Box Score SEWELL, N.J. (April 9, 2019) – By the time the Rutgers University-Camden and Widener University baseball teams had finished their marathon non-conference game here Tuesday at Rowan College at Gloucester County, the teams had combined for 24 hits, six errors, 10 pitchers and eight walks over three hours and 13 minutes.
 
They also combined for 18 runs, with Rutgers-Camden posting a 12-6 victory to snap a two-game losing streak and raise its record to 11-12. The Scarlet Raptors banged out 17 hits, one shy of their season high, and the second time in five games they had 17 hits.
 
Widener falls to 11-18-1.
 
With the mid-week game being used as a pitching tune-up for upcoming conference games, both teams pre-determined pitching duties, resulting in both starters – Raptor junior Mike Calabrese and Pride junior Joey Zettlemoyer – getting the decisions. Calabrese (1-1) hurled three-plus innings, allowing two hits, six walks and four earned runs. Zettlemoyer (1-3) was charged with two runs – one unearned – and four hits in 1-1/3 innings, leaving in a 2-0 hole from which Widener never recovered. He allowed an unearned run in the first inning and a leadoff opposite-field home run to Raptor junior third baseman Matthew Stoots in the second.
 
Leading by a 2-1 score, the Scarlet Raptors effectively put the game away in the bottom of the third inning when the first seven batters hit safely on the way to an eight-hit, seven-run inning. Sophomore catcher R.J. Concepcion and senior first baseman Chris Jones opened the frame with singles and scored ahead of an opposite-field home run to right by junior designated hitter Matt Yanick. The hit parade continued against Pride sophomore southpaw Jake Good, who had worked out of a second-inning jam for Zettlemoyer. Stoots and junior shortstop Nolan Gerold singled, moved up on a passed ball and scored on a single by junior second baseman John Guccione. A triple by sophomore right fielder Rob Scanlan plated Guccione before a strikeout snapped the consecutive hits. Junior left fielder Wayne Jackson picked right up with the Raptor offense, banging a RBI double to plate Scanlan.
 
The Pride cut their deficit to 9-4 with a three-run fourth, knocking Calabrese out of the game, before sophomore Mike Paciocco doused the flames and went on to record the top pitching performance of the day. Paciocco worked four innings of four-hit, shutout ball, striking out six in his first mound appearance of the season.
 
The Raptors tacked on three runs in the seventh inning after Jackson opened the frame with an infield single and was removed for sophomore pinch-runner/left fielder Billy Eisler. Eisler stole second and scored on a double by Concepcion, who was plated by a Jones single. Jones eventually scored on a single by Gerold.
 
Widener added its final two runs in the eighth on a two-run homer by sophomore third baseman Greg Elfreth.
 
For the game, eight different Scarlet Raptors collected two hits, including Jackson, Concepcion, Jones, Yanick, Stoots, Gerold, Guccione and Scanlan. Stoots and Guccione extended their hitting streaks to eight games.
 
Yanick finished with three RBIs, while Guccione had two. Concepcion, Jones and Stoots scored two runs apiece.
 
The Scarlet Raptors return to action Thursday when they continue their tour of "home" fields around the area. They face Rowan University in a 3:30 p.m. New Jersey Athletic Conference game that will be played at Camden County College.