Union, NJ: The Ramapo College softball team opened the season with two wins over John Jay College. The Roadrunners (2-0 overall) won game one 6-1 and game two 15-0 in five inning run-rule game. The Bloodhounds now stand at 4-6 overall.
Game 1: The Bloodhounds took an early lead in the first inning scoring one run on a Ramapo throwing error. Ramapo would come back with three runs in the third inning to take a 3-1 lead.
Kori Gargiulo tied the game one with an RBI single through the left side of the infield to plate
Aimee Notaro before
Avery Kontura drove home Gargiulo and
Lia Milsom with a two-RBI double to left field, 3-1. In the fifth, Milsom scored an unearned run to push the score 4-1 before the Roadrunners added two in the top of the seventh.
Emily Ehrmann led off the inning with a single before being lifted for pinch runner Emily Pietrzkowski. Pietrzkowski moved to second on a wild pitch and moved to third on an infield ground out. Clay'le Correa Vanness picked up an RBI with a groundout as Pietrzykowski scored, 5-1. Gargiulo and Kontura worked back-to-back walks before
Hannah Hensler ripped a double to the right-center field gap to plate Gargiulo, 6-1.
Gabby Morgan (1-0) earned the win in the circle for the Roadrunners as she struck out two, walked two and scattered two hits over six innings of work.
Brooke Knight pitched the seventh and struck out one facing just three batters. Kontura, Hensler and Milsom each posted two hits each in the game to lead the Roadrunners at the plate. Milsom scored two runs while Kontura drove in two RBI.
Game 2: The Roadrunners tallied 17 hits in game two and held the Bloodhounds to just two hits to earn their first shutout of the season. Ramapo held a 5-0 lead after three innings of play as they were led by a three-run home run from
Paley Sullivan, which would turn out to be her first of two homeruns on the day. In the first inning, Hensler plated Gargiulo with a single to right field for the early 1-0 lead. In the third, Konutra blasted a triple to right field with two outs before later scoring on a John Jay error, 2-0. The bases were loaded for Sullivan as she took the second pitch she saw over the right-center field fence to extend the score, 5-0. Gargiulo picked up two RBI on a double as Correa-Vanness and Milson both scored, 8-0.
Elianna Meola then ripped a single to center field to earn the RBI as Kontura scored, 9-0. In the fifth, Hensler singled home Correa-Vanness for the team's 10th run of the game.
Niah Murphy and
Madison Groschel-Klein each hit back-to-back singles earlier in the inning before they came around to score on
Aimee Notaro's double, 12-0. Sullivan stepped up to the plate and belted her second three-run home run of the game, this time over the left-center field fence to extend the lead, 15-0.
Knight once again came into the circle in the bottom of the fifth to get the final three outs of the game. Knight induced a foul out to Hensler behind the plate and back-to-back strikeouts to end the game.
Mikayla McJilton (1-0) earned the win in the circle for the Roadrunners as she scattered just two hits in four innings of work with one strikeout and one walk. Correa-Vanness, Gargiulo, Kontura, Hensler, Notaro and Sullivan all collected two hits each while Sullivan led the way with six RBI.
The Roadrunners return to action as they open play at THE Spring Games in Clermont, FL on March 14th. Ramapo will take on Clarkson University at 10am and Hiram College at 2:30pm.
