Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Mahwah, NJ: The Ramapo College softball team split their double header today against Brooklyn College. The Roadrunners won game one, 9-3, and fell in game two, 5-3.

Ramapo stands at 8-9 overall while the Bulldogs even their overall record to 8-8. Ramapo returns to action this Saturday, when they host NJAC rival William Paterson University beginning at 1pm.

Brooklyn got on the board in the top of the first inning with two runs. Samantha Rodriquez and Stephanie Caravello each recorded RBI singles for the Bulldogs.

Ramapo came back to score six runs on five hits in the third inning to take a 6-2 lead. Nicole Hernandez beat out a bunt single before Taylor May put down a bunt that allowed Hernandez to advance to third base. During Jaclyn Lima's at-bat, May stole second as Hernandez raced home for the team's first run of the game. Lima then laced a single to center field, driving home May, before Kim LaPenta put down a squeeze bunt as the Bulldogs tried to get Lima at the plate but she slide under the tag and was called safe. With two runners on and two outs, Danielle Saporito drilled a three-run home run over the left field fence to take a 6-2 lead.

In the fifth inning, LaPenta led off the inning with a double before Mikayla Melendez hit a double to left field, allowing LaPenta to score, 7-2. Harley Masiello and Melissa Moreno then recorded RBI singles, increasing the Ramapo lead, 9-2.

Brooklyn got one back in the top of the seventh inning. With two outs, Nicole Tufano laced a single to left field, scoring Stephanie Caravello, 9-3. Ramapo starting pitcher, Danielle Isenberg induced a ground out to end the game.

Isenberg (1-1) went the distance on the mound for Ramapo. She surrendered 11 hits while striking out one.  Melendez was perfect at the plate, going 4-4 with two runs scored and one rbi while Saporito led the team with three RBI going 1-3 with one run scored. Hernandez was 2-3 with one run scored and LaPenta was 2-4 with two runs scored.

In game two, Brooklyn got all the runs they would need in the second inning taking a 5-0 lead. The Roadrunners would score single runs in the second, fourth and sixth innings to cut the lead in half, 6-3.

The Bulldogs got out of two late inning jams, holding the Roadrunners to only one run in the sixth and seventh innings. Ramapo left the bases loaded in the sixth inning and put the game winning run at the plate in the seventh, but could not score more then one run. Ramapo pounded out 13 hits in the game while they left 14 runners on base.

Ramapo starting pitcher, Kristen Wilson, worked the first two innings. She scattered five hits while giving up five runs in her first appearance of her career. Nicole Schneider came in for relief in the top of the third inning and only surrendered one hit in the final five innings of work. She struck out one and walked one.

Marie Oneto worked the first five innings for Brooklyn, holding the Roadrunners to three runs scored while giving up 12 hits. Amanda Bisz then came in for relief in the sixth inning, earning her first save of the season, as she only surrendered one hit.

Lima, Melanie Walling, and Hernandez all had two hits a piece for the Roadrunners while May led the team with three hits in game two.