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Box Score 2 CAMDEN, N.J. – Heading into their big New Jersey Athletic Conference doubleheader here Saturday, the Rutgers University-Camden softball team was tied for first place in the NJAC with nationally-ranked Montclair State University.
The No. 3-ranked Red Hawks broke that tie with a pair of tight games as they swept the Scarlet Raptors, 4-0 and 2-1.
The wins lift Montclair State to 21-1 overall and 6-0 in the NJAC, giving the Red Hawks a 16-game winning streak. The Scarlet Raptors drop to 11-6-1 overall and 4-2 in the NJAC, snapping their four-game winning streak.
Rutgers-Camden returns to NJAC action Tuesday when it hosts The College of New Jersey in a 3 p.m. doubleheader.
Montclair State 4, Rutgers-Camden 0
The Red Hawks' senior ace
Alex Hill (Parsippany, NJ/Parsippany Hills) tossed a four-hit shutout in the opening game, walking one and striking out 11 to raise her record to 15-1. Hill had to be strong to out-duel Raptor sophomore righty
(Gloucester City, NJ/Gloucester City) and a single by sophomore second baseman
Cait Eltzholtz (Bellmawr, NJ/Gloucester Catholic). Hill relieved Cullen and, after walking Scott to load the bases, got one out before sophomore third baseman
Katie Larson (Delran, NJ/Delran) plated the run with a sacrifice fly to right field.
Eltzholtz, who had a single in both games, was the lone Raptor with multiple hits on the day.
