Game 1 / Game 2

Union, NJ – Stockton University (18-17-1, 7-8-1) clinched an NJAC tournament berth and moved into fifth place in the conference by trading wins in a doubleheader at Kean University (27-7, 10-6). The Ospreys were blanked 2-0 in the opener but took the nightcap 5-2 as freshman Alexandra Cosenzo (East Hanover/Hanover Park) broke the school record for home runs in a season.
 
Cosenzo and Alexa Massa (Moorestown/Moorestown) each singled once for the only two hits that Stockton could manage off Kean pitcher Shannon McMahon in the first game. The first 12 Ospreys were retired in order before Cosenzo led off the fifth inning with a single.
 
Stockton pitcher Hannah Bibeault (Hopatcong/Hopatcong) absorbed the loss despite a solid outing. Bibeault allowed two runs on eight hits, walked just one and fanned one. A two-run single by Caroline Ratti in the bottom of the second accounted for the only scoring in the 2-0 contest.
 
Cosenzo went 3-4 with two home runs and four RBI in the second game. The rookie first baseman moved to nine homers on the season, breaking the Stockton record of eight by Grace Long in 2012. Holly Arentowicz (Roxbury/Roxbury) stroked three hits and scored twice.
 
The Ospreys jumped to a quick 2-0 lead in the top of the first. Arentowicz singled with two outs and Cosenzo followed with her record-tying eighth homer.
 
Neither team put any more runs on the board until the fifth frame when Cosenzo followed another single by Arentowicz with her record-breaking longball to double the lead to 4-0. Ashley Lobell (Cedar Knolls/Whippany Park) then singled for her second hit of the game. Lobell scored two batters later on an RBI single by Danielle Lugo (Vineland/Vineland) that was her second hit and made it 5-0.
 
Kean broke the shutout with two runs on five hits in the sixth inning to make it 5-2. The Cougars got the tying run to the plate with two outs in the seventh frame but Victoria Torp (West Milford/West Milford) induced a game-ending groundout to third to close the 5-2 triumph.
 
Torp improved to 9-7 on the season with the complete game. She scattered 10 hits but held the Cougars to just the two late runs and struck out one batter.
 
Stockton will be on the road again on Saturday for an NJAC doubleheader at Rutgers-Newark at 1 p.m.