Marist Falls at Siena; Second Game Halted to Darkness

LOUDONVILLE – The Marist University softball team dropped the opening game of a three-game series at Siena by a score of 3-2 in eight innings on Friday.

The second game was suspended due to darkness with the score tied 3-3 after eight innings. After play was unable to resume on Saturday or Sunday, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference ruled that game two would end in a tie. Game three of the series was canceled.

The loss in game one ended Marist’s 19-game winning streak, which was the longest active winning streak in the country and the longest in program history.

Game One
Marist scored twice in the top of the first. Maddie Pleasants’ sacrifice fly scored Peyton Pusey, who led off the game with a bunt single. Samantha Rogers’ single brought home Miah McDonald with the Red Foxes’ second run.

Siena answered with one in the bottom of the first, when McKenzie Swinson scored on Emma Petersen’s double.

The Saints tied the game in the bottom of the third. Swinson led off the inning with a triple, and scored two batters later on Gracie Goewey’s sacrifice fly.

The score remained 2-2 until the bottom of the eighth, when the Saints scored the winning run on an error.

McDonald reached three times with a single and two walks.

Kiley Myers (15-1) went the distance in the circle for Marist. She struck out two and walked just one.

The Red Foxes left 10 runners on base.

Game Two
Marist opened the scoring in the top of the third on Samantha Rogers’ bases-loaded walk, which forced home McDonald.

Haley Ahr’s two-run double brought home Kaitlyn Husic and McDonald to give Marist a 3-0 lead in the fourth.

Siena cut its deficit to 3-2 in the fifth.

In the bottom of the seventh, Chloe Cummings’ RBI single to center field brought home the tying run, but Peyton Pusey’s throw to Isabella Manory was in time to cut off what would have been the game-winning run.

After a scoreless eighth inning, the game was halted due to darkness.

Pleasants struck out a career-high 15 in eight innings.

Ahr was 2-for-3 with two RBIs and a walk.