Box Score

GALLOWAY, N.J. (April 19, 2018) – The Rutgers University-Camden baseball team laced up its hitting shoes in a Wednesday game at Neumann and by the time the Scarlet Raptors returned to their New Jersey Athletic Conference schedule here Thursday, those hitting shoes were polished up and ready to go.
 
Rutgers-Camden ripped 19 hits – including 4-for-5 performances by a pair of sophomores, catcher Tyler Travis (Berlin, NJ/Eastern Regional) and shortstop Nolan Gerold (Merchantville, NJ/Camden Catholic) – as it routed Stockton University, 13-1, in a NJAC game. The big offensive explosion comes one day after a 21-hit performance in a 16-7 win at Neumann University.
 
Rutgers-Camden has now scored in double digits in nine of its 18 victories. The Scarlet Raptors are 18-10 overall and 7-4 in the NJAC. Stockton is 6-17 overall and 3-8 in the conference.
 
While the offense was raking, junior ace Ian Scheidemann (Cherry Hill, NJ/Cherry Hill West) was turning in another dominating performance on the mound. Scheidemann raised his record to 6-0, hurling four-hit ball over eight innings while walking one, striking out seven and allowing only one earned run. Senior Peter Han (Millburn, NJ/Millburn) closed out the game with a perfect ninth inning.
 
Rutgers-Camden struck early and often, scoring once in the first inning and five times in the second. The opening frame started with one-out singles by Travis, pictured above,  and freshman first baseman R.J. Concepcion (Audubon, NJ/Audubon). A passed ball left the runners at second and third for the red-hot senior right fielder Brandon Cornelius (Sicklerville, NJ/Timber Creek), who tied single-game program records at Neumann with his six hits and three doubles. Cornelius continued his production with the first of his two sacrifice flies in the game. He finished the day 1-for-2 with a double, one run and three RBIs, making him 7-for-8 with four doubles, five runs and seven RBIs over the two-day stretch.
 
The Raptors turned five hits and a hit batsman into five runs in the second inning, which included a two-run single by freshman center fielder Billy Eisler (Pennsauken, NJ/Camden Catholic), a two-run triple by Concepcion and a run-scoring double by Cornelius.
 
Stockton scored its lone run in the fourth inning off Scheidemann, marking only the second run he has allowed in four NJAC starts, while working 35 innings and going 4-0 in conference play. Rutgers-Camden, however, tacked on single runs in the fifth and sixth innings before erupting for another five-run inning in the eighth. That frame featured four hits, a walk and a hit batsman. It included RBI singles from junior second baseman Chris Jones (Washington Township, NJ/Bishop Eustace Prep) and Gerold and was capped by a three-run home run from sophomore designated hitter Matt Yanick (Palmyra, NJ/Palmyra). It was the first home run of the season and fourth career homer for Yanick, who went 3-for-5 with two runs and three RBIs.
 
Gerold scored three runs and drove home one to go along with his four hits, while Travis added two runs scored to his four-hit game. Eisler, Concepcion and sophomore third baseman Matthew Stoots (Browns Mills, NJ/Pemberton) each had a 2-for-5 game, with Eisler and Concepcion notching two RBIs apiece and Stoots adding one. Concepcion also scored two runs and Eisler scored once.
 
The Raptors host the Ospreys Friday at 3:30 p.m. in the back end of a home-and-home NJAC series.