No less than a trio of Warwick natives are testing their skills this spring for New England College, with Julia Maker suiting up for the Pilgrims’ softball team and the program’s lacrosse squads featuring Hunter Sutcliffe and Isabella Marzano.

Toll Gate product Maker is currently in the midst of her second season on the NEC roster, aiming to build upon a freshman campaign in which she played in 14 games and batted at a .241 clip for a nine that finished with an 18-22 overall mark.

However, the sophomore jinx has been all too real for the former Titan as she has seen her average plunge to undesirable depths, only managing to chalk up a pair of hits from her 23 at-bats as of a March 14 doubleheader versus Massachusetts Maritime.

Despite her struggles inside the batter’s box, Maker nonetheless picked up the first runs batted in of her collegiate career during the Pilgrims’ season-opening trip to Florida, driving home a pair in a 10-3 win over Regis on March 7.

In the sixth inning of the triumph over the Royals, she lofted a sacrifice fly that was deep enough to score Abigail Grimes and then followed up in the last frame with a base hit which enabled Bella Kieran to cross home with the game’s final run.

Shifting over to the lacrosse field, Pilgrim graduate Sutcliffe and Tilton School alumna Marzano have experienced diverging fortunes in the opening weeks of the season, with the men currently at 1-5 and the women maintaining a 3-2 record.

Sutcliffe has split goaltending duties with three other netminders for a men’s team that cracked the win column for the first time last Friday with a 13-5 upending of Regis, buoyed by a hat-trick from the stick of Henri Pfeifle.

While he was not between the pipes for the breakthrough victory, the ex-Patriot assumed starting duties for a pair of contests earlier this month against Maine Maritime and the University of New England, making 11 saves against the former.

Those stops were not enough to prevent a 17-9 NEC defeat at the hands of the Mariners, but they have formed the lion’s share of Sutcliffe’s season total of 19, placing him second on the club ledger behind regular starter Nate Finn.

Equally defensive-minded, Marzano has appeared in four games for the Pilgrim women’s squad, with the entirety of her contributions thus far coming on March 7 in the team’s season opener versus UMass-Dartmouth.

The clash ended 14-6 in favor of the Corsairs thanks in large part to a five-goal performance from Melanny Sanchez Alvarez, but Marzano caused three turnovers and picked up five ground balls, the latter pacing NEC in the losing effort.

After dropping the first two tilts of the season, the Pilgrims have picked up the pace as of late with three straight wins, extending their streak with a 17-7 defeat of Dean last Friday after earning earlier triumphs over Maine-Farmington and Gordon.

Marzano and the rest of the NEC unit will try to make it four-in-a-row on Tuesday evening as they welcome in-state opposition in the form of a Colby-Sawyer team that proved too much for Simmons in a 16-2 rout of the Sharks this past Friday.

Across the way, Sutcliffe and his teammates will be hoping to start a winning run of their own one day later on home turf against SUNY-Plattsburgh, who improved to 4-4 the previous Wednesday via an 11-7 decision over Johnson & Wales.