NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale softball team saved one of its most dramatic victories of the season for the final game at 5k Corral Field at DeWitt Family Stadium. Carolyn Skotz's double to right field scored pinch runner Gretchen Bunovsky in the bottom of the 10^th inning to lift the Bulldogs to a thrilling 10-9 victory over Cornell.
 
Yale rallied after trailing 8-1 in the fifth inning.
 
Miranda Papes led off the 10th win a single to center to start the winning rally. Bunovsky came on to pinch run and advanced to second on Sophie Woodridge's sacrifice bunt. Skotz then sent a deep fly ball that was over the head of Cornell rightfielder Hanna Crist, easily scoring Bunovsky from second and leading to a Yale celebration.
 
Maddie Latta pitched 5.1 innings of relief without allowing an earned run to earn the victory.
 
Skotz, Sam Goodcase, Latta, Willa Ferrer, Papes and Woodridge all had two hits for the Bulldogs.
 
Trailing 8-1 coming to bat in the fifth inning, Yale scored five times to get right back in the game. Papes started the rally with her second home run of the series, another long blast over the left-field fence. Latta later added a two-run single in the inning.
 
The Big Red scored once in the sixth, but the Bulldogs rallied for three runs in the bottom of the seventh. Carmen Muscolina drove home the first with a hard single down the left-field line, and Woodridge's clutch, two-out single to right-center scored Ferrer and Muscolina, forcing extra innings.
 
Cornell threatened in the top of the 10th inning, but Latta got Crist to ground out to shortstop with two runners on base to end the threat and set up the dramatic finish.
 
The Bulldogs won two of the three games in the series to improve 8-10 in Ivy play.
 
Yale closes out the season with a three-game series at Penn next weekend. The teams play a doubleheader on Friday and a single game on Saturday. The first pitch is slated for 12:30 p.m. both days.