MADISON, N.J. (April 14, 2017) – Junior catcher Heather Ronchi recorded a walk-off hit, senior shortstop Meghan McGuire became the all-time leader in career assists, and the Drew University softball team split a doubleheader with Elizabethtown College on Friday afternoon.
 
By the Numbers: Each team won a game 5-4 on Friday, the Rangers in Game 1 and the Blue Jays in Game 2. Drew moves to 5-16 overall and 2-4 in the Landmark, while E-town heads home with a 5-23, 2-6 mark.
 
Top Performers
• Ronchi was 4-for-8 on the day against Jays pitching with an RBI in each game, none bigger than the one-out single to center field with the game tied 4-4. Her clutch base hit walked the Rangers off winners in the first game, 5-4.
• McGuire recorded five assists on Friday to give her 302 for her career. That mark gives her sole possession of first place all-time in the Drew record books, surpassing Kate McNamara C'15 at 299. McGuire also bat 1-for-5 with a run and an RBI in the split.
• Senior center fielder Phylicia Pellot hit the ball hard in just about every at-bat, but settled with a 3-for-7 day with two runs and two RBIs. Her two-run single in the bottom of the sixth inning tied the game at 4-4.
 
The Difference: Both teams delivered in pressure situations in the seventh inning of each game. In Game 1, Pellot led off with a single, advanced on a passed ball, and scored on Ronchi's walk-off hit. In Game 2, it was the Blue Jays who scored the go-ahead run in the late innings with a two-out RBI single to set the score at 5-4.
 
Game 1 Highlights
• Trailing 4-0, the Rangers cracked the scoreboard in the fourth on an RBI groundout by junior second baseman Madi Sheetz.
• Senior starting pitcher Emma Agostini settled down nicely after allowing four runs (three earned) over the first three frames. The offense backed her up by scoring three runs in the sixth to tie the game. McGuire tied the game at 4-4 with a two-out single through the left side to plate sophomore Cara O'Leary.
 
Game 2 Highlights
• The game went back and forth through the first five innings, with Drew erasing a one-run deficit two times. Ronchi knocked an RBI base hit in the third, and later in the fifth, benefitted from an E-town error to help score the tying run.
• Drew then committed two errors of its own in the sixth to help the Jays take a 4-2 lead.
• The comeback in the sixth was all with two outs, started by junior third baseman Lauren Mastropierro's infield single, a hit by pitch and a single by O'Leary on an 0-2 pitch. That set the stage for Pellot's game-tying two-run single.
 
Up Next: The Rangers turn around quickly and travel to Moravian College on Saturday, April 15 for a Landmark Conference doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m.