GALLOWAY, NJ -- #15 Rowan extended its win streak to 12 games after a NJAC Doubleheader Sweep at Stockton on Tuesday. The Profs took game one, 5-4, in eight innings, and then the second, 5-1, to stay unbeaten in conference play.
The doubleheader was played in memory of Stephanie Allocco, a member of the Rowan Athletics Hall of Fame, as part of the National Fastpitch Coaches Association's Strikeout Cancer initiative. In addition to playing for head coach
Kim Wilson at Rowan and earning All-American honors, 'Stuffy', was an assistant coach at Stockton as well as a teammate and very close friend of current Osprey head coach and Rowan alum Mav Hering.
Game one
Cat Thomas was 2-for-5 with a two-run home run and
Rylee Lutz fanned a career-high 14 as the Profs won the extra inning affair.
Thomas went deep in the first, for her seventh homer this season to give the Profs the early advantage.
Gabbie Fonollosa came through with a two-out pinch-hit RBI single as part of a two spot in the third for a 4-0 score.
Korie Hague earlier added a sac fly to center with the bases loaded.
Lutz allowed four runs (two earned) on four hits and three walks. She had multi-strikeout innings in all but two in the contest, breaking her old record of 12 K's set this season back in March in Florida.
The Ospreys got to Lutz in the bottom of the third, plating two runs to cut the lead in half.
Each team left the bases loaded in the fifth inning before Stockton got a two-run single from Regan Mendick in the sixth for a 4-4 game.
Now in the eighth with
Samantha Pawlowski pinch ghost running from second, she would score on a sacrifice bunt from
Grace Shukaitis as the throw to first was wild.
Lutz put the finishing touches on her 16th win of the season by striking out the side in the bottom half of the eighth to wrap it up.
Abigail Pawlowski added two hits with
Liz McCaffery walking three time and scoring twice.
Game two
Payton MacNair was 3-for-4 with two runs, two stolen bases, and an RBI while
Korie Hague added a two-run single in the third.
Starter
Emily McCutcheon yielded only one run on eight hits in six innings of work and did not allow a walk for the fifth-straight start.
McKenzie Melvin singled in MacNair and would later come around to score on a passed ball in the first for a 2-0 lead. After the Ospreys countered with a run in the bottom half, Hague's two-run single in the third plated MacNair and McCaffery to add to the score.
MacNair added a two-out RBI double in the sixth to account for the scoring.
Rowan returns home on Saturday to face off with Kean in a NJAC Doubleheader starting at 1 p.m.
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