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AUBURNDALE, Fla. (March 18, 2016) – The Rutgers University-Camden baseball team is making believers out of a lot of national powers this season, and the Scarlet Raptors added to their list of impressive victims with a doubleheader sweep over Wisconsin-Stevens Point here Friday at the RussMatt Central Florida Invitational.
 
Rutgers-Camden won the opener, 10-0, in seven innings with a 10-run rule that is in effect at the RussMatt event. The Scarlet Raptors took the nightcap, 5-4, in 10 innings.
 
Rutgers-Camden, ranked No. 19 in the ABCA poll and No. 25 in the D3baseball.com Top 25, improves to 8-2 overall and 5-2 against its rugged schedule during spring break, which features seven of its eight games against teams ranked or receiving votes in the national polls. The Scarlet Raptors also beat another team that was receiving votes before they left for Florida, putting them 6-2 against teams in the national polls so far this year.
 
Wisconsin-Stevens Point, which was ranked No. 10 in the latest ABCA poll and No. 13 in this week's D3baseball.com Top 25 poll, fell to 1-2 a day after its season-opening win at the RussMatt Invitational.
 
The Scarlet Raptors play their final game at the RussMatt Central Florida Invitational Saturday at 11 a.m. in Lakeland, facing another national power, Wisconsin-Whitewater. The Warhawks, who won the 2014 national championship, are ranked No. 4 in the latest ABCA poll and No. 9 in this week's D3baseball.com Top 25 poll. 
  
The Scarlet Raptors rode the shutout pitching of senior ace Billy Jackson (Estell Manor, NJ/Buena Regional) and a 13-hit attack to the win. Jackson, who raised his record to 3-0, hurled a six-hitter without any walks, while fanning 10.
 
Offensively, junior left fielder Joe Brooks (Blackwood, NJ/Gloucester Catholic) led the attack, going 3-for-4 with two runs and one RBI. Senior shortstop Joe Sigismondi (Blackwood, NJ/Highland Regional) and junior left fielder Doug Carter Jr. (Union, NJ/Union) both had two hits, two RBIs and one run scored, while junior catcher Jon Theckston (Gloucester City, NJ/Gloucester Catholic) went 2-for-3 with one run.
 
Sigismondi doubled in a pair of runs in the third inning to give Jackson all the cushion he needed. The Raptors' five-run fifth featured five hits and four errors, while Rutgers-Camden scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh to end the game. Junior right fielder Zach Ellin (Marlton, NJ/Cherokee) tripled home the game-ending run.
  
The Scarlet Raptors broke a 4-4 tie in the top of the 10th on a bases-loaded sacrifice fly by Sigismondi as senior Kyle Gaff (Gloucester City, NJ/Gloucester City) picked up the win in relief of junior starter Andrew Biggs (Millville, NJ/Millville). Gaff (1-0) worked the final 2.1 innings, allowing two hits and no runs, while fanning four. Biggs hurled 7.2 innings, allowing eight hits and four earned runs, while striking out nine. After allowing single runs in the first two innings, he hurled shutout ball until Stevens Point tied the game with two eighth-inning runs.
 
Rutgers-Camden fought back from an early 2-0 deficit to take a 4-2 lead. The Raptors got a run in the fourth when Theckston reached on an outfield error and scored on a wild pitch. A three-run seventh was capped by Ellin's two-run double.