MADISON, N.J. – Drew University Softball Head Coach Erica Mehalick C'03 earned her 300th overall career win and the Rangers swept cross-town rival FDU-Florham in a non-conference doubleheader on Thursday. The Devils were 17-4 entering the day.
 
Mehalick reached her milestone with the team's 10-6 Game One victory, and the squad followed up with a 6-4, nine-inning victory in the second game.  She has now won 144 games at Drew after collecting 157 victories at Stevens Institute of Technology.
 
Junior Kaitlynne Streets finished the day 4-for-8 with three RBIs while freshman Izzy Wiemer went 3-for-7 with a double and four RBIs. In addition, senior Haley Meierhofer finished 3-for-7 with three runs.
 
In the circle, junior Allie Porbansky earned the victory in the opener, tossing four innings to pick up the win while sophomore Gabby Duran tossed the final three frames to earn the save. Sophomore Olivia Datilio tossed a nine-inning complete game in the nightcap.
 
In the first game, the Rangers jumped to a 7-0 lead through the first three and a half innings. In the third, Meierhofer and Wiemer put Drew on the scoreboard with back-to-back RBI-singles before junior Karly Severinsen drilled a bases-clearing double to make it 5-0.
 
Drew added two more in the fourth before the Devils got on the scoreboard with three in the bottom half to make it 7-3. The Rangers restored their seven-run lead with three in the sixth, which included an RBI-single from Wiemer and a two-run single from Streets.
 
The Devils rallied with three in the bottom of the seventh, but Duran escaped with her fourth save of the season. She yielded three hits and one walk.
 
Porbansky (5-2) allowed three runs on four hits and one walk while striking out two to pick up the win.
 
Streets went 2-for-4 with two RBIs for the Rangers while Wiemer went 2-for-3 with three RBIs. Mierhofer and senior Olivia Magliacano added two hits each.
 
In the second game, the Rangers tied it twice in the early going, making it 1-1 on an RBI-single from freshman Sloan Walmsley in the third and pulling even at 2-2 on a run-scoring single from Streets in the fourth.
 
In the meantime, Datilio (5-0) blanked the Devils from the fourth through the seventh, and the game went to extra innings tied at 2-all. Drew went in front 3-2 in the top of the eighth when freshman Lorelei Lorentzen scored on an infield single from Streets. FDU answered with a sacrifice fly in the bottom half of the inning.
 
Drew went in front to stay with a three-run ninth, getting an RBI-single from Wiemer and a two-run single from Lorentzen. The Devils rallied in the bottom half, scoring once on a single before Lorentzen ended the game when she threw out a runner attempting to score from second on a single.
 
Lorentzen finished 2-for-5 with a double, two runs, and two RBIs in the second game while Streets posted her second straight 2-for-4 showing at the plate.
 
Datilio (5-0) scattered nine hits in the second game and allowed just two earned runs. She did not record a walk or a strikeout.

Drew returns to action on Saturday, when it hosts Susquehanna University in a Landmark Conference doubleheader starting at 1 p.m.