GREENSBORO, North Carolina- The Marist baseball team earned its first win of the 2025 season, Saturday afternoon. The Red Foxes defeated NC A&T in the second game of the series 13-3.
Brady Steinert led the Red Foxes with four hits and three runs batted in apiece.
Will Taylor had a dominant performance in the Red Foxes win. Taylor pitched seven innings, allowing two earned runs. Taylor struck out five batters in the win.
The Red Foxes improved to 1-8 on the 2025 season.
- In the bottom-half of the first inning, NC A&T took an early lead with two runs on three hits.
- The Red Foxes trailed 2-0 after one inning of play.
- In the top-half of the second inning, the Red Foxes cut into the Aggies lead with a run on three hits.
- Will Taylor threw a scoreless second inning, which kept the score at 2-1 in favor of the Aggies. Taylor threw a second consecutive scoreless inning, which kept the score 2-1 after three innings of play.
- The Red Foxes outhit the Aggies 4-3 through the first three innings of play.
- Brady Steinert recorded a two-run single, which gave the Red Foxes a 3-2 lead in the top-half of the fourth inning.
- Luke Monico tallied his first-career RBI single and extended the Red Foxes lead 4-2.
- An error scored Dylan Millman in the inning, which added to the Red Foxes lead 5-2.
- The Red Foxes scored four runs on four hits in the top-half of the inning.
- Scott Esposito added to the Red Foxes lead with an RBI single in the top-half of the fifth inning. The hit marked Esposito's second RBI single of the game.
- The Red Foxes led 6-2 after five innings of play.
- Two sacrifice flies from Lewis Rodriguez and Zach Donahue extended the Red Foxes lead in the top of the sixth inning.
- After a fifth-straight scoreless inning from Taylor, the Red Foxes led 8-2.
- The Red Foxes added five more runs to their lead in the top-half of the eighth inning.
- Monico scored on an error from the NC A&T, which made the lead 9-2.
- The Red Foxes once again scored on an error, which extended their lead 10-2.
- Two runs scored by Jason Claiborn and Nathan Lincoln extended the Red Foxes lead 12-2 on the third error of the inning.
- Steinert added to the lead with an RBI double and extended the Red Foxes lead 13-2 after eight innings of play.
- NC A&T scored a run on a solo home run in the bottom-half of the ninth, cutting into the Red Foxes lead 13-3.
- The Red Foxes won their first game of 2025 in dominant fashion 13-3.
- Will Taylor pitched seven dominant innings, allowing two earned runs.
- Taylor tallied five strikeouts in the win against the Aggies.
- The Red Foxes scored a season-high 13 runs on 15 hits in the win.
- Brady Steinert led the Red Foxes with a four hit day and added three RBIs.
- Scott Esposito tallied three hits and two RBIs in the win.
- Luke Monico recorded two hits, and a run batted in for the Red Foxes.
- The Red Foxes play their series finale against NC A&T on March 2.
- The game is slated for 1 p.m.
