Box Score CENTER VALLEY, Penn. – The DeSales University baseball team blew a seven-run lead and then pushed across the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning on a single by senior first baseman
Mark Westdyk (Pompton Plains, NJ/Pequannock Township) as it outlasted Rutgers University-Camden, 11-10, in a non-conference baseball game here Monday afternoon.
DeSales, which took advantage of 14 hits, seven walks, three hit batsmen and six Scarlet Raptor errors, improves to 13-12.
Rutgers-Camden, which had posted a 4-1 record over the previous four days, including wins over nationally-ranked Rowan and York, falls to 18-8-1.
The Bulldogs took a quick 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning on an error, a bunt single and a two-run triple by junior catcher
Nick Fischer (Leesburg, VA/Loudoun County). Rutgers-Camden countered to take its only lead in the second inning when senior rightfielder
(Blackwood, NJ/Highland Regional), the fifth Raptor pitcher, took the loss, allowing the ninth-inning run after working out of an inherited jam in the eighth. Reagan (5-2) worked one inning and allowed two hits, one walk and one hit batsman, in addition to one run.
Scarlet Raptor sophomore
John Waters (Galloway, NJ/Absegami) started the game, working 3.1 innings and allowing eight hits, two walks and seven runs, three of them earned. Senior
Dashon Jones (Newark, NJ/Newark East Side) pitched the next 1.1 innings, allowing two hits, three walks and three earned runs, while striking out one.
Freshman
Jay Gorman (Sewell, NJ/Clearview Regional) worked 2.1 scoreless innings in his second collegiate appearance, allowing one hit and one walk while striking out two. Sophomore
Adam Scarlett (Galloway, NJ/Holy Spirit) worked one-third of an inning in the bottom of the eighth, allowing one hit, hitting a batter and striking out one, before being relieved Reagan.
Brooks, Gonzalez and Hall had two hits apiece for the Raptors, with Gonzalez collecting four RBIs.
Mauro and DePaul had three hits and two RBIs apiece for the Bulldogs. Fischer had two hits and four RBIs.
Rutgers-Camden returns to action Thursday and Friday with a home-and-home series with New Jersey Athletic Conference rival Richard Stockton College. The Scarlet Raptors visit the Ospreys on Thursday at 3:30 p.m.
