HONOLULU – Senior
Teagan Bradley reached the career 200-strikeout mark and the Drew University softball team swept Sewanee on the second day of the team's spring break trip to Hawaii on Tuesday.
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The Rangers (5-1) won the opener 7-6 on a walk-off single from junior
Olivia Magliacano, then captured a 5-1 victory behind five shutout innings from Bradley.
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Magliacano finished 5-for-8 on the day for Drew, which has won its last three games, while sophomore
Sam Pellegri finished 4-for-8.
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In the opener, Drew jumped to a 4-0 lead in the first inning before the Tigers rallied to take the lead with five unanswered runs. The Rangers went back in front 6-5 after scoring single runs in the fifth and sixth innings before Sewanee tied it up with a run in the top of the seventh.
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In the bottom of the innings, junior
Josie Di Troia led off with a walk before pinch-runner
Ashlyn Cassetty eventually found her way to third on a wild pitch. Three batters later, Magliacano drilled a ball through the left side to score Cassetty with the game-winning run.
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It was the second straight walk-off victory for the Rangers, who also defeated Messiah 3-2 on Monday.
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Magliacano finished 3-for-4 with a triple and a pair of runs in the opener while Pellegri went 2-for-4.
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In the circle, senior
Tyler Saunders tossed the first 3 1/3 innings before freshman
Gabby Duran came on to throw the final 3 2/3 to earn the win in her collegiate pitching debut, striking out five while yielding just one run.
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Drew supplied Bradley with plenty of run support in the second game starting, scoring once in the first and three times in the second, capped by an RBI-triple from Magliacano, to go up 4-0.
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The Rangers carried a shutout into the seventh, when they tacked on an insurance run in the top of the frame on an RBI-double from Di Troia receiving a run-scoring putting her team up 5-1.
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Magliacano, juniorÂ
Aurora Marino, senior
MacKenzie Pisani, Di Troia, and Pellegri collected two hits apiece during the second game.
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Bradley (1-1) yielded just three hits and two walks while striking out three. Duran returned to the circle in the nightcap and allowed just one run over the last two frames. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
 Drew continues its trip on Thursday, when it plays Emory University in a doubleheader starting at 10 a.m. HST (4 p.m. EST).
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