GLASSBORO, N.J. (April 12, 2019) – Sometimes the smallest of bad breaks can turn into the biggest momentum changers.
 
Such was the case in the three-run third inning on a rainy day here Friday, that broke open a 1-1 duel between a pair of All-American pitchers and sparked nationally-ranked Rowan University to a 10-2 victory over Rutgers University-Camden.
 
The win was the 10th in a row for Rowan, which also defeated Rutgers-Camden, 6-2 in 11 innings, on Thursday at Camden County College. The Profs, ranked No. 5 nationally in the D3baseball.com Top 25 poll and No. 8 in the ABCA/Collegiate Baseball Division III rankings, improved to 20-5 overall and 7-1 in New Jersey Athletic Conference play Rutgers-Camden falls to 11-14 overall and 3-5 in the conference.
 
Rowan scored a first-inning run off of Raptor senior ace Ian Scheidemann, the reigning NJAC Pitcher of the Year, on a pair of singles and a hit batsman. Rutgers-Camden, meanwhile, wasn't having any luck against Rowan's senior ace, Danny Serreino, who held the Raptors hitless for 4-2/3 innings before freshman center fielder Brett Yurgin singled. In the third, however, three consecutive Rowan errors helped the Raptors tie the game, with the tying run scoring when Serreino threw away a sacrifice bunt by freshman second baseman Jared Weaver.
 
In the bottom of the frame, a single by Rowan senior center fielder Matt Woods and an infield error were sandwiched around a strikeout, setting the stage for arguably the biggest play of the day. Senior first baseman Anthony Harrold slapped a hard ground ball toward Weaver at second, but a brutal hop nearly took his head off and the ball carried all the way into the right-center field gap. What might have been an inning-ending double play turned into a two-run double and Harrold scored a moment later on a single by junior second baseman Alex Kokos.
 
Rowan added an unearned run in the fourth inning, tacked on a run in the sixth and added four more the rest of the way, including on a two-run home run by Kokos in the Profs' three-run seventh inning.
 
Rutgers-Camden scored its final run in eighth inning on consecutive singles by a trio of juniors: DH Matt Yanick, left fielder Wayne Jackson and third baseman John Guccione. Guccione, who saw his eight-game hitting streak snapped in Thursday's loss, picked up a RBI on his hit.
 
For the game, Rowan junior DH Mitch Walker went 4-for-5 with four runs, while Kokos went 3-for-4 with one run and four RBIs.
 
Rutgers-Camden managed only six hits off Serreino and a pair of Rowan relievers. Yanick had two of them, while also scoring a run. Guccione was 1-for-4 with one run and one RBI.
 
Scheidemann (5-1) worked six innings, allowing 11 hits and seven runs, five of them earned. He didn't walk a batter and struck out seven.
 
Serreino (2-2) allowed three hits and one unearned run over seven innings. He walked three and struck out 12.
 
Rutgers-Camden plays a designated home doubleheader at Rowan University Saturday at 11:30 a.m., hosting NJAC foe Montclair State University.