ROCKLIN, Calif. – Junior first baseman Marissa Jensen launched her first varsity home run in the second inning but St. Francis managed only four other hits in falling, 13-3, to Rocklin in a rescheduled Sierra Foothill League softball game Saturday.

The Troubadours drop to 5-20 overall and 0-12 in league play heading into the final week of the regular season. The Thunder, ranked third in the Sac-Joaquin Section by MaxPreps, improves to 17-5 for the year and 8-4 in SFL contests.

Saturday's game was a makeup date from a March 14 rainout. This resulted in St. Francis playing the No. 1 (Del Oro), No. 2 (Oak Ridge) and No. 3 teams in the area, in that order, across a five-day span.

Senior center fielder Claire Krotine, freshman pitcher/DP Kaili Heeb, senior shortstop Kylee Garrett and junior pitcher Reese Lewis also had hits for the Troubies. Heeb reached in all three plate appearances, drawing a pair of walks to go with her opposite-field poke in the fifth.

Jensen's homer came with two outs in the second after Ariella Alcantar battled her way aboard on a 10-pitch walk. She became just the third SF player to hit the long ball in 2025, along with Kinsley Imm (twice) and Garrett (once). Krotine also hit for extra bases with a lead-off double in the third. St. Francis managed to load the bases in that inning thanks to Heeb's walk and Lewis' comebacker single. However, Rocklin third baseman Katie Wetteland forced an out at home for the second out, then sophomore righthander Payton Prior recorded one of her four strikeouts to end the rally.

The Troubies halved the deficit to 4-2 thanks to the Jensen bomb, but Rocklin responded with nine runs – all unearned due to three SF errors – in the bottom half of that same second inning. St. Francis got one back in the fifth, with Krotine reaching on an error and Heeb moving her around to third with her single. Garrett brought in Krotine with a bounder up the middle, then Emma Fox was hit by a pitch to load the bases and potentially take the run rule out of play. Then Thunder reliever Cat Alston fired three straight strikes to end the contest.

St. Francis returns home for games against Whitney (Monday) and Davis (Wednesday), the latter of which also serves as the annual Booster-Q day and features Senior Day festivities for Garrett, Krotine and Fox. Game time for each contest is 5 p.m. at Schuster Field.