GLASSBORO, NJ -- #2 Rowan suffered its first loss of the season as the Profs split a New Jersey Athletic Conference Doubleheader with TCNJ on a very windy Tuesday. Game one was a 6-0 decision for the home team before the Lions edged out the Profs, 5-2, in the second, ending the team's best start ever and its longest winning streak at 31 games (31-1, 9-1 NJAC). Rowan was the last team in all three divisions this season to not have a loss.

Game one
Pitcher Rylee Lutz threw her fourth shutout in a row as Rowan plated six runs all in the first inning en route to the win. Lutz also made program history, as the senior appeared in her 113th game for the Profs, breaking the previous record of 112 set by Barbara Sbarra (1987-90).

Payton MacNair and Breanna Bryant each added two hits while Aly Reim added a two-run single as part of the six-run first. Abigail Pawlowski walked three times, tying a career high. MacNair also scored a run, moving into second place in the program record books in career runs (177).

Lutz scattered five hits on just one walk and a pair of strikeouts to move to 13-0 this year.

Rowan had just three hits in that first frame, but took advantage of four walks off of TCNJ starter Maya Knasiak. After the first three batters reached safely, Pawlowski drew the first of three walks to help the Profs get ahead, 1-0. Bryant followed with a flare to right for another run and Reim followed with her two-run single to add to the lead.

Lutz had to work out of a jam in the second as the Lions would load the bases with no outs. The Profs escaped the spot getting a force out at home, with a pair of fly outs to move things along to the bottom half. The senior also got out of trouble in the sixth, getting a called third strike on 12 pitch at-bat with two outs and runners on second and third.

Sara Vincent had three of TCNJ's five hits.

Game two
The Lions' Julia Kinnally was a thorn in the Profs' side in game two, going 3-for-4 with a two-run home run in the fourth and later a two-run double in the seventh.

McKenzie Melvin had three hits, walked and also scored a run with Pawlowski and Kate Evick kicking in two hits apiece.

Starter Emily McCutcheon (13-1) yielded nine hits on two earned runs with two K's and no walks, suffering her first loss of the year. There were five errors in the game, three by the visitors and two from the Profs.

Melvin tripled in the third and was brought home on MacNair's single to left to put the first run on the board. Kinnally homered in the third and later in the inning another would cross off an error at third base with runners on to give TCNJ a 3-1 edge.

An error in the bottom half helped Rowan cross a run to cut the deficit in half. Pinch runner Mikayla Dansky scored from second on a throwing error on a ball hit to third base to make it 3-2.

With two outs in the top of the seventh and a runner on, McCutcheon's error off a grounder to the circle kept the inning alive for Kinnally, who later doubled in two runs for a three-run advantage.

The Profs gave it one last shot in the bottom half, getting runners on second and third with two outs, but TCNJ starter Elizabeth Gosse induced a groundout to first to give Rowan its first loss this year.

Next up for the squad is a rescheduled DH against Ramapo here at home on Thursday in a 2:30 p.m. start