MADISON, N.J. – The Drew University softball team won 8-0 in six innings in the opener, then rallied for a 3-2 victory in the second game en route to a doubleheader sweep of Stevens Institute of Technology Tuesday afternoon at the Drew University Softball Complex.
 
With the wins, the Rangers (20-11) reached the 20-win mark for the second year in a row and the seventh time in program history. Drew has now posted back-to-back 20-win campaigns for the first time since doing it three years in a row from 2002-04.
 
In the opener, senior Molly O'Brien finished a double shy of the cycle, going 3-for-3 with a triple, a home run, and three RBIs, and senior Bailey Comeau (9-3) fired a four-hit, six-inning shutout while striking out seven.
 
Sophomore Teagan Bradley (5-5) threw a gem for Drew in the second game. She twirled a two-hit complete game, struck out seven, and retired the final 15 batters she faced. The only two runs she allowed were unearned.
                                                                                                                                                           
Offensively in the second game, sophomore Deja Robinson finished 3-for-3 and drove home the go-ahead run in the bottom of the sixth inning.
                                                                                                               
In the opener, the Rangers struck early, scoring three runs in the first. Senior Madi Precht led off with a double before scoring on a single from freshman Haley Meierhofer. O'Brien then launched a triple to right and scored when the relay throw sailed past the third baseman.
 
O'Brien tacked on a run in the third, blasting a solo homer over the right-centerfield fence. It was her seventh long ball of the season, which ties the school record set by Kerry Crowley C'08 in 2008.
 
The Rangers scored three more in the fifth before freshman Aurora Marino ended the game with a sacrifice fly in the sixth.
 
In the meantime, Comeau worked out of jams in the second and third, escaping with inning-ending strikeouts in both innings. But she retired 11 of her last 14 batters to pick up her third shutout of the season and the fifth of her career.
 
In the second game, the Ducks pushed across two runs after the first two batters of the inning reached. They both scored when the Rangers made two errors on the same play, but that's when Bradley dug in to get the last three outs, then fired four consecutive perfect innings.
 
The Rangers broke through against Stevens starter Erin Kries in the fourth, when Precht bunted her way on and was sacrificed to second by Meierhofer. Three batters later, Meirhofer blooped a single over the shortstop to score Precht all the way from second, making it 2-1.
 
Drew went ahead to stay in the sixth, when Precht reached an error before Meierhofer bunted her over again. O'Brien then reached on a bunt single before a sacrifice fly from freshman Josie Di Troia tied the game. Robinson followed up with her big hit – a sharply hit ball to right that scored O'Brien with what held up as the game-winning run.
 
The Rangers are back in action on Thursday, when they visit Rutgers-Newark at 3 p.m. in another non-conference doubleheader.