Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 CAMDEN, N.J. – Sophomore pitcher Brittany Scott (Buena, NJ/Buena Regional) hurled a no-hitter with 16 strikeouts in her Rutgers University-Camden debut and added a three-run home run as the designated player in the nightcap to lead the Scarlet Raptors to an opening-day sweep over John Jay College of Criminal Justice in a non-conference softball doubleheader here Tuesday.

Rutgers-Camden won the opening game, 6-0, and took the nightcap, 8-0 in five innings, behind the combined one-hit pitching of freshmen Allyson Potts (Bordentown, NJ/Bordentown Regional) and Sydney Allen (Magnolia, NJ/Sterling).

The Scarlet Raptors (2-0) entertain Centenary College Thursday in a 3 p.m. doubleheader.

The Bloodhounds (0-2) host St. Joseph's College-Brooklyn Friday in a 3 p.m. twinbill.
  In the opening game, Scott hurled the 21st no-hitter in program history. She missed a perfect game by only a leadoff walk in the fifth inning to John Jay junior first baseman Jessica Zaccari (Narrowsburg, NY/Honesdale).

The last no-hitter at Rutgers-Camden came on March 2, 2013 when Sam Shockey threw a five-inning no-no against York (NY) College in a 14-0 Raptor win.
Scott, a transfer from the University of New Haven in Connecticut, struck out at least one batter in every inning, while fanning the side in the second, fourth and seventh innings. Her 16 strikeouts were the fifth-highest single-game total in Rutgers-Camden history and only three shy of the club mark set by Sarah O'Malley against Centenary College on March 29, 2001.

Scott and John Jay junior pitcher Sara McKenna (White Plains, NY/Hendrick Hudson) were locked in a scoreless duel until the third inning, when Scarlet Raptor senior catcher Tabby Dick (Gloucester City, NJ/Gloucester City) hit a one-out home run to left-center field.

The Scarlet Raptors broke the game open in the fifth with five runs – four of them unearned – on four hits and one error, with the big hit being a two-run double down the left field line by junior second baseman Devon Welsh (Maple Shade, NJ/Audubon). The Raptors also received RBI singles from freshman first baseman Jessea Macaluso (Charlotte, NC/Allentown) and junior shortstop Krystine Rice (Marlton, NJ/Cherokee) in the inning, as well as a sacrifice fly by sophomore centerfielder Lindsay Day (Mays Landing, NJ/Oakcrest).

For the game, Rice and Dick both collected two hits and one RBI, while Dick scored twice. Welsh went 1-for-3 with two RBIs and one run.

McKenna took the loss, hurling a seven-hitter with three walks and allowing only two earned runs.
  
The Raptors notched three unearned runs in the first inning on only one hit – a bunt single by sophomore second baseman Cait Eltzholtz (Bellmawr, NJ/Gloucester Catholic) – an error, a wild pitch, a hit batsman and three walks. Sophomore third baseman Katie Larson (Delran, NJ/Delran) added a sacrifice fly in the frame.

Four more runs – two unearned – scored in the second, which opened with an error, another bunt single by Eltzholtz and a line drive home run to center field by Scott. Senior catcher Gabby Colon (Buena, NJ/Buena Regional) added a sacrifice fly later in the frame and the Raptors' last run came in the fourth on a sacrifice fly by freshman leftfielder Allysa Ellis (Vineland, NJ/Vineland).

Eltzholtz had two hits and two runs in the game, while Scott scored twice and drove home three runs and Macaluso also scored twice.