GALLOWAY, N.J. (April 14, 2022) – After struggling to score runs almost all afternoon, the Rutgers University-Camden baseball team finally managed to tie the score at 2-2 in the top of the ninth inning here Thursday.
 
Moments later, however, the Scarlet Raptors watched Stockton University score a walk-off run in the bottom of the ninth as the Ospreys edged the Scarlet Raptors, 3-2, in a New Jersey Athletic Conference game.
 
The win lifts Stockton to 13-13-1 overall and 4-3 in the NJAC. Rutgers-Camden falls to 15-12 overall and 2-5 in conference play.
 
The Scarlet Raptors scored a first-inning run after a leadoff double by sophomore center fielder Auggie Uzdanovics set the table. He advanced to third on a fly out by senior shortstop Jesse Gerdes and scored on a single by freshman third baseman Andrew Brown.
 
That run held up until the third inning, when Stockton scored two unearned runs on two hits and two errors.
 
In a tight pitching duel between Scarlet Raptor sophomore Nick Diaz and Osprey senior Michael Wynne, neither team could muster any more offense. Diaz worked 6.1 innings, allowing six hits, three walks and the two unearned runs. He struck out eight. Wynne worked six innings of four-hit ball, walking three and allowing the one run. He fanned five.
 
Stockton's bullpen kept it a 2-1 game until the top of the ninth, when freshman Diego Salazar stroked a one-out pinch-hit single. Freshman Sebastian Vega was inserted as a pinch-runner and advanced to second on a single by freshman right fielder Frankie Romond. An error loaded the bases before Uzdanovics singled home the tying run. Stockton went to the bullpen for freshman Dylan Sakele, who worked out of the bases-loaded jam with a fly out and a swinging strikeout.
 
In the bottom of the frame, sophomore catcher Sam Nieves led off with a double against the third Raptor hurler, junior Jared Vega. After a wild pitch and a strikeout, junior Luke Fabrizzi singled up the middle to plate the winning run.
 
Sakele (3-1) earned the win with two-thirds of an inning pitched and one strikeout. Jared Vega (1-1) took the loss, working 1.1 innings and allowing two hits and one run. He struck out two.
 
Uzdanovics went 3-for-5 with one run and one RBI from the Scarlet Raptors' leadoff spot. Romond was 2-for-4, adding to the stellar week which saw him go 5-for-5 in a win over Neumann University Tuesday. Brown went 2-for-5.
 
Rutgers-Camden hosts Stockton Friday in the back end of the home-and-home NJAC series. Game time is 3:30 p.m.