Mahwah, NJ: Junior Marilee Farmer (Toms River, NJ) drove a two-run homerun over the center field fence leading the #2 seeded Roadrunners to a NJAC opening round victory over the #5 seeded Cougars of Kean University. Ramapo (33-8) advances to play the #4 seeded Lions of TCNJ on Friday, May 2nd at the Montclair State Softball Complex in Montclair, NJ at 4:00pm. Kean (28-13) will face #6 William Paterson at 11:00am.

Farmer's home run, which came in the 6th inning after five and a half innings of scoreless ball, plated pitch runner Kendall Patton (Hammonton, NJ). Patton ran for junior catcher Kelly Schriber (Montclair, NJ), who ripped a single to left field with one out in the inning.

Senior pitcher Katie Norton (Livingston, NJ) struck out only one in the complete game earning her 13th win of the year (13-3). Norton did not give up a walk and gave up only eight hits in the game.

Senior Kristen Hennings (Jackson, NJ) pitched the complete game for the Cougars. She records the loss to fall to 5-6 overall, striking out one and walking one. She let up eight hits and two runs in the loss.

Farmer went 1-3 with one run and two RBI while Katie Donnelly (North Haledon, NJ), Rachel Wong (Livingston, NJ), and Lauren Cascino (New Windsor, NJ) hit 1-2, 1-3, and 1-3 respectively. Schriber and Ashley O'Rourke (Pequannock, NJ) also hit 1-3 in the team's 33rd win of the year.

Kean's Katie Hicks (Medford Lakes, NJ) hit a perfect 3-3 while Johanna Hedler (South Plainfield, NJ) and Jesse Buchanan (Washington Twp., NJ) went 1-4. Junior Sara Steinman (Springfield, NJ) hit 2-3 in the loss.