MADISON, N.J. – The Drew University softball team earned its first Landmark Conference victories of the season with a sweep of Lycoming College on a summer-like day at the Drew Softball Complex Saturday afternoon.
 
The Rangers (10-8, 2-2 LC) won the opener 3-2, then rode a six-run first inning to a 9-3 victory in the second game.
 
Junior Haley Meierhofer finished 3-for-7 with two doubles for Drew while senior Fran O'Kleasky also collected three hits. Senior Teagan Bradley tossed a complete game eight-hitter in the opener before sophomore Allie Porbansky pitched five innings to earn the win in the nightcap.
 
The Rangers went up 1-0 in the first inning of the first game, when junior Olivia Magliacano led off with an opposite-field triple before Meierhofer drove a double off the leftfield fence in the next at-bat.
 
Bradley blanked the Warriors (9-6, 1-3 LC) over the first three innings before the visitors scored twice on two hits and an error to go up 2-1 in the fourth. But Drew answered in the bottom of the fifth, when Bradley sparked a rally with a leadoff double to the right-center gap. Sophomore Daylin Evans drew a one-out walk before she and pinch runner Megan Williams came around to score when, with two outs, a pop-up down the rightfield line off the bat of Meierfofer was dropped.
 
Bradley (3-3) made the lead stand up and worked out of a jam in the seventh. Lycoming put runners on first and second with two outs, but Bradley induced a pop-up to short to end the game. She scattered eight hits and two walks while striking out four.
 
The Rangers erupted with six run on six hits in the first inning of the second game to assume a 6-0 lead. After a leadoff walk from Magliacano and singles from Meierhofer and O'Kleasky, senior MacKenzie Pisani drove in the game's first run with a single of her own. Freshman Natalie Mignone then broke it open, making her first collegiate hit one to remember with a towering, three-run double to center that made it a 4-0 game. Junior Aurora Marino capped the big inning with a two-run single.
 
Lycoming got on the scoreboard with a solo home run from Mallory Rodarmel in the second, but the Rangers struck for twss in the fourth to go up 8-1. The Warriors scored their final two runs in the fifth before Drew set the final score in the bottom half on a sacrifice fly from Evans.
 
Porbansky (3-2) scattered nine hits, struck out one and did not walk a batter. Freshman Gabby Duran came on to pitch the final two innings for Drew and retired all six batters she faced.
 
Meierhofer finished 2-for-4 with two runs scored in the second game while O'Kleasky, junior Zoey Shimp, and Marino all collected two hits each.
 
The Rangers continue Landmark Conference play on Wednesday, when they visit No. 23 Moravian University in a doubleheader starting at 3 p.m.