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Action shot image of Women's Softball student-athlete Jade Sinskul
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Jade Sinksul hit her first collegiate homer
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Winner Marist MAR 1-2
3
Rhode Island URI 1-7
Winner
Marist MAR
1-2
5
Final
3
Rhode Island URI
1-7
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Marist MAR 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 5 7 0
Rhode Island URI 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 6 6

W: Peterson, Brooke (1-0) L: KERNAN, Riley (1-2)

Game Recap: Softball | | Mike Ferraro

Marist Softball Tops Rhode Island

Sinskul Homers In 5-3 Triumph

MADEIRA BEACH, Florida – The Marist softball team won its first game of the 2018 season on Saturday night, as the Red Foxes defeated Rhode Island 5-3 at the Madeira Beach Invitational.
 
Summary
  • Rhode Island scored in the bottom of the first on a two-out RBI double by Erica Robles.
  • Marist took the lead in the top of the second with a pair of runs. Senior Gabrielle Kelliher scored on a wild pitch, and freshman Hunter Hand came home on an error. However, the Rams tied the game in the bottom of the third on another RBI double by Robles.
  • Sophomore Jade Sinskul's first career home run in the fourth inning gave the Red Foxes a lead they would not relinquish.
  • The Red Foxes tacked on two more runs in the sixth when senior Brittany Colombo's RBI double brought home senior Kourtney Paul, and freshman Lauren Beal scored on an error.
  • Rhode Island closed out the scoring on a seventh-inning solo homer by Kylie Shivery.
 
Key Stats
  • Sinskul went 2-for-4 with a solo homer.
  • Junior Brooke Peterson went five-plus innings and improved to 1-0 on the season.
  • Junior Kallen Leeseberg struck out four in the final two innings for her first save of the year.
  • Riley Kernan (1-2) took the loss for Rhode Island, and went the first 6.1 innings.
  • Shivery went 3-for-4 with two runs scored.
  • Rhode Island committed six errors, while Marist did not commit any. Three of the Red Foxes' five runs were unearned.
  • Marist outhit Rhode Island, 7-6.
 
Records
Marist is now 1-2 on the season. Rhode Island dropped to 1-7.
 
Up Next
Marist closes out play in the Madeira Beach Invitational on Sunday, when the Red Foxes face Middle Tennessee (11:30 a.m.) and Eastern Michigan (2 p.m.).
 
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