POUGHKEEPSIE, New York – The Marist University softball team (13-13 overall, 7-1 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) is headed to Mount St. Mary's (6-18 overall, 3-2 MAAC) for a Tuesday doubleheader.
First pitch of game one is set for 1 p.m. Both games will be shown on ESPN+.
- Marist and Mount did not play in the 2025 season.
- Since Mount joined the MAAC for the 2023 season, the teams have split their six meetings.
- Mount earned a home doubleheader sweep in the 2023 regular season.
- Marist earned a 4-2 win a MAAC quarterfinal match-up in 2023.
- Marist took two out of three in a 2024 home series.
- Marist won two out of three in a home series against Saint Peter's this past weekend.
- The Red Foxes won 3-0 and 8-0 (six innings) in Saturday's doubleheader, but the Peacocks earned a 7-5 victory on Sunday.
- Haley Ahr (.389) leads Marist in batting average. Ahr is hitting .444 (12-for-27) in March.
- Samantha Rogers and Sienna Kunze each had two homers in the Saint Peter's series, with Rogers leading the Red Foxes with six RBIs this past weekend.
- Kunze is hitting .438 (7-for-16) with three homers and nine RBIs in her last five games.
- Ava Metzger has won her last four starts, and has allowed just one earned run over 28 innings with 31 strikeouts in that span.
- Metzger and Stella Blanchard are each 3-0 against MAAC opponents this season. Blanchard has allowed just one earned run in 18 innings in conference games.
- Mount last faced Fairfield in a three-game series. The Stags took the first two games, but Mount bounced back for a 4-0 win in the series finale.
- Mount opened MAAC play with a two-game sweep of Merrimack on March 8.
- Avery Dinges leads Mount in batting average (.403), OPS (1.034), runs scored (17), doubles (six), and stolen bases (21).
- Tristin Koerner has team highs in home runs (two) and RBIs (11).
- Emmaleigh Zagrodnicheck leads Mount in ERA (3.61) and innings pitched.
- Marist has a bye from MAAC play this weekend.
- The Red Foxes will play in the Mizuno Showdown, hosted by the University of North Carolina.
- Marist will play a total of four games on Friday and Saturday, with contests on both days against Arizona State and North Carolina.
