Box Score

CAMDEN, NJ. (April 12, 2016) – With the weather starting to warm up, the Rutgers University-Camden baseball team is beginning to round back into form and escape its own cold spell.
 
Rutgers-Camden ripped nine hits to support senior starter Chris Scarlett (Galloway, NJ/Holy Spirit) and senior closer Kyle Gaff (Gloucester City, NJ/Gloucester City) tied the program record with his 13th career save as the Scarlet Raptors defeated DeSales University, 4-1, in a non-conference game here Tuesday.
 

It was the third straight win for the Scarlet Raptors, following a 1-6 stretch. Rutgers-Camden improves its record to 14-8 overall, snapping DeSales' six-game winning streak. The Bulldogs fall to 15-10.
 
After DeSales scored an unearned run in the top of the first, Rutgers-Camden bounced back to take the lead for good with two runs in the bottom of the frame. Senior first baseman Joe Sigismondi (Blackwood, NJ/Highland Regional) hit a leadoff single and advanced to second on a one-out ground out. With two outs, senior second baseman Brett Tenuto (Audubon, NJ/Gloucester Catholic) singled Sigismondi to third and stole second. The Raptors loaded the bases when junior designated hitter Andujar Cedeno (Bronx, NY/Escuela Nueva Esperanza, DR) was hit by a pitch. Junior catcher Jon Theckston (Gloucester City, NJ/Gloucester Catholic) followed with a two-run double.
 
In the third, the Raptors tacked on another run when junior leftfielder Joe Brooks (Blackwood, NJ/Gloucester Catholic) hit a leadoff double, was sacrificed to third and scored on a Tenuto sacrifice fly. The final run came in the fourth after a leadoff single by freshman third baseman Ray Taylor (Collingswood, NJ/Collingswood). Taylor stole second, Sigismondi walked and Brooks lined an RBI single.
 
While the Scarlet Raptors were adding to their lead, Chris Scarlett was silencing the Bulldog bats. He hurled 7.2 innings of four-hit ball, allowing only one unearned run. He walked two and struck out nine to even his record at 1-1. With two on and two outs in the eighth inning, senior Billy Jackson (Buena, NJ/Buena Regional) relieved Scarlett to end the DeSales threat with a strikeout.
 
Gaff pitched the ninth inning, allowing only a two-out walk, as he earned his second save of the season and record-tying 13th of his career. He tied the mark set by Matt Novella (2001-05).
 
Sigismondi, Brooks and Cedeno collected two hits apiece for Rutgers-Camden, while Theckston had two RBIs.
 
Both teams return to conference action in their next game. Rutgers-Camden hosts Stockton University Thursday in a 3:30 p.m. New Jersey Athletic Conference contest. DeSales plays a 3:30 p.m. MAC Freedom game at FDU-Florham Friday.