CLERMONT, FL --
Rylee Lutz helped guide #18 Rowan notch two big wins in Florida on Tuesday, as the Profs took down Mount St. Joseph, 1-0, in eight innings, and later rallied past Franklin & Marshall, 7-3.
Lutz scored wins in both games as the team improves to 11-1 on the season and winners of 11 in a row.
Against Mount St. Joseph, Rowan scored the game-winning run in the bottom of the eighth as
Breanna Bryant scored on a wild pitch for a 1-0 victory. Lutz went all eight innings, a career high, fanning seven batters with three walks and just two hits. She kept the Lions scoreless in a big spot in the fifth, twisting her way out of a bases loaded jam with a grounder to first.
Devyn DiPasquale had two of the team's four hits.
McKenzie Melvin walked and stole a base.
After Bryant was placed on second to begin the eighth, DiPasquale moved her over to third on a sacrifice bunt.
Kaitlyn Riggs then stepped in to pinch hit, but the second pitch she saw went through the legs catcher Elizabeth Ivers to allow Bryant to end it.
In the day's second game, Lutz came on in relief at Rowan rallied from a 3-0 deficit with five runs in the fifth, with four of them coming with two outs. The big play in the inning saw
Abigail Pawlowski's score on her own RBI single as an errant throw allowed
Korie Hague to score after
Cat Thomas plated a run.
Bryant had three hits while
Payton MacNair went 2-for-3 with an RBI.
Lutz entered in the fourth after the Diplomats crossed two runs in the frame for a 3-0 lead. She worked out of another bases loaded spot thanks to a big defensive spot that had
Grace Shukaitis throwing out a runner at home off a fly ball to right for the double play. Shukaitis would lead off the sixth with a double and come around to score on a RBI single from MacNair as part of two more runs in the inning.
For the game, Lutz struck out six in 3.2 innings of work to move to 4-1 on the season.
The squad is back at it on Thursday starting with a matchup with Carthage at 9 a.m. followed by an 11:30 a.m. game against Mount Saint Mary.
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