STOCKTON, California – The Marist softball team split its two games on Saturday as the Red Foxes closed out play in the Mizuno Classic and their 11-game Spring Break trip.
In their first game of the day, Santa Clara defeated Marist 9-1 in five innings. The Red Foxes bounced back for a 4-3 triumph in their second game.
Marist is now 11-15 on the season.
- Santa Clara scored all nine runs in the top of the first. Lauren LaHood had a two-run double.
- Caroline Baratta got Marist on the board in the bottom of the fourth with a solo home run, her third in the last four games.
- Sam Freeland had two singles for the Red Foxes.
- Maddie Pleasants struck out six for Marist.
- Marist scored two runs in the first. Freeland singled, and later scored on an error. Baratta also came home on an error.
- Maddie Gore's two-out double in the fourth brought home Miah McDonald, and put Marist up 3-0.
- Reagan Hamilton's leadoff homer in the sixth cut Marist's lead to 3-1. The Tigers loaded the bases with one out, but then McDonald caught a line drive and Pleasants recorded a strikeout to end the inning.
- Freeland's two-out single in the seventh scored Gore and extended Marist's lead to 4-1.
- Hamilton's two-out homer with one out in the bottom of the seventh made the score 4-3, but Pleasants recorded the final two outs on a line drive to McDonald and strikeout.
- Freeland went 2-for-4, and finished the day with four hits.
- Pleasants pitched a complete game with five strikeouts and just one walk issued.
- The Red Foxes are now 6-2 in one-run games this season.
- Marist is currently scheduled to return to action when it opens Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference play in two weeks.
- The Red Foxes will play a doubleheader at Niagara on Saturday, April 2 starting at noon, and a doubleheader at Canisius on Sunday, April 3 starting at 11 a.m.
