Blue Devils Push Across Winning Run In Seventh Inning

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Yale's final game before the start of Ivy League play was another thriller. Unfortunately for the Bulldogs, it didn't end the way they would have liked. Kerri Dadalski's RBI single in the seventh inning snapped a 3-3 tie and lifted Central Connecticut to a 4-3 victory.

It was the sixth game this season Yale has played that was decided by one run.

Shelby Kennedy, Annie Tarte and Sydney Grobman each had two hits, and Francesca Casalino belted her first home run of the season for the Bulldogs.

After Central Connecticut took a 1-0 lead with a run in the top of the second, Yale quickly tied it when Grobman doubled and scored on Kennedy's single to left in the bottom of the second.

It stayed 1-1 until the fourth when CCSU scored twice. Casalino's solo homer pulled the Bulldogs within one in the bottom of the fourth, and Tarte tripled home Kennedy in the bottom of the fifth.

The Blue Devils' seventh inning rally started with two outs when Sydney Bolan doubled to centerfield. Dadalski followed with a single to center that scored pinch runner Kristen Ulmer.

Yale had nine hits in the game, including singles Giovy Webb and Madison Sack.

The Bulldogs now turn their attention to Ivy play. They host Harvard in a doubleheader on Saturday starting at 12:30 p.m. Sunday's single game, which was originally a 12:30 p.m. start, has now been switched to 1 p.m.

Report filed by Tim Bennett (timothy.bennett@yale.edu), Yale Sports Publicity