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Box Score 2 Mahwah, NJ: The Ramapo College softball team swept a non-conference double header today from the Hawks of Hunter College, 5-2 & 6-5. The Roadrunners now stand at 17-15 overall while the Hawks fall to 9-20 on the season. Ramapo will return to action tomorrow afternoon on the road at New Jersey City University at 4pm.
In game one, the Roadrunners took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning.
Kim LaPenta scored on a wild pitch before
Melanie Walling plated
Mikayla Melendez with a sac fly to center field.
Hunter scored single runs in the second and third innings to tie the game, 2-2. Ramapo came back in the bottom of the third inning with three runs of their own.
Jaclyn Lima tripled down the left field line before LaPenta ripped a double to pick up the first RBI of the inning before
Danielle Saporito singled to left field to drive home LaPenta and Melendez, 5-2.
Kristen Wilson (1-1) earned her first career win in the circle. She fired a complete game five-hitter, striking out one.
LaPenta led the team at the plate, she finished 2-3 with two runs scored and one RBI.
In game two, Ramapo came back in the bottom of the seventh inning, scoring two runs for a, 6-5, walk-off win.
Hunter went up, 5-4, in the top of the seventh before
Grace Brennan ripped a one-out single to center field in the bottom of the seventh. Hernandez then put down a bunt that was misplayed by the Hawks allowing Brennan to advance to third with one out. Hernandez then stole second before
Melissa Moreno ripped a double to left field that fell at the base of the fence allowing Brennan and Hernandez to come around and score the game winning runs, 6-5.
Ramapo scored the first two runs of the game in the bottom of the first inning to take a, 2-0 lead. LaPenta and Melendez recorded back-to-back singles before Walling was hit by a pitch to load the bases with one out. LaPenta then crossed home plate on a wild pitch before Saporito drove home Melendez with a sac fly to center field.
Ramapo added two runs to their lead in the third inning. Hernandez drove home Walling with a single to center before Moreno ripped a single down the left field line allowing Saporito to score, 4-0.
Hunter got two back in the fourth inning and one in the fifth to come within one, 4-3. In the fourth, Meghan O'Shea singled to lead off the inning and later scored on wild pitch before Victoria Slavik singled and also came home on a wild pitch, 4-2. The Hawks added a run in the top of the fifth when Slavik drove home Taylor Crofts with a single to center field, 4-3.
Hunter scored two runs on five hits to take a 5-4 lead in the top of the seventh. Nicole Fillisetti laced a single to center field, scoring Julia Lipovac before Crofts drove singled deep in the hole at short stop, as Lombardo scored to make it, 5-4. Starting pitcher
Danielle Isenberg induced a fly out to center field with the bases loaded to end the Hunter threat. Ramapo would then come back in the bottom of the seventh for the, 6-5, win.
Isenberg (2-1) struck out two, walked four and surrendered 14 hits in the complete game win. LaPenta, Melendez, and Brennan all recorded two hits a piece while Moreno finished 3-4 with three RBI.