Mahwah, NJ… The College of New Jersey softball team opened New Jersey Athletic Conference play at 12th-ranked Ramapo College on Saturday and were swept by the Roadrunners.

Ramapo (13-3, 2-0 NJAC) used a four-run fifth inning to break open a tie game to take the first game and win 5-1, and then led early in the second game before holding off the Lions (10-6, 0-2 NJAC) to win 7-4.

Game 1: Ramapo 5, TCNJ 1 (Box Score)
TCNJ’s lone run of the game came in the top of the third as Ellen Seavers (Ridgewood, NJ/Ridgewood) got on with a two-out single and then scored two batters later on a base hit to center field by Katie Davenport (River Edge, NJ/River Dell Regional).

The Roadrunner tied the game with a run in the last of the fourth before scoring four times in the bottom of the fifth despite getting only a pair of hits.

Senior pitcher Julianne Lajiness (Monroe Twp., NJ/Notre Dame) suffered her first loss of the season as she allowed five runs, three earned, in six innings. She is now 6-1 on the season.

Game 2: Ramapo 7, TCNJ 4 (Box Score)
Ramapo scored five times in the first and then added another run in the second to take a 6-0 advantage.

The Lions closed to within 6-4 scoring two runs in the second and then two more in the fourth. In the second, freshman Rachel Greeby (Yardley, PA/Pennsbury) hit a two-run homer scoring Jen Hughes (Huntington Station, NY/Walt Whitman) ahead of her. It was Greeby’s first collegiate home run.

In the fourth, Hughes scored on a passed ball cutting the margin to 6-3 before Greeby scored on an error.

TCNJ freshman Ashley Minervini (Cliffside, NJ/Cliffside) suffered the loss, while Heather Hoffman (Annandale, NJ/Immaculata) was solid in relief allowing two runs in more than six innings of work.

The Lions remain on the road for another NJAC doubleheader on Tuesday, April 3 heading to Richard Stockton College for a 3 p.m. start.