Feb. 26, 2011

Box Score

MOUNT PLESANT, S.C. - The Marist softball team watched its losing streak grow to four games to open the season on Saturday at the College of Charleston Cougar Classic. The Red Foxes fell to Liberty 4-0 and ended the day with an 8-1 loss to the College of Charleston. For the day, junior Ashley Corriss (Sayville, N.Y.) went 4-for-5 at the plate with a double and three singles.

Against the Flames, freshman Paige Lewis (Temecula, Calif.) pitched a complete game and surrendered five hits, four runs three of which were earned, and struck out four batters. She fell to 0-1 in her first start of the season.

Liberty got on the board with a pair of runs in the top of the second. Sammi Shivock drove a one-out triple to right field. After a double by Kaylee West plated Shivock, West came around to score on a Bridgett Woods double two batters later. The Flames added two insurance runs in the seventh.

In the second game against the host Cougars, the College of Charleston scored three runs in the first inning and never looked back. Marist starter Emily Osterhaus (Suwanee, Ga.) let the first three batters of the game on base on a walk, hit by pitch and a bunt base hit. After she got the next two batters out, Carly Corthell drove in two runs with a single to right center. Lizzy Vaughn drove in the third run of the inning on an RBI single to left field.

The Red Foxes cut the deficit to 3-1 in the top of the fifth. After sophomore Nicole Van Loan (Kingston, N.Y.) pinch ran for Carmody. Corriss advanced Van Loan to second on an infield hit to the shortstop. After a Megan Lamoureux (Woonsocket, R.I.) ground out, freshman Alyssa Zahka (Lexington, Mass.) drove in Van Loan on a fielder's choice to account for Marist's lone run.

College of Charleston responded with three runs in its half of the fifth and two in the sixth.

Marist (0-4) will wrap up play at the College of Charleston Cougar Classic on Sunday, Feb. 27 at 10 a.m. against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.