Drew University Athletics

MADISON, N.J. – Junior Allie Porbansky recorded her 100th career strikeout, but the Drew University softball team lost a pair of games to Catholic University in its regular-season finale on Saturday at the Drew Softball Complex.
 
The Cardinals (29-11, 12-4 LC) won 2-0 in the opener and 6-3 in the second game.
 
The Rangers (23-17, 8-8 LC) finished in a three-way tie with Susquehanna and Wilkes for third in the Landmark Conference standings. However, Drew was awarded the No. 3 seed in the upcoming Landmark Conference Championships due to winning the conference's No. 1 tiebreaker of head-to-head results among tied teams. The Rangers finished 3-1 versus the River Hawks and Colonels during the regular season and will enter the postseason with their highest seeding since they were the No. 1 seed in the 2003 MAC Freedom Conference Championships.
 
The opener was a pitcher's duel between junior Kaitlynne Streets and Catholic's Aubrynn Arcement. Neither allowed a run through the first four innings before the Cardinals broke through with both of its runs in the fifth, getting a two-run single from Olivia Stinchcomb.

It proved to be enough offense for Arcement, who tossed a three-hit shutout. She did not walk a batter and struck out one. Streets went the distance for the Rangers, scattering seven hits. She also finished with zero walks and one strikeout.
 
In the second game, the Cardinals jumped to a 3-0 lead with a five-hit first inning. Catholic added a run in the second before the Rangers got on the scoreboard with two in the bottom half. Catholic's catcher threw the ball away at third on a stolen-base attempt to allow a run to score before junior Karly Severinsen made it 4-2 with a sacrifice fly.
 
Catholic scored another run in the third, but Drew answered again, pushing across one in the fourth. Severinsen doubled, stole third, and scored on another throwing error by the catcher to make it 5-3.
 
The Cardinals scored the game's final run when Arcement homered in the fifth.
 
Drew threatened in the bottom of the inning with a one-out double from freshman Sloan Walmsley, but starting pitcher Sophia Colangelo escaped the jam by getting the final two outs. The Rangers put the tying run on deck in the seventh after a two-out double from Magliacano, but reliever Morrigan Gardiner struck out her third batter of the inning to record a save.
 
Walmsley finished 3-for-4 in the second game while Magliacano went 2-for-4.

Colangelo pitched six innings and struck out eight while Porbansky went the distance in the circle for Drew, fanning two.
 
The same two teams will face off again in Landmark Conference Championships on Friday at 11 a.m. at tournament host Moravian University.