Whitney Shaw's six RBI helped propel the Crimson to a sweep of Dartmouth and the North Division title.
And the dream lives on.
A sweep of Dartmouth in a doubleheader yesterday assured the Harvard softball team of a place in the Ivy League Championship Series against Cornell next weekend.
The Crimson came into the weekend—which featured a pair of home-and-home twinbills against the Big Green—two games ahead of Dartmouth in the North Division standings.
For fans of Harvard softball, one thing has become a near-guarantee over the last two years: put sophomore Rachel Brown on the mound, and the Crimson will probably come away with the win.
After a phenomenal freshman season in which the hurler took home Ivy Rookie of the Year honors, Brown’s compiling some serious credentials for another piece of hardware—Ancient Eight Pitcher of the Year.
Sophomore pitcher Rachel Brown has made quite the name for herself in her two years on the Ivy softball circuit. On Sunday, she put another feather in her already-decorated cap when she pitched a no-hitter for the second-consecutive weekend.
You can read all about Brown’s performance—which garnered her Athlete of the Week honors from The Crimson’s sports staff—here. But in the meantime, The Back Page spoke with Brown and her teammates, and here’s what they had to say about the standout sophomore.
Harvard softball players wearing purple ribbons.
The Harvard baseball and softball teams showed their muscle at the plate on Saturday, racking up 36 runs in four games, but the squads also put their strongest muscle on display: the heart.
Softball and baseball teamed up over the weekend to sponsor Friends of Jaclyn Day, an event focused on increasing awareness of pediatric brain tumors through FOJ—an organization that pairs collegiate and high school teams with children suffering from cancer.
Sophomore Rachel Brown had her first no-hitter of her young career this weekend.
Not even halfway through her Harvard career, sophomore pitcher Rachel Brown has already made her way into Crimson softball history.
A year after setting the program single-season strikeout record, Brown added another accomplishment to her already-lengthy resumé on Friday—her first career no-hitter.
