UNION, NJ -- #16 Rowan won game one of a NJAC Doubleheader at Kean, 7-5, but fell to the host Cougars, 3-2, in game two Saturday afternoon.

The Profs got a go-ahead three-run home run from Morgan Zane in the seventh inning the first game to erase a one-run deficit in their final at bat.

Game one
Back-to-back singles from McKenzie Melvin and Payton MacNair set the stage for Zane, as the senior connected on her seventh homer of the season.

Melvin went 4-for-4 with three runs scored, while Liz McCaffery was 3-for-3 with two RBI's. Zane and MacNair added two hits and two runs apiece. Zane also walked twice.

Emily August navigated through six innings, yielding four earned runs on six hits with three walks and two strikeouts to go to 13-4 on the year. Rylee Lutz came on in the bottom of the seventh to lock down her second save.

The Profs plated three runs in the first inning on three hits, an error and a walk. Melvin scored on a single from MacNair to make it 1-0. McCaffery worked through a nine-pitch at bat with the bases loaded, drawing a walk for a 2-0 lead. Later in the frame, Zane scored on a groundout.

In the third, Kean loaded the bags on their first three at bats. A sac fly from Eliza Filus put the home team on the board. A two-out error later allowed another run to cross to cut down the lead to one run.

McCaffery beat out an infield hit in the fifth to plate Melvin to up the score to 4-2. Filus hit a two-run home run in the sixth followed by a solo shot from Gabriella Fredette to get Kean back on top.

Game two
Melvin's two-run single in the fifth was one of Rowan's two hits in game two, but the Profs used five walks, two hit by pitch, and a Kean error to stay within striking distance.

The Cougars took advantage of two Prof errors in the second to plate a pair of runs. Kean was successful suicide squeeze in the third to tack on another run.

Melvin stepped to the plate in the fifth with the sacks full with no outs and delivered a two RBI single to right, however the team could not cross the tying run after a pop up and strikeout ended the frame.

In the seventh, the Profs gave it one last try, getting a lead-off single from Grace Shukaitis. After a sacrifice to move her to second, she would later take third on a wild pitch but was stranded as a fly out to right cemented the final score.

Lutz allowed three runs (one earned) on three hits with four K's and four walks, but saw her record slip to 11-3.

Rowan heads to Ramapo on Tuesday for two games to start the final week of the regular season.