Huskies Fall to Marshall

Friday, February 27

Lynchburg, VA

10:30 AM

University of Connecticut

3-12

Marshall

10-8

UConn

Marshall

Photo by: Charlotte Ottaiano

2/27/2026 7:09:00 PM | Softball

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LYNCHBURG, Va. – The UConn softball team dropped their first two games of the Liberty Invitational against the Marshall Herd on Friday. The Huskies lost game one on a walk-off walk, 5-4. Game two was also tightly contested, but Marshall came out on top, 3-1.

Game One

Graduate Jessica Walter (Middletown, Del.) made her 6^th start of the season in game one for the Huskies. Walter went 3.0 innings in the circle, giving up three runs on six hits, adding a pair of strikeouts.

UConn jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the top of the 1^st inning off the bat of Kaitlyn Breslin (Hopkinton, Mass.). The junior outfielder crushed a two-run homer run to left field, her second of the season.

Sophomore catcher Heidi Barber (Lino Lakes, Minn.) added to the Huskies lead in the 2^nd inning with a sacrifice fly, scoring Kaitlyn Kibling (LaFayette, N.Y.) from third base, making it 3-0.

Breslin homered again in the top of the 4^th inning, a solo shot to center field, extending the UConn lead to 4-0. This marks the second career multi-home run game for Breslin, giving her a team high three long balls this season.

Marshall battled back in the bottom of the 4^th inning, plating four runs to knot the game at 4-4.

Sophomore Alexandra Bacher (Ridgefield, Conn.) came on in relief for Walter during the 4^th inning. Bacher managed to quiet the Herd lineup, retiring nine straight hitters from the 4^th to the 6^th inning. She went 3.0 innings giving up a pair of runs on three hits with two strikeouts.

The score remained tied at 4-4 until the bottom of the 7^th inning, when Marshall pushed across the game-winning run, handing UConn a 5-4 defeat.

News and Notes

Kaitlyn Breslin recorded her second career multi-home run game. She also posted her second multi-hit and multi-RBI games this season.
Cat Petteys has recorded a hit in four straight games.
Caylee De Meo has recorded a hit in her last three straight games.
For the fourth game this season, UConn's defense did not commit an error.

Game Two

Freshman Caprice Bohmer (Ashburn, Va.) got the ball in game two, making her 7^th start of the season for the Huskies. Bohmer went the distance in the circle, tossing her third complete game this season, giving up three runs on seven hits, adding six strikeouts.

Marshall opened the scoring in the top of the 3^rd inning, giving the Herd a 1-0 lead.

Bohmer settled in after giving up the run, retiring the next nine straight Herd hitters.

UConn quickly responded in the bottom of the 3^rd inning off the bat of sophomore catcher Heidi Barber who hit her first career home run, a towering solo shot to left center, knotting the game at 1-1.

Both Marshall and UConn struggled to generate runs off the starting pitchers, with both teams combining for just three hits between the 4^th and 6^th innings. There were a total of five 1-2-3 innings in the game.

Marshall took the lead in the top of the 7^th inning, scoring two runs to make it 3-1.

UConn continued to fight, bringing the go-ahead run to the plate in the bottom of the 7^th inning, but could not find a key hit to keep the game alive.

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