GLASSBORO, N.J.– When Head Coach
Terri Adams put together her 2025 schedule Eastern's veteran coach knew that she needed to put in some early tests to prepare her team for the MAC Commonwealth season. While she knew that today's games at Rowan would two tough road games against a very good opponent, she did not know that the Profs would be one of three unbeaten teams remaining in Division III and ranked fourth in the most recent NFCA poll when her team took the field. The Eagles (15-5) battled throughout but were unable to break through against the Rowan pitching in a pair of tight losses.
Jania Long recorded her 100th career hit with a double in the second inning of the first game.
The Eagles lost 3-0 in the opener, but they had chances. In the bottom of the third, the Profs picked up a run on a couple singles and a wild pitch. They added to it with a two-out single through the middle.
Down 2-0, the Eagles pieced together a rally in top of the fourth.
Sydney Ostolaza hit a double to center and Long singled down the left field line to put runners on the corners with one out. After a strikeout,
Maeve Colligan came on to pinch hit. She looked at strike one and then just started spoiling good pitches. After working the count to 3-2, the junior slugger ripped a ball down the line that landed inches foul. On the 15th pitch of that at bat, Colligan flied out to deep center field to end the inning.
As good as that chance felt, the Eagles had a better chance in the top of the sixth.
Tori Hook, Long, and Ostolaza all reached without putting a ball in play for bases loaded with no outs. Hook and Long were each hit and Ostolaza worked a seven pitch walk. Kasay Noonan, pinch-hitting, worked a full count before lining a ball just to the shortstop's left. A quick toss to second got Ostolaza, and the turn barely beat Long to the bag for an inning-ending triple-play.
The Profs scored a run in bottom of the inning with a double to the corner in right and an infield hit. That double was the lone extra-base hit of the day for the Profs.
Long went to the circle for the second game and was very good. She allowed only four hits and a single earned run in a 2-0 loss. The Profs scored an unearned run in the second inning and added a run on a couple singles with a stolen base in the fifth. The Eagles left six runners in the game and had five hits to just four for the Profs, but Rowan ace Emily McCutcheon picked up her tenth win of the year. The junior left-hander went 21-2 last year and 43-4 for her career at Rowan. She came on in the seventh inning of the first game to earn her first save of the year.
Teh Eagles are at Albright for a league series this weekend and are next at home for a doubleheader against Muhlenberg on April 3.
