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MAHWAH, N.J. (April 14, 2018) – Two days ago, the Rutgers University-Camden baseball team was lighting up the scoreboard with 11 runs and 17 hits in a big New Jersey Athletic Conference win at Rowan University.
 
Suddenly, the Scarlet Raptors' red-hot bats have gone cold. In the three games since Thursday, the Scarlet Raptor s have combined for two runs and 10 hits after being swept in a NJAC doubleheader by Ramapo College here Saturday, 2-0 and 4-2. Rutgers-Camden was one-hit in the opening game and managed six hits – two of them in the ninth inning – in the nightcap. The sweep came one day after being three-hit in a 3-0 loss in Camden against Rowan.
 
Rutgers-Camden falls to 16-9 overall and 6-4 in the NJAC, while Ramapo improves to 19-11 and 5-5.
 
The Scarlet Raptors will play a non-conference game Sunday at 1 p.m. at Alvernia University. The Lions, currently receiving five votes toward the ABCA/Collegiate Baseball Division III poll, have been ranked as high as 28th nationally this season.
   
Ramapo junior right-hander Cory Heitler fired a one-hit shutout, keeping Rutgers-Camden hitless until senior right fielder Brandon Cornelius (Sicklerville, NJ/Timber Creek) opened the eighth inning with a single up the middle. Heitler (6-1) walked five and struck out six as he won a pitchers' duel over Raptor junior Steven Bloyed (North Brunswick, NJ/North Brunswick). Bloyed (2-2) also tossed a complete game, allowing only four hits in eight innings, while striking out six. He didn't walk any batters and surrendered single runs in the second and fourth innings.
 
In the second, Ramapo sophomore third baseman Vincenzo Sita hit a one-out, opposite-field home run to right field. Senior center fielder Joe Maugeri opened the fourth inning with a triple and scored on a single up the middle by senior first baseman Connor Walsh.
 
Walsh's hit marked the last Roadrunner to reach base off Bloyed, who retired the final 15 batters he faced. Rutgers-Camden, meanwhile, managed to get two runners on base only once, when an error and a walk to Cornelius put two Raptors aboard in the second inning. 
   
Ramapo sophomore starter Kevin Stewart allowed only four hits and one unearned run over eight innings, walking one and striking out six to raise his record to 4-0. Junior Kevin Foulds survived a two-hit, two-walk ninth inning, allowing one run, before wiggling out of a two-out, bases-loaded jam with a fly ball to end the game. He picked up his sixth save of the season.
 
The Roadrunners scored all the runs they needed in the first two innings, notching three off Raptor junior Drew Zytko (Brick, NJ/Brick Memorial), who worked 4-2/3 innings, allowing eight hits and three earned runs. Zytko (2-3) struck out two and walked two. Junior Vincent Sturtevant (Audubon, NJ/Audubon) finished the game with 3-1/3 innings, allowing five hits, one walk and one earned run.
 
The Roadrunners scored a run in the first inning on three singles and a sacrifice fly by senior second baseman Bobby Shannon. They added two more in the second on a pair of walks, a hit and two run-scoring sacrifices.
 
The Scarlet Raptors finally broke their scoring drought in the sixth inning, sparked by a leadoff infield single by sophomore third baseman Matthew Stoots (Browns Mills, NJ/Pemberton). He advanced all the way to third on a pair of passed balls and scored on a sacrifice fly by sophomore catcher Tyler Travis (Berlin, NJ/Eastern Regional). It was the Scarlet Raptors' first run since the eighth inning of Thursday's big win, snapping a string of 24 consecutive scoreless innings.
 
After Ramapo picked up a run on three hits in the bottom of the eighth inning, Rutgers-Camden rallied in the ninth against Foulds. Sophomore first baseman R.J. Concepcion (Audubon, NJ/Audubon) opened the frame with a walk and, after a pair of strikeouts, sophomore shortstop Nolan Gerold (Merchantville, NJ/Camden Catholic) and Cornelius hit consecutive singles, with Cornelius plating Concepcion. Sophomore John Tedeschi (Haddonfield, NJ/Haddonfield Memorial) drew a pinch-hit walk to load the bases before Foulds wiggled out of the jam with a fly to right field, ending the game.
 
Five players had a pair of hits in Newark's 13-hit attack. Concepcion went 2-for-3 with one run for the Scarlet Raptors.
 
Cornelius, pictured above, went 2-for-6 in the doubleheader with one RBI. He was the only Scarlet Raptor to get a hit in both games.