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NEWARK N.J. (April 7, 2018) – The Rutgers University-Camden baseball team ran its season-opening New Jersey Athletic Conference winning streak to five games in the opener of a doubleheader here Saturday, but the Scarlet Raptors' status as the last undefeated NJAC team came to an end in the nightcap.
 
Rutgers-Camden outlasted Rutgers-Newark, 10-6, in the opening game before the host team won the nightcap, 9-4.
 
Rutgers-Camden stands at 13-6 overall and 5-1 in the NJAC, while Rutgers-Newark is 7-15 and 1-5.
 
The second-game loss snapped the Scarlet Raptors' winning streak at nine games, the program's second-longest winning streak ever. The longest winning streak in program history came in the first 17 games of the 2002 season (Feb. 28-March 29). The loss also snapped the Raptors' five-game NJAC winning streak, one shy of the program record set in 2002 and tied in 2003.
 
The Scarlet Raptors will play a non-conference home game Sunday at 1 p.m. game against Stevens Institute of Technology.
   
An apparent romp turned into a nail-biter before the Scarlet Raptors finally outlasted the Scarlet Raiders in the opening game. Rutgers-Camden built an early 7-0 lead, only to see Newark cut its deficit to 7-6 with three-run frames in both the fourth and sixth innings.
 
Rutgers-Camden finally padded its lead in the eighth inning on a two-run double by sophomore designated hitter Matt Yanick (Palmyra, NJ/Palmyra) and tacked on a run in the ninth inning.
 
The Raptors scored runs in the first four innings. They took a 5-0 lead after three innings and tacked on another run in the fourth on an RBI single by sophomore left fielder John Tedeschi (Haddonfield, NJ/Haddonfield Memorial). In the two-run first, senior right fielder Brandon Cornelius (Sicklerville, NJ/Timber Creek) singled home one run and junior second baseman Chris Jones (Washington Township, NJ/Bishop Eustace Prep) plated another with a ground out. A two-run second featured RBI singles by freshman first baseman R.J. Concepcion (Audubon, NJ/Audubon) and Cornelius, while sophomore third baseman Matthew Stoots (Browns Mills, NJ/Pemberton) doubled home Tedeschi in the fourth inning.
 
Junior southpaw Steven Bloyed (North Brunswick, NJ/North Brunswick) worked the first five innings to earn the win, allowing seven hits and one walk, while striking out three. He allowed three runs, two of them earned, as he raised his record to 2-1.
 
Newark added three more runs in the sixth on three walks, two hits and an error. Raptor junior Vincent Sturtevant (Audubon, NJ/Audubon) entered the game in that inning and worked out of a huge jam to preserve the 7-6 lead. He went the rest of the way to earn his first career save, working 3-2/3 innings of one-hit, shutout ball. He walked one and struck out two.
 
Cornelius, Jones and Yanick all had two hits and two RBIs for the Raptors, while Stoots and Tedeschi had two hits and one RBI. Jones also scored three runs.
   
The Scarlet Raiders grabbed a 5-0 lead through six innings, aided by a three-run fifth that featured a two-run single by senior center fielder Anthony Perconte. Perconte went 3-for-5 with two runs and three RBIs in the nightcap after going 4-for-5 with one run and one RBI in the opener.
 
Rutgers-Camden bounced back to make it a tight game with a three-run seventh inning, which included a two-run single by sophomore catcher Tyler Travis (Berlin, NJ/Eastern Regional) and a RBI double by Concepcion. The host team put the game away with a four-run bottom of the eighth inning, capped by a three-run home run from senior first baseman Brian Boulineau.
 
Travis, Concepcion and Tedeschi had two hits apiece for the Scarlet Raptors. Tedeschi, pictured above, went 4-for-9 on the day with a double, two runs and one RBI. Stoots, Yanick and Concepcion all had three hits in the doubleheader.