CLERMONT, FL -- #4 Rowan ended its Spring Break Trip at The Spring Games a perfect 12-0 after posting two wins on Friday. The Profs rallied late to comeback and down Wisconsin-La Crosse, 4-3, in eight innings on a walk off hit and then capped the week's action with a 19-6 victory over Trinity.
Wisconsin-La Crosse (W, 4-3 F/8)
Payton MacNair's sac fly scored
Liz McCaffery in the bottom of the eighth to walk off the win after the Profs trailed 3-0.
The Eagles scored twice in the first inning on a two-run double from Maddy Bornbach and later crossed a run in the third to put Rowan in a three-run deficit.
The Profs had just one hit through the first five innings before responding with three runs in the bottom of the sixth.
Zara MacNair scored an fielding error on a potential rundown on a pickoff play at second which also allowed McCaffery to move up to second.
Payton MacNair then doubled in McCaffery to make it 3-2. Two batters later,
Breanna Bryant followed with an RBI single to plate MacNair to knot it up at 3-3.
Rowan turned a key double play to end the top of the eighth. Now with its chance in the bottom half and McCaffery placed on second, an infield bunt single from
McKenzie Melvin put runners on the corners before MacNair ended it with her RBI sac fly.
Emily McCutcheon, who came in relief, earned the win (9-0), throwing six scoreless innings with seven strikeouts and yielding just three hits.
Trinity (W, 19-6 F/5)
The Profs ended its stay in Central Florida with an offensive showing, turning in 19 runs on 20 hits. McCaffery,
Kate Evick, and
Aly Reim each went deep while MacNair was 4-for-4, a career high, with four runs scored and three RBI's. Reim finished with a career-best five RBI's while adding a double.
Rowan scored six runs in its first at-bat on six hits and two Bantam errors. Evick smacked her first career dinger, a two-run shot, as a part of the six spot. Bryant's two-run single in the third helped the Profs get ahead, 14-1.
Reim hit her first career homer, a three-run blast as part of a five-run fourth.
Madison Cooley scored the win, going two innings in relief (1-0). Lutz,
Makayla Veneziale, and
BethAnne Doderer each threw an inning in the win as well.
For the trip,
Payton MacNair batted .564 (22-for-39) with 15 RBI's, 12 runs, four doubles, and a triple in the 12 games.
The team (20-0) returns to Glassboro and resumes action on Wednesday when the Profs welcome Eastern for a doubleheader starting at 2:30 p.m.
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