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Benjamin Berkes
13
Winner Rochester Inst. ROCHESTE 3-2
3
New Jersey City NEW JERS 0-3
Winner
Rochester Inst. ROCHESTE
3-2
13
Final
3
New Jersey City NEW JERS
0-3
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
Rochester Inst. ROCHESTE 3 3 3 0 4 13 10 1
New Jersey City NEW JERS 2 1 0 0 0 3 6 5

W: Madore, Crystal (1-2) L: S. Miller (0-1)

10
RIT RIT 3-3
11
Winner Rockford University RU 2-0
RIT RIT
3-3
10
Final
11
Rockford University RU
2-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
RIT RIT 1 3 2 1 2 0 1 10 14 0
Rockford University RU 4 0 3 2 0 0 2 11 16 4

W: Martinez, Mariah (2-0) L: Pieri, Lexi (2-1)

Game Recap: Softball |

Softball defeats NJCU, 13-1 (5 inn.), falls to Rockford, 11-10

FORT MYERS, Fla. – The RIT softball team split a pair of high-scoring games on the third day of action at the Gene Cusic Classic, Tuesday, moving past New Jersey City, 13-1 (5 inn.), before falling late in an 11-10 setback to Rockford.
 
GAME 1 – RIT 13, NJCU 3 (5 inn.)
  • First-year Chloe McManus went 2-for-3 with two runs scored and an RBI while first-year Maddy Cook and junior Alexis Smith each scored two runs and knocked in two RBI to lead RIT to the 10-run victory in Tuesday's opener.
  • RIT built a 9-3 lead by plating three runs in each of the first three innings. Eight of the runs were scored with two outs over the course of the opening three innings.
  • RIT put the game out of reach with four more runs in the top of the fifth, including RBI hits by McManus, first-year Erin Ozminkowski, and back-to-back RBI ground-outs by senior Haley Czerwinski and first-year Bailey Kehl.
  • First-year Crystal Madore earned her first victory in a Tiger uniform, holding NJCU to an earned run on six hits while striking out two batters in five innings of work. 
GAME 2 – ROCKFORD 11, RIT 10
  • RIT senior Hannah Trumble finished 4-for-5 with an RBI and scored four runs while McManus was 2-for-5 with a run scored and two RBI in a game which featured six lead changes.
  • Trumble led off the game with a triple and came around to score on a sacrifice fly by first-year Kylie Aquaro.
  • Rockford answered with four runs on five hits in the bottom of the inning before the Tigers plated three in the second to re-tie the game. First-year Lillian Rienstra plated two runs with a triple, before Trumble brought Rienstra home with an RBI hit.
  • RIT forged a 6-4 lead with two runs in the third on a sacrifice fly by Czerwinski and an RBI single by sophomore Elise Guth.
  • Rockford scored three times in the bottom of the third for a 7-6 lead before McManus brought home a run in the top of the fourth to tie the game, 7-7.
  • Rockford scored twice in the bottom of the fourth, but the Tigers plated two in the top of the fifth on back-to-back RBI singles by Aquaro and Cook to re-tie the game, 9-9.
  • McManus brought home Trumble with a go-ahead single in the top of the seventh, but Rockford brought two across in the bottom half of the inning to seal the win. 
WHAT'S NEXT
After a day off Wednesday, RIT takes on Immaculata (9:00 a.m.) and Western Connecticut (11:00 a.m) on Thursday (Mar. 10) in Fort Meyers.