POUGHKEEPSIE, New York – Marist University senior center fielder Peyton Pusey was named Jersey Mike's Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Softball Player of the Week for the second straight week on Monday.
 
In Marist's 5-0 week, Peyton Pusey hit .571 (12-fo-21) with a 1.523 OPS, which included a .952 slugging percentage. She hit two homers, drove in five runs, scored five runs, had two doubles, and stole two bases. She hit safely in every game, with four multi-hit contests. 
 
Pusey went 2-for-4 with a stolen base in the first game of a doubleheader at Manhattan on Wednesday, a 10-2 Marist win. In the second game, she went 4-for-5 with three RBIs, three runs scored, two home runs (the third two-homer game of her career), a double, and a stolen base in the Red Foxes' 12-3 victory. In the first game of a doubleheader against Siena on Friday, Pusey went 3-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI in Marist's 5-4 win. Her two-out single in the third was the start of a four-run rally that tied the game, and her RBI single with two outs in the fourth brought home what proved to be the game-winning run. In game two against Siena, she doubled to lead off the bottom of the first in a 5-4 Marist victory. In Saturday's third game of the series, she went 2-for-4 with a run scored in Marist's 11-3 win. 
 
Pusey handled 11 chances in center field without committing an error, which included three assists. One came in the top of the seventh in game two against Siena, as she threw out Emma Petersen heading to second after her two-out single tied the game. Marist then scored the winning run in the bottom half of the inning. In Wednesday's second game at Manhattan, she played in her program-record 220th career game.
 
Pusey has won three MAAC weekly awards this season, and six in her career.
 
Marist concluded the regular season with 12 MAAC weekly awards:
 

• May 4: Peyton Pusey (Player of the Week)
• April 28: Peyton Pusey (Player of the Week)
• April 14: Livia Wiltsie (Rookie of the Week)
• March 31: Maia Salvo (Rookie of the Week)
• March 17: Peyton Pusey (Player of the Week)
• March 10: Ava Metzger (Pitcher of the Week)
• March 3: Sienna Kunze (Player of the Week), Ava Metzger (Pitcher of the Week)
• Feb. 24: Livia Wiltsie (Rookie of the Week)
• Feb. 17: Haley Ahr (Player of the Week), Stella Blanchard (Pitcher of the Week)
• Feb. 10: Annabelle Geiser (Rookie of the Week)

 
Marist (34-19) enters this week's MAAC Championship at Gartland Field as the #1 seed with 14 straight wins. The Red Foxes are scheduled to open championship play on Thursday at 12:30 p.m. against the winner of #4 Sacred Heart and #5 Quinnipiac, which is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. Wednesday.