Gators Battle With SUNY Geneseo in Friday Afternoon Doubleheader
Russell Sage College softball battled with SUNY Geneseo in a doubleheader on Friday afternoon, falling twice, 8-0 and 7-5.
Game 1
Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | R | H | E |
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1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 9 | 1 |
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
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0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 0 |
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0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 5 |
ALBANY, N.Y. – Russell Sage College softball battled with SUNY Geneseo in a doubleheader on Friday afternoon, falling twice, 8-0 and 7-5.
Junior pitcher Leah Madore (Williamsville, VT/Brattleboro Union) (7-8) got the start for the Gators in game one, punching out five in her five innings of work. The lone RSC hit came off the bat of freshman outfielder Carmela DeMaio (East Brunswick, NJ/East Brunswick) in the third inning.
The Gators trailed 4-2 heading into the bottom of the sixth, before sophomore infielder Annalise Tyler (Schenectady, NY/Schalmont) ripped a run-scoring single and freshman Emily Markowski (Clifton Park, NY/Shenendehowa) hit a two-run double to give RSC a 5-4 advantage.
The Knights tacked on three to regain the lead in the top of the seventh, and shut down Russell Sage in the bottom half to complete the doubleheader sweep.
RSC (12-20/8-8 E8) is slated to host SUNY Brockport on Sunday afternoon for 'Senior Day'.
Gator Bites with Papa John's: RSC looks to return to the Empire 8 Conference Championship Tournament for the fifth-straight spring…12 returnees combine with eight newcomers on this year's roster…Senior outfielder Madalyn Ring (Gansevoort, NY/South Glens Falls), sophomore infielder Annalise Tyler (Schenectady, NY/Schalmont), and junior pitcher Leah Madore (Williamsville, VT/Brattleboro Union) highlight the returning Gators…Madore and Tyler earned second-team All-E8 honors last spring, while Ring made third-team All-Conference…Madore punched out 154 batters across 174 innings, both single-season program records in 2024..The righty became the program's all-time leader for career strikeouts in the complete game shutout of visiting Saint John Fisher on April 4…She was chosen the E8 Pitcher of the Week for the period ending Sunday, April 6…Madore went 3-0 and whiffed 15 batters across 15.0 scoreless innings…The right-hander tossed no-hitters in back-to-back E8 starts vs. Keuka and Hartwick on April 19 and April 21…She opened the week ranked second in the E8 with 108 strikeouts…Ring commenced the season with 43 career stolen bases, good for fourth in RSC records…Tyler began the weekend ranked second in the Conference with 44 hits…RSC opened its spring with eight contests in Florida between March 10-14… Sophomore outfielder Bella Julian (Cicero, NY/Cicero North-Syracuse) led the Gators with a .500 batting average during the time in the "Sunshine State"…She commenced the week with a program-record and Conference-leading eight triples…Sophomore infielder/outfielder Allison Kenyon (Mechanicville, NY/Mechanicville), Ring, and junior catcher/outfielder Emma Heartquist (Stuyvesant, NY/Ichabod Crane) comprise the team's Leadership Committee.
