MADISON, N.J. – Junior Olivia Magliacano went 5-for-6 with three home runs while senior MacKenzie Pisani collected her 100th career hit as the Drew University softball team came away with a split versus Juniata College on Saturday at a sweltering Drew Softball Complex.
 
The Rangers captured the opener 7-1, then rallied to force extra innings on a seventh-inning home run from senior Fran O'Kleasky in the second game. However, the Eagles pushed across a run in the eighth for a 6-5 win.
 
Magliacano smacked two homers in the second game, placing her in a five-way for second in team history for most long balls in one game.
 
Pisani reached her milestone with a sharp single through the left side in her final at-bat of the opener. She achieved the feat in less than three years after arriving at The Forest as a transfer for the 2023 season.
 
In the opener, freshman Gabby Duran tossed a six-hit complete game for the Rangers (17-17, 5-7 LC). She was backed by a 15-hit attack in which Magliacano finished 3-for-4 with a triple and her first home run of the day. Senior Haley Meierhofer went 4-for-4 with a double while Pisani, O'Kleasky, and senior Delaney O'Donoghue drilled two hits apiece.
 
The Rangers put a single run on the scoreboard in each of the first four innings, capped by a Magliacano homer in the fourth. Drew then broke it open with a three-run sixth before Juniata scored once in the seventh.
 
Duran (4-3) walked just two and struck out six while earning her second straight win in Landmark Conference play.
 
In the second game, Juniata (11-23, 3-9 LC) took a 3-0 lead in the top of the first before Magliacano went deep leading off in the bottom of the inning.
 
Neither side scored again until the Eagles slugged a pair of solo homers in the fifth to make it 5-1. But the Rangers rallied in the seventh, starting with a leadoff homer from Magliacano. After Meierhofer singled and junior Zoey Shimp was hit by a pitch, O'Kleasky stepped to the plate with one out and clouted a majestic drive over the left-centerfield fence for her first home run of the season.
 
Drew had the winning run on second after junior Ashlyn Cassetty walked and senior Teagan Bradley singled, but Eagle reliever Rylea Lynch escaped with a pop-out.

Juniata's Morgan Brumbaugh led off the eighth with a double and scored on a single from Kay Magill.
 
The Rangers had the tying run at third in the bottom half, when Magliacano drew a leadoff walk, was bunted over by Meierhofer and advanced to third on a flyout. But Lynch ended the game with a strikeout.
 
Magliacano finished 2-for-2 with three walks in the second game while O'Kleasky and Bradley each had a pair of hits.
 
Sophomore Allie Porbansky started in the circle for Drew and tossed 4 1/3 innings, allowing five runs (two earned) on seven hits and no walks. Bradley (5-8) pitched the final 3 2/3 innings, yielding just one run on five hits and no free passes.
 
The Rangers return home on Wednesday, when they host Centenary University in a non-conference doubleheader starting at 3 p.m.