ASTON, Penn. (Nov. 10, 2018) –Rutgers University-Camden men's soccer freshmen Liam Craver and Vergil Douglas collected second-half goals to lift the second-seeded Scarlet Raptors over third-seeded Hood College, 2-0, here Saturday afternoon in the opener of the 2018 Division III Men's Soccer Championship.
 
The Scarlet Raptors will face fourth-seeded William Paterson University Sunday at 12 p.m. in the ECAC quarterfinals. Paterson, seeded fourth in Pod 2, edged top seed and host Neumann University, 2-1, in Saturday's other game. Rutgers-Camden and Paterson played twice already during the season, both in Camden, with the Raptors taking a 3-1 victory Oct. 20 in a regular-season New Jersey Athletic Conference game and then losing a first-round NJAC playoff game one week later, 2-1.
 
Sunday's winner will advance to the semifinal rounds, which will be held Saturday, Nov. 17, at a site to be determined. The title game will be held at that same site on Sunday, Nov. 18, at 12 p.m.
 
Rutgers-Camden, which reached the ECAC title game last season before losing, 3-2, at host Lebanon Valley College, is looking for its fifth ECAC championship. The Raptors won titles in 2006, 2007, 2010 and 2014. The team now owns a 16-2 record in its seventh ECAC tournament since Tim Oswald became the Raptors' head coach in 2006.
 
Both Rutgers-Camden (14-5-2) and Hood (8-8-1) collected 13 shots in the game, with each team netting four in the opening half and nine in the second half. Rutgers-Camden held a 6-3 advantage in corner kicks, including a 5-1 second-half margin.
 
The Scarlet Raptors finally broke the scoring ice at 75:41 on the first career goal by Craver (pictured above), an unassisted tally. They added an insurance goal by Douglas, his second career tally, at 86:24. It was assisted by freshman Kaito Kitazawa and junior Cristian Ognibene.
 
Both goalies, Hood's Danny Castillo and Raptor senior James Brett, collected five saves. For Brett, his 18th career shutout moved him alone into fourth place on the program's all-time list, breaking the tie he had with Pete DeFeo (1984-87) at 17 shutouts. The win was the 42nd of his career, the second-highest total ever at Rutgers-Camden.