Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Mahwah, NJ:  The Ramapo College softball team earned a New Jersey Athletic Conference sweep today as they defeated the Gothic Knights of New Jersey City University, 10-0 (5) and 4-3 at the Athletic Center on the Mahwah campus.  With the sweep the Roadrunners improve to 17-15 overall and 7-9 in the NJAC.  NJCU falls to 13-22 overall and 2-14 in the conference.

Game 1:  It took just one inning for the Roadrunners to cross the game winning run, as they scattered ten runs, five in the 1st inning, across the five inning match-up.  Jaclyn Lima walked to lead off the inning and Caitlin Smith ripped a single to center field with one out to score Lima, before a two-run bomb from senior Lisa Orlando gave the Roadrunners a 3-0 lead.  With the bases loaded, Janet Brown drew a walk to bring in the fourth run for Ramapo. Amanda Kent drove in Kelsey Higgins, who singled to right field to reach first, with a sac fly to center field, to go ahead 5-0 after one inning.

The Roadrunners added three more runs in the 2nd inning, after Melissa Moreno singled to center field with one out, which scored Kim LaPenta who led off the inning with a single, and Taylor Boffalo drove a single to center, scoring Moreno and Orlando. 

With an 8-0 lead, Ramapo tacked on two more runs in the 3rd inning from Lima and Smith, before junior pitcher Harley Masiello closed out the 4th and 5th innings to earn the 10-0 win in five innings. 

Masiello improves to 8-8, striking out two and walking one, letting up four hits and no runs. 

Higgins hit a perfect 3-3 with one run and one RBI, while Smith went 2-3 with two runs and one RBI.  Boffalo hit 2-3 and drove in two runs, and Orlando posted one hit on one at bat, scoring two and driving in three, in the shut out conference win.

Ashley O'Beirne gets the loss to fall to 13-20 overall.  She struck out none and let up 11 hits in the loss.

Game 2:  New Jersey City jumped out to an early 2-0 lead, as Marissa Bariso singled to left field to score Casey Perez, who singled to the pitcher to lead off the game, and Gabrielle Rivera crossed the plate in the second.

The Roadrunners responded with two runs in the bottom of the 2nd inning. With two outs, Hannah Mucerino doubled to left field, and later came home as Kent drove a single to left field.  Kent tagged home plate with a RBI single from Lima.
 
In the 5th and 6th innings, Ramapo tacked on insurance runs from Smith, who homered in the 5th, and Lima, who reached base on a single and came home on a sac fly from Smith in the 6th.  It almost wasn't enough as Taylor Setar blasted a home run over the left field fence in the top of the 7th to close the gap to just one run.  With bases loaded, and two outs, junior pitcher Nicole Schneider struck out the final batter for NJCU, posting her eighth win of the season, (8-8).

Schneider struck out five and walked two, while letting up eight hits and three earned runs. 

Lima went 2-4 in the win with one run and one RBI, while Smith posted one hit on two at bats with one run and two RBI.  Mucerino went 1-3 with one run, and Kent scored one and drove in one, hitting 2-3 in the win. 

Perez hit 2-4 with one run and Rivera and Setar each scored a run for the Gothic Knights.  O'Beirne gets the loss falling to 13-21.  She struck out five and walked one, letting up 13 hits and four runs.

The Roadrunners return to action when they travel to Hunter College on Thursday, April 25th for a 3pm match-up.