Glassboro, NJ... The College of New Jersey softball team won an exciting 10-7 game at 14^th-ranked Rowan University, but fell to the Profs 6-0 in the second game as they split their conference doubleheader on Tuesday.
 
The split put TCNJ at 11-5 in New Jersey Athletic Conference play and 22-12 overall, while the Profs moved to 10-6 in the conference and 30-7 overall. The split puts the Lions in a season-place tie with William Paterson in the league standings, as the Pioneers took both ends of a doubleheader against Kean University.
 
TCNJ wraps up the regular season on Saturday, April 28 hosting Ramapo College for a pair of games at Lions' Park. The opening game of the doubleheader starts at 1 p.m.
 
Game 1
TCNJ 10, Rowan 7 (9 innings)
The Lions won the opener in exciting fashion scoring three times in the top of the ninth and then closed the door on the Profs in the bottom of the inning for fifth straight victory.
 
After the teams each scored a run in the eighth inning, TCNJ scored three times in the top of the ninth to take a 10-7 lead. The first of those three runs came when Lindsey Williams (Roxbury, NJ/Roxbury) singled to center to plate Corinne Minicozzi (Hawthorne, NJ/Hawthorne), who started on second base via the international tiebreaker rule.
 
Williams then made it 9-7 when she touched home plate on a single by Michelle Casale (Middlesex, NJ/Middlesex) and the Lions then tacked on a final run when Kelly Hommen (Ridgewood, NJ/Ridgewood) dropped down a squeeze bunt scoring Crystal Lee (Rockaway, NJ/Morris Knolls).
 
That was all pitcher Lauren Fitzsimmons (Bridgewater, NJ/Bridgewater-Raritan) needed as she retired Rowan in order in the bottom of the inning and stranded the Prof runner who started the inning on second at third base. Fitzsimmons went all nine innings for the Lions to get her 15^th win of the season.
 
TCNJ took the early lead with a pair of runs in the second as junior scored Liz Huttner (Princeton Junction, NJ/West Windsor-Plainsboro South) one of her three runs of the game on an error, while Katelyn Congilose (Toms River, NJ/Monsignor Donovan) singled home Ashley Sogluizzo (Middletown, NJ/Middletown South) making it 2-0.
 
Rowan came right back with three runs in the bottom of the inning to take its first lead, but the Lions battled back to tie the game when Lee singled, moved into scoring position by stealing second, and scored on a single to right by Hommen.
 
The Profs added single runs in the fourth and fifth innings only to have TCNJ continue to fight back. The Lions made it 5-4 in the sixth as Huttner doubled and scored on a single by Sogluizzo, while Sogluizzo later scored on a base hit by Nicole Brodbeck (Atco, NJ/Hammonton) making it a 5-5 game.
 
Both teams scored in the seventh as Casale doubled home Williams, who got aboard on a Rowan error.
 
Rowan got the run back in the latter half of the inning and then the teams traded runs in the eighth setting up TCNJ's three-run ninth.
 
The win put the Lions at an impressive 6-1 in extra-inning games.
 
Casale had a big game at the plate going 3-for-5 with two RBI, while Sogluizzo and Lee each finished with two hits apiece.
 
Game 2
Rowan 6, TCNJ 0
The Profs earned the split in the second game as LeAnne Miller (Vineland, NJ/Vineland) tossed a shutout.
 
The hosts scored single runs in the first and third innings to grab the lead and then scored twice in both the fourth and sixth innings to complete the scoring.
 
The Lions finished the game with three base hits as Hommen, Minicozzi, and Williams each collected hits.
 
Sophomore Alex Carisone (Branchburg, NJ/Rutgers Prep) went suffered the loss for the Lions as she picked up her 10^th complete game of the season.