The Marist Red Foxes entered Friday on a 19-game winning streak, the longest in all of NCAA Division I softball. Siena -riding a season-long seven-game heater- was unfazed by the 2024 regular season Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) champions, handing the Red Foxes their first loss since February with a 3-2 win in eight innings in game on Friday afternoon from Siena Softball Field. Game two was halted due to darkness with the score tied 3-3 entering the ninth inning, and was later ruled a tie after the game could not resume. 
 
Siena 3, Marist 2 (8)
 
Alissa Eimont surrendered an early two runs through rough conditions as Marist claimed a 2-0 lead after the top of the first inning. She settled in thereafter, retiring six of the next seven batters she faced to keep the Saints within striking distance. 
 
While Eimont found her rhythm, her offense handed her a run in the bottom of the first when Emma Petersen doubled in McKenzie Swinson with one out in the frame. Swinson accounted for three of the team's nine hits in the game. 
 
Then in the third, Gracie Goewey tied the score on a sacrifice fly to also plate Swinson. From there, Eimont and Kiley Myers of Marist went toe-to-toe in a duel that lasted until the eighth inning. After Eimont set Marist down in order for the second time in three innings, Siena struck in the home half. 
 
Goewey opened the eighth with a double to left, while Petersen was intentionally walked. After a groundout advanced the runners, Gianna DiMeglio put the ball in play to second base, and a muffed play allowed pinch-runner Jazlyn Small-Yu to score the game-winning run from third. 
 
The loss was also the first for Marist in conference play, as well as the first for Myers on the season as she was previously 15-0, and led the nation in ERA entering the day. 
 
Siena 3, Marist 3 (8)
 
Kaycie Kennedy left the Red Foxes stranded in the first inning before surrendering her first runs of the game in, and worked relatively quickly in the second with one hit allowed before giving up her first run in the third on a bases loaded walk. 
 
Meanwhile, Maddie Pleasants kept the Saints without a hit through the first three frames, striking out seven in the process. Marist gave their pitcher two more in the top of the fourth thanks to a pair of unearned runs on a double to left field, ending Kennedy's day and starting Gracie Goewey's. The sophomore Goewey put a stop to the inning with the Red Foxes up 3-0. 
 
Carlie Venables notched Siena's first hit of the game with one out in the fifth, immediately leading to the team's first run of the game by way of an Ella Milante RBI triple. Milante then came right home when Lauren Melton singled up the gut to make it a 3-2 game. 
 
As Goewy's arm kept the Saints within one, the game moved into the seventh with the team still trailing by one. Milante walked to start the bottom half, and Mary Mikalsen came in to pinch-run. She advanced to second when Melton got on first on a fielding error on a sacrifice bunt attempt. 
 
With two on and none away, Swinson advanced the pair - allowing Chloe Cummings to drive in Mikalsen from third on a base hit up the middle to even the game. Melton was thrown out at home going for the game-winning run, however. 
 
After a scoreless eighth, the umpires halted the game due to darkness. While the game was scheduled to resume on Sunday, Apr. 13, the teams could not play due to field conditionas, ending the game in a 3-3 tie.