EASTON, Pa. – Lafayette closed out its 2024 home schedule with a 6-5, come-from-behind triumph over a 34-win Marist team on Wednesday afternoon.
 
Soph. Megan Coyle drove in four runs in the day's second game, including a go-ahead, three-run home run in the fifth inning. Coyle was battling in the box before launching the eighth pitch of the at-bat over the wall in left field for her fifth home run of the season.
 
In the sixth, she plated another run with an RBI-single and was followed by Regan Dillon's two-run double down the line. Lafayette led 6-3 entering the seventh inning.
 
Those additional runs proved crucial, as Marist pushed across three runs in the top of the seventh before senior Kailee Sawai was able to get a flyout to centerfield where the steady hands of Mary Grace O'Neill officially put things away.
 
Sawai collected the save, pitching the final two innings, allowing three runs on two hits. Classmate Jacqueline Cal turned in a strong performance in her final time in the circle at Metzgar Fields, striking out five while allowing two runs on four hits over five innings for the win.  
 
Marist took the initial game of the doubleheader, 9-3. Things were quiet through the first two innings before the Red Foxes got on the scoreboard with a pair of sac flies aided by two Leopard errors in the third.
 
Lafayette answered with three runs to take its only lead of the game. A pair of walks drawn by Marisa Powell and O'Neill started the inning. Coyle singled in both of them to knot the game at 2-2. With runners on first and second, Paige Sandidge hit a ball up the middle that scored Coyle as the Red Foxes unsuccessfully tried to turn a double play.
 
The fifth inning proved to be decisive. Marist scored seven runs on five hits and a pair of Leopard errors. Samantha Rodgers delivered the big blow of the inning with a bases-clearing, three -run double to the gap in left center field to push the final to 9-3.
 
Parker Rowden took the loss in the circle, allowing five earned runs on six hits over four innings. Morrigan Gardiner (0 ER, 4 H, 2 K) tossed the final three innings. Anna Sidlowski was the winner, striking out four while holding the Maroon and White scoreless over the final four frames.
 
Lafayette wraps up the 2024 regular season with a three-game weekend series at Holy Cross. First pitch both days is slated for noon.