OMAHA, NE – Jessie Niegocki (Marana, AZ/Mountain View), Jadeyn Merrill (Lamesa, TX/Lamesa) and Kendall Reda-Fehsal (Succasunna, NJ/Roxbury) had two hits each in a 6-0 Broncs win over Kansas City, before the Rider University softball team fell to host Nebraska Omaha, 4-0, to split a pair of games Sunday at the Connie Claussen Classic. With the split, the Broncs move to 5-7, while the Roos fell to 6-17 and the Mavericks improved to 16-7.

Against Kansas City, Niegocki opened the scoring in the top of the first. She reached on a leadoff single, took second on a passed ball and scored on consecutive wild pitches with two out to make it 1-0 Rider after one. After two scoreless frames, the Broncs pushed three runs across in the fourth. Consecutive doubles from Reda-Fehsal and Merrill scored the first run, before a Kristyn Gardner (Perryville, MD/Perryville) single and a Maddie Luedtke (Gibbstown, NJ/Gloucester County Institute of Technology) walk loaded the bases for Julia Harsche (Staten Island, NY/St. Joseph-by-the-Sea), who singled in another run. After a 1-2-3 double play erased two Broncs, Niegocki reached on an error, plating Luedtke with the Broncs' fourth run for a 4-0 lead.

RBI singles from Luedtke and Niegocki in the bottom of the fifth pushed Rider's to 6-0 and Anna-Marie Groskritz (Granby, CT/Granby Memorial) pitched around an error, a hit-by-pitch and an infield single that loaded the bases with one out, getting a foul pop and a fielder's choice to secure the complete-game shutout.

The story of the Nebraska Omaha game was Mavericks pitcher Sydney Nuismer, who spun a seven-inning no-hitter, limiting Rider to just a Tristen Wren (Rancho Cucamonga, CA/Etiwanda) walk in the first, a Reda-Fehsal hit-by-pitch in the seventh and 18 in a row retired in between. The Mavericks struck for a two-out, two-run single in the first, and an RBI single in the fifth and sixth innings to account for their four runs.

Notes
- Groskritz went the distance in a seven-inning, complete-game shutout against Kansas City. She allowed five hits, four walks and a hit-by-pitch without allowing a run to cross in 7.0 innings, striking out four.
- Fallyn Stoeckel (Nutley, NJ/Nutley) went the full 6.0 innings against UNO, allowing four earned runs on eight hits and a walk. She struck out six.

Broncs by the Numbers
- Niegocki, Reda-Fehsal and Merrill all contributed two hits against Kansas City.
- Reda-Fehsal scored twice against Kansas City and was hit by a pitch against Nebraska Omaha.
- Niegocki and Merrill each scored a run and drove in another.
- Luedtke singled, walked, scored a run and drove in one.
- Harsche singled, walked and drove in a run.
- Gardner and Asiah Bell (Tucson, AZ/Canyon Del Oro [Central Ariz. Coll.]) singled and walked vs. the Roos.
- Wren drew a walk in each game.

Up Next
The Broncs wrap up play at the Connie Claussen Classic Monday, when they face Northern Colorado (noon ET) and Nebraska Omaha (4:30 p.m. ET).