Little Falls, NJ (5/11/07) – Junior righthander Carolyn McCrea (Wharton, NJ/Jefferson) spun a three-hit shutout as second-seeded Montclair State pushed across two runs in the fourth inning and eliminated No. 4 seed Ramapo College from the 2007 NCAA Division III Softball Montclair, NJ Regional at the MSU Softball Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

Freshman leftfielder Kelly Nance (Marlboro, NJ/Marlboro) and senior catcher Megan Tantum (Ewing, NJ/Ewing) each drove in a run as the Red Hawks moved into the championship round of the tournament and will face top seed Moravian College at Noon on Sunday, May 13. MSU, which matched the school record with its 38th victory of the year, needs to defeat the Greyhounds twice to take the regional championship.

Lauren Cascino (New Windsor, NY/Cornwall Central), Beth Choma (East Brusnwick, NJ/East Brunswick) and Gemma Chalkley (West Milford, NJ/West Milford) each went 1-for-3 for the Roadrunners, who ended their season at 33-10, the fourth time in the last five years that Ramapo won 30 or more games in a season. The Roadrunners were also making second straight appearance in the NCAA Championhship and fourth in the last five years. Ramapo won the Atlantic Regional in 2006 defeating Moravian 6-5, earning them their first appearance in the College World Series.

Montclair began the day with a 9-2 loss to Moravian on Saturday before bouncing back to defeat their conference rival as MSU gained a measure of revenge against the Roadrunners as Ramapo ousted the Red Hawks from the New Jersey Athletic Conference Tournament last weekend.

McCrea picked up her 30th victory of the season as she tied Dina DeAquino's 1988 single-season mark. The righty, now 30-6 on the year, tossed her 12th shutout of the season, the most by an MSU hurler since 1988, as she struck out four and walked none. Junior righthander Katie Norton (Livingston, NJ/Mt. St. Dominic) took the loss despite another outstanding effort. Norton (18-6), who won three elimination games to get Ramapo into Game 11, gave up just three hits, fanned five and issued two walks.

Montclair State got the only scoring it would need in the fourth with a two-out rally. Jennifer Jimenez (Linden, NJ/Linden) singled up the middle and Nance followed with a double to the left field wall to drive in the game's first run. Tantum then looped a single to left field to bring home Nance as Montclair led 2-0.

Ramapo mounted a pair of threats in the fifth and sixth innings putting two runners on in each frame. In the fifth, two Montclair errors put runners at first and second, but McCrea got out of the inning with a fly ball. The next inning, Cascino and Choma had back-to-back singled with one out however McCrea induced two more flyouts to keep the Red Hawks in front.