POUGHKEEPSIE, New York – The Marist University softball team dropped the final of a three-game Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference series to Saint Peter's by a score of 7-5 at Gartland Field on Sunday.
 

Summary

• In the bottom of the first, Annabelle Geiser drew a one-out walk, and she scored on Samantha Rogers' sacrifice fly.
• Summer Solitaria's two-run double in the second gave Saint Peter's a 2-1 lead.
• Sienna Kunze led off the fourth with an infield single, and she scored the tying run on Lily Roumelis' groundout.
• After the fourth inning, there was a rain delay of one hour, 55 minutes.
• Peyton Pusey led off the fifth with a walk, and Haley Ahr's RBI single brought her home to give Marist a 3-2 advantage.
• Saint Peter's took the lead for good with a three-run sixth. Steph Bendzlowicz delivered a two-run single in the inning. The Peacocks then tacked on two more in the seventh to go up 7-3.
• Rogers delivered a two-run homer in the bottom of the seventh to account for the game's final runs.

 

Stats

• Marist had seven hits, led by Ahr with two.
• Rogers drove in three runs.
• Pusey reached three times, with a hit and two walks.
• For Saint Peter's, Morgan Lipansky went the distance in the circle with five strikeouts.

 

Records

• Marist is 13-13 overall and 7-1 in the MAAC.
• Saint Peter's is 4-12 overall and 1-5 in conference play.

 

Up Next

• Marist travels to Mount St. Mary's for a MAAC doubleheader on Tuesday.
• First pitch of game one is set for 1 p.m.