POUGHKEEPSIE, New York –
Haley Ahr and
Kiley Myers of the Marist University softball team both earned Jersey Mike's Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference weekly honors on Tuesday.
Ahr was named Player of the Week, and Myers won Pitcher of the Week for the third straight week.
Haley Ahr hit .588 (10-for-17) with a 1.787 OPS (1.176 slugging, .611 on-base) and 12 RBIs in five games as Marist went 3-2 in the Stetson Invitational. Ahr contributed four doubles, two home runs, four runs scored, and a walk. She hit safely and had at least one RBI in all five games, and enjoyed three multi-hit games. Against LIU on Friday, her grand slam broke the game open in the fourth inning, as she went 3-for-3 with four RBIs and two runs scored while adding a double. On Saturday, she had an RBI single against #25 Florida Atlantic. Later that day, she went 2-for-4 with two RBIs and a double in a victory over host Stetson. She closed out the tournament by going 3-for-3 with four RBIs, a homer, a double, and a walk as she drove in the Red Foxes' first four runs in a 5-0 triumph over LIU on Sunday.
Ahr has now won 11 MAAC weekly awards in her career, and this is her sixth Player of the Week honor.
Kiley Myers pitched a no-hitter against LIU and earned a complete game win at Stetson - which has been ranked as high as #8 in the D1Softball Mid-Major Poll this season - in her two appearances this past week. For the week, Myers was 2-0 with an 0.58 ERA and 0.83 WHIP, and she did not walk a batter in 12 innings of work. Against LIU on Feb. 21, she needed just 51 pitches in her five-inning outing, which included two strikeouts. She allowed just one baserunner, and then retired the final 10 Sharks she faced. At Stetson on Feb. 22, Myers needed just 83 pitches to get through seven innings, and struck out two while allowing just one earned run in Marist's 6-2 victory.
Myers has now won 14 MAAC weekly awards in her career, including 12 Pitcher of the Week honors.
The Marist softball team has now earned seven MAAC weekly awards this season. Three different Red Foxes have won Player of the Week the last three weeks:
Marist returns to action next weekend with five games in the Coach Cooke Memorial Tournament, hosted by Winthrop, from Friday through Sunday. The Red Foxes will face Southern Indiana, Winthrop, Youngstown State, Charlotte, and St. Bonaventure.
