POUGHKEEPSIE, New York – The Marist softball team split with a home non-conference doubleheader with Hartford on Wednesday. The Red Foxes won the first game, 3-1, but fell by a score of 4-2 in game two.
 

Game One - Marist 3, Hartford 1

• Marist scored all of its runs in the second inning. Senior Brandi Coon, red-shirt junior Claire Oberdorf, and freshman Kaley Coltrain all singled on the first pitch of their respective at-bats. With one out, freshman Morgan Gianelle's two-run single on a fly ball down the right field line brought home Coon and Oberdorf. Sophomore Olivia Knopf followed with a sacrifice fly, which scored Coltrain.
• In the top of the fourth, Dani Rocheleau led off with a double, and scored on a two-out single by Kylie Dazalla.
• Three Marist pitchers combined to allow just five hits. Senior Brooke Peterson started and worked three scoreless innings. Senior Kallen Leeseberg worked the fourth and fifth, and earned the win. Senior Megan Beiermeister retired all six Hawks she faced in the sixth and seventh for the save.
• Juilanna Kocenski pitched a complete game for Hartford, and allowed just five hits with three strikeouts.
• Rocheleau (2-for-3) was the only player in the game to have multiple hits.

 

Game Two - Hartford 4, Marist 2

• Dazalla's two-run single in the first got Hartford on the board first. She added an RBI single in the third to give the Hawks a 3-0 advantage.
• Hartford advanced its lead to 4-0 in the fourth on an RBI triple by Nic Barranger.
• Marist scored both of its runs in the bottom of the fourth. Oberdorf scored on a wild pitch, and an RBI groundout by freshman Alyssa Yarem plated Gianelle.
• Marist brought the potential go-ahead run to the plate in the fifth, and tying run in the seventh, but was unable to score in either inning.
• Melissa Pereira went four innings to earn the win for Hartford, and Kocenski followed with three scoreless frames for the save.
• Barrager, Rocheleau, Dazalla, and Paige Fedak each had two hits for Hartford.
• Sophomore Caroline Barrata went 2-for-3 with a walk, and junior Ali Milam reached safely in all three of her plate appearances (1-for-1 with two walks).
• Freshman Calista Phippen struck out seven and allowed just one run in five innings of relief.

 

Records

• Marist is now 17-16 on the season. The Red Foxes went 4-2 on their now-completed six-game home stand.
• Hartford is now 12-15.

 

Up Next

• Marist will resume Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference play this weekend with a pair of road doubleheaders. The Red Foxes will travel to Saint Peter's on Saturday, and Manhattan on Sunday.
• First pitch of game one both days is set for noon.