Game 1 Highlights

GLASSBORO, NJ -- #16 Rowan and Stockton battled to a NJAC doubleheader split on Wednesday afternoon. The Profs took game one, 5-0, but saw the Ospreys win the second, 2-0.

Game one
Rowan scored all five runs in the first inning thanks to four hits, three walks and an error. After the Profs crossed two runs on a throwing error and later a passed ball, Korie Hague drove in two runs with her single just inside the left field line. Later in the frame, Grace Shukaitis knocked in Breanna Bryant on an RBI single to put the home team ahead.

Emily August allowed just six hits and a walk, but struck out seven and worked out of key spots in the contest.

After Rowan scored five in the first, Stockton looked to answer in its next at bat. The visitors used two singles and a walk to load the bases with one out, but August responded with a strikeout and a foul out. In the third, the Opreys again threatened, getting runners on the corners, but August moved things to the bottom half of the frame with back-to-back pop ups.

August was in control after the fourth, working 1-2-3 innings the rest of the way to earn the win.

Both Hague and Shukaitis were 1-for-3, as was McKenzie Melvin, who also scored and stole a base.

Game two
The Profs were limited to four hits but big defensive plays from both teams kept the second game in close quarters.

Stockton scored its first run in the third on a two-out RBI single from Charli Czaczkowski. The Profs tried to get it back in the bottom half. With Liz McCaffery at second and Melvin at third and one out, Rowan was thwarted with a pop up and hard grounder that Stockton pitcher Nicole Smith snagged for the third out, moving it to the fourth.

Melvin threw out a would-be run out at plate in the fifth. The Ospreys had a runner on second and with a follow up single to center, Melvin's throw to home was on the money to help keep it a one-run game.

Rowan would leave runners in scoring position stranded to end both the fifth and sixth innings. Czaczkowski struck again, this time in the seventh with her second RBI of the game and a two-run lead.

The Profs were able to get a runner to third, but with two outs, another grounder to Smith was the final out, giving Rowan its first home defeat of the season (9-1).

Morgan Zane had two of the team's four hits in game two. Rylee Lutz gave up one run on six hits through four-plus innings of work suffering her first loss (11-2) since March 17th. August entered for the final 2.2 innings.

The team gets back at it on Saturday when they travel to Kean for two NJAC games.