Box Score
FROSTPROOF, Fla. – After a 12-hour period in which the Rutgers University-Camden baseball team saw Wednesday's game time changed, cancelled and then rescheduled for a different time and city, the Scarlet Raptors finally ended up playing Worcester State University here at the RussMatt Central Florida Invitational.
The delay was well worth the wait for the Scarlet Raptors.
Rutgers-Camden pounded out 14 hits on its way to a 13-2 victory over the Lancers. The 13 runs were the most for the Scarlet Raptors since a 14-9 win over Gallaudet University on March 21, 2013.
Rutgers-Camden evens its record at 3-3, snapping a three-game losing streak, while Worcester State falls to 3-4.
The game, originally scheduled for 9 a.m. in Winter Haven, was moved back to 12:30 p.m. before being cancelled by flooded fields, the result of Tuesday's torrential rain. Later in the day it was rescheduled to a 6:30 p.m. game at the Frostproof Sports Complex in the town of Frostproof, 28 miles southeast.
Senior rightfielder
Adrian Gonzalez (Pennsauken, NJ/Pennsauken) and sophomore shortstop
Joe Sigismondi (Blackwood, NJ/Highland Regional) fueled the attack with five and three RBIs, respectively. Gonzalez had the big blow with a grand slam in the five-run fifth inning, the Scarlet Raptors' first slam since Jon Siswo hit one in the seventh inning at Fairleigh Dickinson University-Florham on March 8, 2011.
Trailing, 1-0, Sigismondi singled home the game-tying run in the bottom of the second inning before scoring the go-ahead run on a single by freshman catcher
Jon Theckston (Gloucester, NJ/Gloucester Catholic) Sigismondi added a two-run single to cap the Raptors' three-run third inning. The first run of that frame was plated by a single from junior first baseman
Connor Hall (Delran, NJ/Delran).
In the three-run fourth inning, Gonzalez singled home one run and junior designated hitter
Brandon Porter (Williamstown, NJ/Williamstown) plated two more with a single.
Freshman second baseman
Joe Brooks (Blackwood, NJ/Gloucester Catholic) singled home a run in the fifth before Gonzalez ripped his grand slam.
Gonzalez, Hall, Porter, Sigismondi and Theckston collected two hits apiece for the Scarlet Raptors. Brooks, Gonzalez, Sigismondi, sophomore third baseman
Brett Tenuto (Audubon, NJ/Gloucester Catholic) and freshman leftfielder
Doug Carter (Union, NJ/Union) scored two runs apiece.
While the Scarlet Raptors were unleashing their offensive onslaught, freshman pitcher
Harry Sturgis (West Deptford, NJ/West Deptford) was shutting down the Lancers in his collegiate debut. Sturgis (1-0) worked seven innings of six-hit ball, walking two, striking out two and allowing two earned runs.
Freshman
Jay Gorman (Sewell, NJ/Clearview Regional), making his collegiate debut, worked the final two scoreless innings without allowing a hit. He walked one and struck out two.
The Scarlet Raptors return to action Wednesday when they face Alfred State University (NY) in a 4 p.m. RussMatt game in Auburndale, Florida.
