Dukes Drop Saturday Afternoon Contest With App State

Saturday, March 29

Harrisonburg, Va.

1 p.m.

James Madison University

11-19, 0-8

App State

12-20, 3-5

App State

James Madison

3/29/2025 4:43:00 PM | Softball

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HARRISONBURG, Va. – James Madison softball tied a season-high with three home runs, but App State put up 13 runs on 14 hits to down the Dukes in the second game of its three-game set in six innings by a score of 13-5 in Sun Belt Conference play on Saturday afternoon at Veterans Memorial Park.

Makayla McClain had another stellar performance for App State (12-20, 3-5 SBC), going 3-for-4 at the plate with a three-run home run and driving in a career-high five runs.

Hannah Hennessy, Payton List, and Jasmine Hall all hit the ball out of the park for JMU (11-19, 0-8 SBC), the fourth time this season the Dukes have hit three home runs in a game.

The closest the Dukes came to App State was following Hall's fifth home run of the year, when the two-run shot made it a four-run ballgame, but the Mountaineers proceeded to score four runs in the final two frames, leading to the 13-5 rout.

List's two-run home run was her ninth of the year, tying her 2024 total and her eighth multi-RBI game of the 2025 campaign.

Morgan Mesaros took her first at-bat in 384 days and cranked a double to left center field, ahead of the List home run in the third inning.

How it Happened

Second Inning

McClain singled down the left field line with the bases loaded to score two, for the 2-0 App State lead

Top of the Third Inning

Taylor Chumbley and Julia Girk each had RBI singles with the bases loaded to extend the Mountaineers lead to 4-0
Girk came around to score on a wild pitch to make it 5-0 App State
McClain struck again, this time with a three-run home run to left field, putting the Mountaineers up eight in the third.
Leah Gore singled to center field to bring another runner home for App State, 9-0

Bottom of the Third Inning

Hennessy hit a solo shot to center field to put the Dukes on the board, 9-1
With one-out List drilled a two-run shot to left-center field, to edge the Dukes closer, 9-3

Fourth Inning

Hall hit the Dukes' third home run of the game; Another two-run shot to make it a four-run ballgame.

Fifth Inning

Grace Barrett singled to right field to put the Mountaineers in double-digits
Gore followed suit with a solo homer to left field to make 12-5

Sixth Inning

App State successfully executed a double steal to head into run-rule territory, 13-5

Game Notes

Hennessy's home run in the third inning was her first home run since facing Georgia State on April 6, 2023
With her fifth home run of the season in the bottom of the fourth inning, Hall needs four more home runs to tie Julia Dominguez (2006-09) for tenth all-time in program history with 30 in her career.
Hall also earned her third multi-RBI game, needing just 11 more to encapsulate 100 in her career
Saturday's contest against the Mountaineers marked the first time the Dukes lost a game in which they hit three or more home runs this season (Penn State, Binghamton, Fordham)
James Madison's two-homer third was the third inning this season it hit two or more home runs in a single inning.