POUGHKEEPSIE, New York – Freshman Annabelle Geiser of the Marist University softball team was named Jersey Mike's Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Co-Rookie of the Week on Tuesday.
 
Geiser hit a team-leading .563 (9-for-16) with a 1.275 OPS (.650 on-base, .625 slugging) as Marist opened the season by going 3-2 in tournament play in South Carolina last weekend. She scored nine runs, drove in four, stole three bases, had a double, and drew four walks against just one strikeout. Geiser scored a run in all five games last weekend.
 
Against College of Charleston on Friday, she went 4-for-5 with three RBIs, two runs scored, and a double in Marist's 6-5 win in eight innings. Her RBI single tied the game in the sixth, and her RBI double in the eighth put Marist ahead for good. The following day, she went 1-for-3 with two runs scored and a walk in Marist's 12-2 win over George Mason, and then went 2-for-2 with three runs scored, three stolen bases, an RBI, and two walks in a 14-3 win at Charleston Southern. She closed out her first collegiate weekend by going 2-for-4 with a run scored against Charleston Southern on Sunday.
 
Marist, ranked #20 in the D1Softball Mid-Major Poll, returns to action with five games from Friday through Sunday at the Lion Invitational, hosted by East Texas A&M.