Mahwah, NJ: The #21 Ramapo College softball team split a pair of games against Kean University today in NJAC action. The Cougars outlasted the Roadrunners in ten innings with a 1-0 victory in game one while Ramapo bounced back in game two, 6-1.
 
Ramapo snapped the Cougars ten game win streak in game two as the Roadrunners improved to 27-7 overall and 14-4 in the conference. The Roadrunners wrap up the NJAC regular season in second place and earn the #2 seed in the upcoming NJAC Tournament while they earn a first-round bye. Ramapo will host the second round on Saturday, May 4th at 1:00 PM against the winner of #3 Kean and #6 Rutgers-Camden.
 
Game 1:
Game one saw a pitcher's duel as neither team scored until the 10th when Kean scratched a run across with a sac fly. Nikki Lusnia (13-8) helped herself out with a key sac fly to right field to plate pinch runner Jordyn Varone with the eventual game winning run, 1-0. Lusnia held the Roadrunners to just three hits in the game including three extra innings with a runner being placed on second base.
 
Marissa DiPaolo (11-2) went the distance in the circle for the Roadrunners. DiPaolo let up just four hits, struck out five and walked one. She and the Ramapo defense got out of key jams late in the game to give themselves a chance for the walk-off victory.
 
Game 2:
Ramapo jumped out to an early three run lead in the bottom of the first while they added two in the fourth and one in the fifth. With the bases loaded in the first, Avery Bartolomeo drove in Katie Rygiel with an RBI groundout to get Ramapo on the board, 1-0. Bella Otero drove in Alexis Corra with an RBI single before Avery Kontura laced a double into the right-center field gap to plate Wheeler for the 3-0 score. In the fourth, Kori Gargiulo advanced to third on a hard hit ball to left field off the bat of Rygiel while Gargiulo was able to race home when the ball was misplayed in the outfield, 4-0. Wheeler then launched a double to right-center to allow Rygiel to score, 5-0. The Roadrunners added an insurance run in the 5th as Hannah Hensler scored on an RBI groundout, 6-0. For the Cougars in the seventh, Lauren Paulik scored an unearned run on a Roadrunner throwing error.
 

Kassy Stefanski improved to 11-4 on the year as she scattered five hits in six complete innings of work. She struck out seven, walked none and let up just one unearned run. Brooke Knight got the final three outs in the seventh for the Roadrunners with three strikeouts. Rygiel and Otero each finished 2-3 at the plate. 
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