Box Score

GLASSBORO, NJ. (April 11, 2016) – After a slow start to its New Jersey Athletic Conference season, the two-time defending regular-season NJAC champion Rutgers-Camden baseball team needed to start turning things around in a big conference makeup game here Monday.
 
The Scarlet Raptors got the sparks they needed with a stellar long relief appearance from senior southpaw Andrew Gottstein (Bloomsburg, PA/Bloomsburg) and a three-run 10th inning rally as they outlasted Rowan University, 7-4.
 

The game, which was rescheduled from a rainout last Thursday, left Rutgers-Camden with a 13-8 record overall and a 2-4 mark in the NJAC. Rowan slipped to 13-10 overall and 3-1 in conference play.
 
The two teams traded second-inning leads before Rutgers-Camden tied the game at 2-2 in the third inning, then both clubs scored single runs in the fifth and seventh innings to enter the eighth inning deadlocked at 4-4. After a pair of scoreless frames, the Scarlet Raptors broke things open in the 10th inning, scoring a trio of two-out runs.
 
With one out in the 10th, senior third baseman Billy Jackson (Estell Manor, NJ/Buena Regional) singled to center field, but was erased when junior centerfielder Cory Kreamer (Philadelphia, NJ/Father Judge) hit into a fielder's choice. Kreamer stole second and waited patiently through a long at bat by senior first baseman Joe Sigismondi (Blackwood, NJ/Highland Regional), who battled Rowan junior reliever Rob Grilli (Middletown, NJ/Middletown South) before ripping a single up the middle to plate Kreamer with the go-ahead run. Moments later, junior leftfielder Joe Brooks (Blackwood, NJ/Gloucester Catholic) ripped a two-run home run over the right field fence.
 
Gottstein (3-1) retired the Profs in order in the bottom of the 10th to earn his well-deserved win, capping a 6.1-innng stint in relief of sophomore starter Carter Fichter (Haddonfield, NJ/Haddonfield Memorial). Gottstein allowed six hits, two runs (only one earned) and one walk in his long relief outing, while striking out two.
 
Rutgers-Camden jumped on the board in the top of the second inning on a leadoff home run to right center by senior second baseman Brett Tenuto (Audubon, NJ/Gloucester Catholic). The lead was short-lived, as Rowan bounced back with five hits and two runs in the bottom of the frame, which ended with a stellar play by Tenuto at second base to strand a pair of runners.
 
The Scarlet Raptors tied the game in the third after a single by Sigismondi and a walk to Brooks set the table. Freshman shortstop Chris Jones (Sewell, NJ/Bishop Eustace Prep) sacrificed the runners to second and third before Tenuto delivered an RBI single.
 
In the fifth inning, Rutgers-Camden grabbed a 3-2 lead on singles by Tenuto and junior designated hitter Andujar Cedeno (Bronx, NY/Escuela Nueva Esperanza, DR), followed by a sacrifice fly from junior rightfielder Doug Carter Jr. (Union, NJ/Union). Rowan, however, got a sacrifice fly of its own in the bottom of the frame from sophomore designated hitter Monny Strickland (Egg Harbor Township, NJ/Egg Harbor Township) to tie the game.
 
With two outs in the top of the seventh, Carter walked, stole second and scored on a single by Jackson. Again, Rowan answered with the tying run in the bottom of the frame on an RBI single by Strickland.
 
Gottstein worked out of a two-on, one-out jam in the bottom of the ninth with a double play, setting up the Scarlet Raptors' winning 10th-inning rally.
 
Brooks and Tenuto had three hits and two RBIs apiece to power the Scarlet Raptors' 14-hit attack. Sigismondi, Jackson and junior catcher Jon Theckston (Gloucester City, NJ/Gloucester Catholic) added two hits apiece.
 
Junior third baseman Matt Jolly (Mount Laurel, NJ/Lenape) had three of Rowan's 13 hits.
 
Rutgers-Camden jumps right back into action Tuesday, hosting DeSales University in a 3:30 p.m. non-conference game.