Mahwah, NJ:  The Ramapo College softball team split a NJAC twin bill against rival #13 ranked Kean University today at the Athletic Center.  The Cougars took game one 4-3 while Ramapo needed eight innings to take game two 8-6. Ramapo improves to 9-5 overall, 1-1 in the NJAC while the Cougars now stand at 16-2 overall, 1-1 in the NJAC.
 
Ramapo took a 1-0 lead in the third inning of game one when Nicole Mahoney singled home Ally Spellman. Spellman reached on an error earlier in the inning. Kean would come back with two runs in the top of the fourth inning when Samantha Krakower drove home two runs with a double to the left-center field gap for a 2-1 lead.
 
Harper Patsko hit a solo home run on the first pitch she saw in the bottom half of the fourth inning to tie the game at two. In the fifth, Ramapo went up 3-2 when Patsko drove home pinch runner Kristen Ruggiero with a hard hit single to center field. Kean would come back to tie the game in the top of the sixth 3-3. Emily Bissonnette drove home Dana Knapp with a single through the left side of the infield. Knapp led off the inning with a single down the left field line. In the seventh, Emily Sabo drove home the eventual game-winning run with a double to right field allowing Olivia Zengel to score for a 4-3 lead. Zengel was hit by a pitch earlier in the inning before moving to second on a sac bunt from Caroline Ratti.
 
Shannon McMahon improved to 9-0 overall on the mound for Kean as she struck out two, walked none and surrendered eight hits in the complete game win.
 
Katrina Buczkowski earned a no decision for Ramapo, she pitched the first five innings with five strikeouts, no walks and scattered six hits. Erin Fitzsimmons (2-2) took the loss working the final two innings. She struck out one, walked none and surrendered one run and two hits.
 
Patsko and Brennan each went 2-3 at the plate while Patsko drove home two RBI and scored one run.
 
Game two needed extra innings to decided a winner as the Roadrunners came out on top 8-6 thanks to a three-run home run in the bottom of the eight by Mahoney for the walk-off win.
 
Ramapo took a quick 1-0 lead in the third inning when Grace Brennan took the first pitch she saw and smacked her first home run of the season over the right field fence.
 
Kean came back with five runs in the sixth inning. The bases were loaded with one out when Knapp singled to left field allowing Ratti to score to tie the game 1-1. Jacqueline Riley then drilled a two RBI double to deep center field as Sabo and Cayleen Rizo to score for a 3-1 lead. On the same play as the throw was coming back into the infield, Knapp raced home trying to catch the Ramapo defense sleeping. She was safe at the plate as the throw sailed wide while Riley also came scored on the same play as the Cougars took a 5-1 lead.
 
Ramapo came back to score four runs in the sixth tying the game at five. Sisi Machinski and Jackie Howarth walked to put two runners on before Patsko ripped a double to center field with one out plating Machinski. Mahoney then ripped her first three-run home run of the game to tie the game 5-5. Neither team could push a run across in the seventh as the game went into extra innings. In the top of the eighth, Ratti was placed on second base for the international tiebreaker and moved to second on a sac bunt from Sabo. Ratti later scored on an infield fielder's choice off the bat of Knapp to take a 6-5 lead.
 
In the bottom of the eighth, Howarth was placed on second base for Ramapo. Spellman battled during her at bat and singled to left field to put runner's on the corners with no outs. Mahoney then came up big for the Roadrunners once again with her second three-run shot to left field propelling the Ramapo to an 8-6 walk-off win.
 
Fitzsimmons (3-2) earned the win in relief; she gave up no hits and only one run. Christina Brizek earned a no decision in the game with three strikeouts, no walks over the first six innings. She scattered six hits and surrendered five runs, two earned.
 
Mahoney finished the game 2-4 with two runs scored and six RBI while Brennan and Patsko each tallied one hit and one RBI.