RSC to Begin E8 Tournament Run on Tuesday
ALBANY, N.Y. – Russell Sage College begins its 2025 Empire 8 Conference Championship Tournament run on Tuesday at home against SUNY Poly.
ALBANY, N.Y. – Russell Sage College begins its 2025 Empire 8 Conference Championship Tournament run on Tuesday against SUNY Poly.
2025 Empire 8 Conference Championship Tournament First Round: Gators (Six Seed) vs. SUNY Poly (Seven Seed)
Tuesday May 6, 2025 | 4:00 PM | Cooperstown All Star Village, Oneonta, N.Y. | Live Stats | Live Video
Admission (Cash Only at the Venue): $6.00 – Adults | $4.00 – Students and Seniors with Valid ID | Free – Children under 12
#6 RSC Gators (16-23/12-10 E8): Roster| Stats
#7 SUNY Poly (18-15/12-10 E8): Roster | Stats
RSC Softball in the Empire 8 Conference Championship Tournament History: RSC swept a home doubleheader from SUNY Brockport on April 27 to secure a spot in the E8 Tournament for the fifth-straight spring. The run of playoff appearances includes a trip to the finals in 2023.
Head Coach Stephanie McKay After Clinching a Playoff Spot: "I am very happy we could get the two wins on Senior Day. It's a great way to send the seniors out and hope we can continue the momentum through the end of the regular season and into the postseason."
Regular Season vs. SUNY Poly Recap: April 30 at SUNY Poly: Gators 5, Wildcats 4 | Gators 3, Wildcats 1
Gator Bites with Papa John's: 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…In 2024, Madore punched out 154 batters across 174 innings, which were both single-season program records...The righty established a new school single-season strikeout standard on May 2 at Nazareth, currently 156 and counting...She became the program's all-time leader for career strikeouts in the complete game shutout of visiting Saint John Fisher on April 4…Madore headed into the playoffs with 368 career K's and 413.2 innings pitched...The righty became just the second Gator pitcher to eclipse 400.0 career innings pitched in the E8 doubleheader sweep at SUNY Poly on April 30...She surpassed 350 career K's on April 29 vs. Union...The junior closed the regular season with 156 strikeouts, 121.0 innings pitched and a 2.95 ERA...The marks ranked third, third, and sixth respectively in the Conference...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 the shutout wins at Keuka on April 19 and at Hartwick on April 22…Tyler began the playoffs atop the Conference with 58 hits…She ranked fifth in the E8 with 17 stolen bases, sixth with 39 runs scored and sixth with 12 doubles...The sophomore sat eighth in the Conference with a .443 batting average and 74 total bases...E8 hurlers had difficulty in getting the RSC leadoff batter out this spring...She hit .513, more than 30 points better than any second basemen in the Conference, and registered a 1.207 ops in E8 play...Looking deeper into the numbers among E8 keystone players, Tyler headed into the playoffs leading her positional comps in overall batting average, hits, stolen bases, doubles, total bases...Accounting for just Conference games, she topped second basemen in average, hits, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, doubles, ops, and total bases...Ring commenced the postseason with 56 career stolen bases, good for third in RSC records...She had career hit number 100 on April 29 vs. Union...The outfielder had a .350 batting average and an .409 on-base percentage during the regular season...She swiped 13 bases, good for sixth in the Conference…RSC opened its spring with eight contests in Florida between March 10-14…Junior infielder Hannah Smith (Clifton Park, NY/Shenendehowa/Saint Rose) drove in a team-high 25 runs this spring...She sat second on the Gators in hits with 40 and doubles with 11...The 11 two-base hits during the regular season tied for seventh in the Conference...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 playoffs with a Conference-best and program single-season record 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.
Up Next: The winner heads to Saint John Fisher to begin the double-elimination portion of the Tournament on Thursday.
