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UNION, N.J. – Junior southpaw Ron Reagan (Blackwood, NJ/Highland Regional) faced a difficult assignment in the New Jersey Athletic Conference opener for the Rutgers University-Camden baseball team.

The only difficulty, it turned out, was the ability of the nation's fourth-ranked team to hit Reagan.
 The Scarlet Raptors' southpaw tossed a three-hit shutout as Rutgers-Camden blanked Kean University, 3-0, in the rain during the first game of Saturday's scheduled doubleheader.  The second game was postponed and rescheduled for Monday at 3:30 p.m. at Kean.

Reagan hurled no-hit ball for 5-2/3 innings and finished his shutout with only one walk, while striking out five. The complete game, which hiked his record to 3-1, also lowered his earned run average to 1.40.
 The Scarlet Raptors improve to 9-4-1 with their fourth straight win, and are 1-0 in the NJAC. Kean, which is ranked No. 4 nationally in both the ABCA and the D3baseball.com polls this week, falls to 14-4 and 0-1.

Reagan hurled no-hit ball for 5-2/3 innings until the Cougars' leadoff man, senior centerfielder Shane Alvarez (Franklin, NJ/St. Joseph-Metuchen) hit a triple to left-center field. Reagan stranded him at third base on a fly out to end the inning. The only other hits he allowed were a leadoff single in the seventh inning – a man he picked off first base one out later – and a two-out single in the ninth.

The Scarlet Raptors jumped on the board with all three of their runs in the first inning. They started their uprising when leadoff man Brett Tenuto (Audubon, NJ/Gloucester Catholic), their sophomore third baseman, was hit by a pitch. Freshman designated hitter Joe Brooks (Blackwood, NJ/Gloucester Catholic) followed with a walk and senior rightfielder Adrian Gonzalez (Pennsauken, NJ/Pennsauken) dropped down a sacrifice bunt. A ground out by freshman leftfielder Doug Carter (Union, NJ/Union) plated one run and junior first baseman Connor Hall (Delran, NJ/Delran) followed by pulling a two-run home run to right field. The shot stretched Hall's hitting streak to nine games, currently the longest on the team after Brooks went 0-for-3 to snap his 11-game string.

Reagan had to be strong to out-duel Kean junior righthander Matt Mantione (Cedar Knolls, NJ/Whippany Park). Mantione (2-1) allowed only four hits and the three earned runs in his complete game. He walked three, hit one and struck out 11.