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CAMDEN, N.J. (April 5, 2018) – The College of New Jersey softball team held Rutgers University-Camden to one hit in each game as it swept a New Jersey Athletic Conference doubleheader on a cold, windy day here Thursday. The twinbill was a makeup from the originally-scheduled doubleheader Tuesday, which was rained out.
 
The Lions won the opener, 11-1 in six innings, behind the combined pitching of Alanna Namit and Eliza Sweet. Sam Platt went the distance as TCNJ captured the nightcap, 9-1 in five innings.
 
The Lions, who have won five straight games, improve to 16-4 overall and 4-0 in the NJAC. Rutgers-Camden falls to 9-8 overall and 2-2 in conference play.
 
The Scarlet Raptors play a 1 p.m. NJAC doubleheader at Ramapo College Saturday.  
After TCNJ scored two runs in the third inning and another five in the fourth, the only question centered around Namit, who tossed a no-hitter into the fifth inning. With one out in the fifth, sophomore shortstop Rachel Edwards (Washington Township, NJ/Washington Township) drew a walk and, one out later, senior catcher Mackenzie Mason (Penns Grove, NJ/Penns Grove) broke up the no-hitter with a single to center field. Walks to senior third baseman Gabby Pfeiffer (Mount Laurel, NJ/Rancocas Valley) and senior center fielder Gabrielle Castellini (Millville, NJ/Wildwood Catholic) forced home the Scarlet Raptors' lone run. Castellini, pictured above during Thursday's first game, had three walks in the contest and collected the lone Raptor RBI.
 
Namit (7-0) worked 4-2/3 innings, allowing the one hit and one earned run. She walked seven and struck out six. Sweet finished the game, notching one walk and one strikeout without allowing a hit in her 1-1/3 scoreless innings.
 
Raptor junior Kendra Pfister (Dacula, GA/Dacula) took the loss, working four innings and allowing six hits and seven runs, only two of them earned due to four Raptor errors. Pfister (4-6) walked three and didn't strike out a batter. Junior Dannie Dinsfriend (Marlton, NJ/Cherokee) pitched the final two innings, allowing five hits and four runs (only two earned), while walking one.
 
Third baseman Lauren Conroy paced the Lions' 11-hit attack, going 3-for-4 with one run and five RBIs. She hit a two-run single in the third inning and a bases-clearing double in the fourth. She finished the doubleheader going 5-for-8 with two runs and six RBIs.
   
Platt raised her record to 4-2 with a one-hitter in the nightcap, allowing only one earned run and four walks. She struck out one. She was backed by a 12-hit attack, including a solo home run in the second inning by designated hitter Kaitlin Kocinski and a two-run shot in the Lions' five-run fourth, coming off the bat of right fielder Helena Coppola.
 
The Raptors scored their lone run in the second following a leadoff walk by Castellini. She was sacrificed to second by freshman left fielder Maggie Foss (Washington Township, NJ/Washington Township), moved to third on a ground out by Mason and scored on a wild pitch.
 
Castellini broke up Platt's no-hit bid with a one-out single to center in the fourth inning.

Rutgers-Camden freshman Kennedy Whalen (Williamstown, NJ/Gateway Regional) took the loss to drop to 4-2. She worked all five innings, allowing 12 hits and nine earned runs. She walked four and struck out three.
 
Lions left fielder Gaby Bennett went 2-for-3 with one run and three RBIs to lead the TCNJ attack.