By Sam Higuera
POUGHKEEPSIE – The Marist University softball team captured its second straight Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championship and third in the last four years with a 4-0 win over Iona on Sunday morning at Gartland Field. The Red Foxes will enter the NCAA Tournament on a 17-game winning streak.
Marist broke a scoreless tie in the bottom of the fourth. Sienna Kunze led off the inning with a single, and Samantha Rogers brought her home with an RBI double to right field.
The Red Foxes added three more runs in the fifth. Annabelle Geiser singled to lead off the inning before Peyton Pusey hit a two-run homer to center field.
Two batters later, Haley Ahr added a solo homer to right center to extend the lead to 4-0.
Ava Metzger held Iona scoreless throughout the game. The graduate student allowed just three hits in a complete-game shutout.
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