{"id":210500,"date":"2026-04-26T20:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/210500\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T20:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:08:08","slug":"softball-defeats-manhattan-on-senior-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/210500\/","title":{"rendered":"Softball Defeats Manhattan on Senior Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/M_University.png\" alt=\"Mercyhurst\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p> Mercyhurst<\/p>\n<p>4\/27\/2026 | 2:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Apr. 27 (Mon) \/ 2:00 p.m.&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/M_University.png\" alt=\"Mercyhurst\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        \u00a0Mercyhurst&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/purpleeagles.com\/sports\/softball\/opponent-history\/mercyhurst\/59\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Niagara University, N.Y. &#8211;\u00a0Softball took down Manhattan 4-3 as they\u00a0took\u00a0the three-game weekend series 2-1 at Niagara Field in Niagara University, N.Y.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Niagara got on the board first as they recorded three runs as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/purpleeagles.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/donnalea-barnett\/9396\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9396\" target=\"_blank\">Donnalea Barnett<\/a> along with <a href=\"https:\/\/purpleeagles.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/ella-moore\/9402\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9402\" target=\"_blank\">Ella Moore<\/a> scored off the bat of senior <a href=\"https:\/\/purpleeagles.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/sophia-marrero\/8885\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8885\" target=\"_blank\">Sophia Marrero<\/a>. Marrero would then come around to score\u00a0off of\u00a0fellow classmate <a href=\"https:\/\/purpleeagles.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/jolyn-gibbons\/8880\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8880\" target=\"_blank\">Jolyn Gibbons<\/a>,\u00a0who doubled to right field\u00a0to take a 3-0 advantage over Manhattan.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Senior <a href=\"https:\/\/purpleeagles.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/hailey-cenname\/8878\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8878\" target=\"_blank\">Hailey Cenname<\/a> flied out to center field in\u00a0a sacrifice\u00a0effort to score Barnett to put the Purple and White up 4-0 in the fifth inning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Jaspers would get their first runs of the game in the seventh inning as Samantha Kelly tripled to score Brianna Estevez. Natalye\u00a0DeBus\u00a0then\u00a0doubled\u00a0to score\u00a0Kelly,\u00a0Lainey Brown drove the final run home for Manhattan as Madison Douglass scored\u00a0as Niagara came away victorious 4-3.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/purpleeagles.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/jenna-martin\/8893\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8893\" target=\"_blank\">Jenna Martin<\/a> pitched all seven innings as she faced 32 batters as she struck out\u00a0four\u00a0in the winning effort.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Niagara Notes\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Niagara improves to 38-44 all-time against Manhattan\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Purple Eagles recorded their fourth triple of the season\u00a0as Barnett recorded her second of the season\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Martin recorded her first win on the year and the third of her career\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Martin recorded a career best in strikeouts with\u00a0four\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Up Next\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Niagara Softball is back in action tomorrow Monday, April 27th as they take on Mercyhurst for a doubleheader action with first pitch slatted for 2 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: Mercyhurst 4\/27\/2026 | 2:00 p.m. &#13; Apr. 27 (Mon) \/ 2:00 p.m.&#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-210500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}