May 9, 2003

Poughkeepsie, NY-The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) named Marist College senior shortstop Kathleen McEvily (White Plains, NY) to the All-MAAC First Team this afternoon. McEvily also earned All-Academic honors for the third time in her collegiate career, along with four other Red Fox softball players.

McEvily, who recently earned District I Verizon/CoSida Academic All-District Team accolades, started all 41 games for the Red Foxes as she led the team with a career-high .394 batting average. She struck out only three times in 127 at-bats this season. She knocked out 14 doubles, setting a new single season mark that has her currently ranked tenth in the nation. Defensively, she ended the season with a .965 fielding percentage making only six errors, while having 53 putouts and 114 assists in 173 chances.

Also named to the MAAC All-Academic Team were; senior Nicole Fox (Temecula, CA), sophomores Allison Bartley (Manalapan, NJ), Barbara Leasure (Fairless Hills, PA), and Danielle Blake (Doylestown, PA).

Fox, a Psychology/Special Education major, went 4-7 on the year with a 3.15 ERA, while pitching five complete games for the Red Foxes. Bartley, majoring in Fashion, played and started 40 games for Marist this season, scoring 21 runs and hitting five doubles. Leasure, another Psychology/Special Education major, started 26 games in her second season, committing only two errors defensively, while finishing the year with a .978 fielding percentage. Lastly, Blake, a Communications major, won four games on the mound, finishing with a 4.73 ERA, second on the team.

The Red Foxes ended their year fifth in the conference at 7-9, winning three of their last four games of the season, while going 10-31 overall.