NEW ROCHELLE, New York – The Marist softball team split a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference doubleheader at Iona on Sunday. The Red Foxes prevailed in game one by a score of 9-2, but were defeated by a score of 2-1 in 11 innings in the second game.
 
Game One – Marist 9, Iona 2
Summary

• Iona scored the game's first run in the bottom of the first on an RBI groundout by Kimmie Chiapparelli.
• The Red Foxes took the lead with a three-run third. Marist loaded the bases on two walks and an error, and freshman Caroline Baratta drove in senior Brittany Colombo and freshman Hunter Hand with a double into the right field corner. Senior Miranda Perez followed with a groundout, on which junior Casey Page broke from third and scored.
• In the bottom of the third, an RBI double by Jasmine Temple cut Marist's lead to 3-2.
• The Red Foxes scored four runs in the fifth, all with two outs. Perez's two-out single up the middle scored Hand. After red-shirt sophomore Claire Oberdorf beat out an infield single, sophomore Ali Milam's two-run single brought home Perez and Oberdorf. Senior Kourtney Paul then skied an infield pop-up that got lost in the sun, and Milam scored from second, which extended Marist's lead to 7-2.
• Baratta's RBI single on a sinking infield liner in the sixth brought home Hand, and made it 8-2.
• An RBI single by Colombo in the seventh, which brought home Paul, closed out the scoring.

 
Key Stats

• Junior Megan Beiermeister (10-6) struck out seven and walked just two. She threw 69 of her 111 pitches for strikes.
• Baratta finished 2-for-3 with three RBIs. Paul (2-for-4, RBI, run) also had a multi-hit game.
• Perez and Milam each drove in two runs.
• Hand scored three times.
• The Red Foxes outhit the Gaels, 9-5.
• Marist scored four runs with two outs.
• Jessica Harkness (2-4) took the loss for Iona.

 
Game Two – Iona 2, Marist 1 (11 innings)
Summary

• Despite both teams loading the bases in the first, neither scored.
• Baratta's sacrifice fly in the second brought home Colombo with the game's first run.
• In the bottom of the fourth, Chiapparelli's RBI double tied the score at one apiece.
• The score remained tied at one until the bottom of the 11^th, when Chiapparelli's ground ball single up the middle scored Tori Danner from second to end the game.

 
Key Stats

• Marist outhit Iona, 8-4, but left 15 runners on base.
• Baratta, Paul, and Colombo had two hits apiece for the Red Foxes.
• Junior Kallen Leeseberg started for the Red Foxes, and struck out seven in 5.1. Junior Brooke Peterson (3-3) took the loss, but allowed just one hit and one run in five innings of relief.
• Samantha Bender (1-7) earned the win with seven scoreless innings of relief.

 
Notes

• Beiermeister has now won at least 10 games in all three seasons at Marist. She improved her career record to 33-13.
• Hand's three runs scored in game one were a career high.
• Game two was Marist's second extra-inning game of the year. The Red Foxes defeated Houston Baptist in nine innings on March 14.
• The 11-inning game was Marist's longest since going 12 innings at Quinnipiac on April 19, 2015.

 
Records
Marist is now 19-23 overall and 6-4 in the MAAC. Iona is 17-21 overall and 9-5 in the MAAC.
 
Up Next
Marist heads back to the road for a MAAC doubleheader on Tuesday, April 24, when the Red Foxes travel to Siena. First pitch of game one is set for 2 p.m.