TAMPA, Florida – The Marist softball team rallied from a four-run deficit in the late innings but fell 10-9 to Lehigh in its final game of the South Florida Showdown on Sunday.
 

Summary

• Peyton Pusey led off the game with a walk, stole second, advanced to third on an error, and scored the game's first run on Haley Ahr's sacrifice fly.
• Josie Charles' RBI single tied the score in the bottom of the first.
• Hannah Brock drew a leadoff walk in the second and came home on Kaitlyn Husic's two-run homer.
• Lehigh scored six in the bottom of the fourth, aided by two Marist errors.
• After Pusey had a leadoff single and Maddie Pleasants drew a two-out walk, Reese Wilson's three-run homer cut Marist's deficit to 7-6 in the fifth.
• Lehigh scored three in the bottom of the fifth, which included an RBI double by Charles, and extended its lead to 10-6.
• Haley Ahr's two-run ground-rule double brought home Isabella Manory and Husic and cut Marist's deficit to 10-8 in the sixth.
• Shea Walsh scored on a wild pitch to make the score 10-9 in the top of the seventh.
• The Red Foxes had the go-ahead run on base in the seventh, but the game ended on a double play.

 

Stats

• Husic went 2-for-3 with a homer, walk, two RBIs, and two runs scored.
• Ahr and Wilson each drove in three.
• Pusey was 1-for-3 with two runs scored, a stolen base, and a walk.
• Brock was 2-for-3 with a double, run scored, and a walk.
• Pleasants started in the circle and went the first 4.2. Meghan Haff pitched 1.1 scoreless of relief.
• Charles led Lehigh by going 3-for-4 with two RBIs and a double.

 

Records

• Marist is now 8-18 on the season.
• Lehigh improved to 18-6.

 

Up Next

• Marist returns to action with a doubleheader at Delaware State on Wednesday, March 29.
• First pitch of game one is set for 1 p.m.