MADISON, N.J. – The Drew University softball team earned a split with Landmark Conference foe Elizabethtown College on Senior Day on Sunday at the Drew Softball Complex.
 
The Rangers (19-19, 6-8 LC) won the opener 8-0 in five innings before the Blue Jays (10-24, 4-8 LC) rallied for a 5-4, eight-inning victory in the second game.
 
In between games, Drew's six seniors – Teagan Bradley, Ashlyn Cassetty, Delaney O'Donoghue, Fran O'Kleasky, MacKenzie Pisani, and Tyler Saunders – were recognized in a ceremony on the field.
 
Bradley (7-8) fired a four-hit shutout in the opener, walking only one and striking out three. She was backed by a five-run, six-hit first inning, and she also helped herself at the plate, finishing 2-for-3 with three RBIs. Junior Olivia Magliacano added a 3-for-3 showing while O'Donoghue went  2-for-3.
 
The Rangers wasted no time surging to the lead in the second game, as Magliacano led off the bottom of the first with a mammoth home run over the leftfield fence. It was her sixth long ball of the season and her 53rd hit of the year, which tied the school record set by Madi Precht C'23 in 2022.
 
Drew tacked on three more runs in the third to assume a 4-0 lead, but Blue Jay reliever Jess Dunn came on to fire 5 1/3 scoreless innings. In the meantime, Elizabethtown scored two runs in the fourth and single runs in the sixth and seventh to force extra innings before Kristen Aydelotte hit a solo homer in the eighth.
 
The Rangers threatened in the bottom of the eighth, loading the bases on a walk from junior Zoey Shimp, a bunt single from sophomore Destiny Medina, and a two-out walk from sophomore Karly Severinsen. Cassetty then delivered a fly ball into the right-center gap that nearly fell in for what would have likely been a walk-off hit but was run down by rightfielder Lexi O'Brien.
 
O'Donoghue went 2-for-3 again in the second game while junior Hailey Meierhofer finished 2-for-4 with a pair of doubles.
 
In the circle, freshman Gabby Duran started and yielded just two runs (one earned) and struck out two in four innings before Saunders tossed two innings, allowing two runs while fanning two. Sophomore Allie Porbansky (4-4) pitched the final two frames for the Rangers.  
 
Drew closes out the regular season on Saturday, when it visits Susquehanna University at 1 p.m. in another Landmark Conference affair.