuing a free pass. She surpassed 100 strikeouts on the season for the third straight year and allowed only a fifth inning leadoff home run to spoil the shutout.

Meg Parker was 3-for-4 and Jenny Edwards was 2-for-4 with a first-inning RBI single. Michiko McGivney also drove in a run with a first inning hit, while Sam Creamer launched a solo homer in the fourth to round out the scoring. For Creamer, it was her first of the season and the third of her career.

Siena threatened in both the sixth and seventh innings, by Onyon was up to the task. She stranded the bases loaded in the sixth after the Saints strung together half of the team's six hits in the inning, but Onyon induced a final groundout to end the frame. She then stranded runners at first and second in the seventh with consecutive strikeouts to end the game.

Game 2 – Box Score (PDF)
Siena held off a Big Red rally in game two, stranding the tying and go-ahead runs in scoring position in the seventh in a 5-4 victory in the nightcap.

Jenny Edwards was 3-for-3 with a run scored and an RBI as the Big Red pounded out 11 hits in the loss, with Linda Laeufer going 2-for-4 with a run scored. In all, eight Cornell batters reached safely. In the circle, Sammy Roth allowed just one hit and struck out three in the final two innings.

Siena scored single runs in each of the first five innings to salvage the doubleheader split.  Cornell rallied from a 3-0 deficit to tie the game with three runs of its own in the fourth. Cornell senior Jenny Edwards won the battle with Siena pitcher Jenny Edwards with a solo home run, her fifth of the season and 26^th career long ball. Her two RBI on the day also put her at 98 in her four seasons, good for 10^th all-time at Cornell. Four batters later Samantha Creamer came up big like she did in the first game with a two-run single to knot the score at 3-3.

After watching Siena regain a 5-3 edge, Cornell put together a rally in the seventh, getting back within a run on a wild pitch. The bases loaded, one-out rally fell short as the Saints took the victory. The win was the 23^rd of the year for Siena, setting a new single-season school record.

Cornell heads to Princeton to begin a four-game set on Saturday, April 26 at 12:30 p.m.