Ewing, NJ… Ramapo College took both ends of a doubleheader from The College of New Jersey softball team on Wednesday as the Roadrunners won the opener 6-2 and the nightcap 14-1 in five innings.
 
The loss knocked the Lions to 6-14 on the season and 0-4 in the New Jersey Athletic Conference. Ramapo squared its conference mark at 4-4 and they are 7-8 overall.
 
TCNJ plays their first road conference games this weekend heading to Kean University for a doubleheader with the Cougars. The opening game is slated for 1 p.m.
 
Head Coach Sally Miller remains one win shy of picking up her 500^th career win, which would make her the 38^th coach at the Division III level to hit that milestone.
 
Game 1
Ramapo College 6, The College of New Jersey 2
The Roadrunners plated a run in the top of the first as they took advantage of a two-out walk to Mikayla Melendez (Woodland Park, NJ/Passiac Valley). After getting on base, Melendez scored from first on a double to right one batter later by Melanie Walling (Freehold, NJ/Freehold).
 
Ramapo had a big inning in the second, increasing its lead to 6-0 with five runs. Danielle Saporito (Nutley, NJ/Nutley) capped the inning with a two-run single with two outs.
 
TCNJ began chipping away at the deficit in the fourth when freshman Jessica Kennick (Middlesex, NJ/Middlesex) laced a solo home run to left and then in the sixth drove in the team's second run. She drove in that run with a single plating sophomore Christine Desiderio (Babylon, NY/Babylon), who started the inning with a base hit.
 
Kennick finished the game going 2-for-4 for the Lions and drove in both runs, while Desiderio and senior Kristen Lake (Whitehouse Station, NJ/Hunterdon Central) also had two hits apiece.
 
Eight different Roadrunners finished the game with a hit, while Harley Masiello (West Milford, NJ/West Milford) pitched a complete game for her third victory of the season.
 
 
Game 2
Ramapo College 14, The College of New Jersey 1 (5 innings)
Ramapo struck first again the second game as well, scoring two runs in the top of the second. Melissa Moreno (Cranford, NJ/Cranford) drove in the first with a base hit and Jaclyn Lima (Linden, NJ/Linden) drove in the second with a single.
 
The Roadrunners exploded for six runs in the third with Nicole Hernandez (Pompton Plains, NJ/Pequannock), Moreno, and Lima each had RBI singles, while Kim LaPenta (Rockaway, NJ/Butler) had a three-run double pushing the difference to 8-0.
 
Ramapo added five runs in the fourth to make it 13-0 before the hosts broke through for a run in the bottom of the inning. That run came when Kennick singled and later scored on a sacrifice fly to left field by sophomore Deanna Utter (Bram, NJ/Lenape Valley).
 
The guests closed out the scoring in the fifth with an addition run.
 
Sophomore Jamie Purcell (Nutley, NJ/Mt. St. Dominic Academy) and freshman Colleen Phelan (Tinton Falls, NJ/Monmouth Regional) also had hits for the Lions.
 
Moreno paced Ramapo with three hits and three RBI, while LaPenta had two hits and drove in five.