Mahwah, NJ: The #3 Farmingdale State College Rams (34-11) went 4-0 in the 2010 ECAC Metro Softball Championship and defeated #2 Richard Stockton College (28-12) in the final 2-0 to earn the crown. The #1 Ramapo College Roadrunners fell to Stockton earlier in the day, 6-4.

The Rams scored in the first inning to take a 1-0 lead. Maressa Mistretta walked to lead off the inning before she moved to second on a sacrifice. Nicole Farber reached on an infield error allowing Mistretta to move up to third base. Farber got caught in a run down trying to steal second base while Mistretta stole home as the throw from Stockton to home plate was too late.

The Ospreys and Rams traded zero's on the board for the next five innings before the Rams struck for one unearned run in the top of the 7th to take a 2-0 lead. Aubrey Walker singled to left field before Elizabeth Escobar bunted into a fielder's choice, the Osprey's attempted to get the lead runner at second as the ball went into center field allowing Walker to cross the plate with the game's second run.

Heather Buckshaw and the Rams would get the Ospreys to go down 1-2-3 in the bottom of the seventh to capture the 2010 ECAC Metro Softball Championship. Buckshaw was named Most Outstanding Player of the Championship. Buckshaw struck out four while scattering four hits over the complete game shutout.

For Stockton, Heather Corica pitched a complete game in the loss, she struck out four while only giving up three hits, both runs were unearned.

Game #5 - #1 Ramapo vs. #2 Stockton

The Ospreys jumped out to a 4-0 lead after two innings of play when they scored one run in the first and three in the second. In the stop of the first inning Stockton got on the board when as Joey Afflitto was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning and advanced to second on a infield ground out before Kelly Dodd ripped a single to right field to pick up the RBI.

In the second, Stockton tallied three runs on four hits to take a 4-0 lead. The Ospreys recorded a RBI single from Afflitto before Laura Dubell smacked a two-RBI single to right field.

The Roadrunners came back to tie the game in the bottom of the third inning. Rookie Janet Brown (Point Pleasant, NJ) walked and rookie Kelsey Higgins (Wall, NJ) ripped a double to left field before senior Katie Donnelly (North Haledon, NJ) slapped a single into right field plating Brown, 4-1. Rookie Amanda Kent (Sparta, NJ) then drove the first pitch of her at-bat over the left field wall for her fourth home run of the season to tie the game, 4-4.

Stockton took the lead back in the fifth inning and added an insurance run in the sixth for a 6-4 lead. Vicki DeGaetano ripped a RBI double to left center field in the fifth and Danielle Accardi doubled home Jessica Goncalves in the sixth inning. The Ospreys would hold Ramapo in their final two at-bats for the win as Stockton advanced to the 2010 ECAC Metro Softball Championship game against #3 Farmingdale State.

The Roadrunners end the 2010 season with a 29-17 overall record. Junior Lyndsay Buehler (River Vale, NJ) (15-5) took the loss in relief. She pitched 5.2 innings of work in striking out four and walking two. Junior Deanna Giordano (Clifton, NJ) started for Ramapo but had to come out of the game after 1.1 innings of work due to injury.

Donnelly was 1-4 with one RBI and one run scored while Kent was 1-4 with one run scored and three RBI.