FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (March 11, 2023) – On its way down to South Carolina for spring break, the Rutgers-Camden baseball team visited the University of Mary Washington for a doubleheader here Saturday.
 
The red-hot Eagles swept the Scarlet Raptors, 11-4 and 6-4, as they raised their record to 12-5. The results dropped Rutgers-Camden to 3-4.
 
The Scarlet Raptors will compete in The Ripken Experience in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, beginning Monday. Rutgers-Camden will face Susquehanna University at 7 p.m. Monday and continue its spring break trip on Tuesday with a 9 a.m. game against Suffolk University.
   
The Eagles scored four times in the fifth inning to break open a 1-0 game and added five more runs in the seventh.
 
Mary Washington scored an unearned run in the first inning and didn't have a hit off of Raptor sophomore starter Daniel Robeson until the fifth inning, four hits led the four runs. The big blow was a three-run home run by senior third baseman Jonathan Sedmak.
 
Rutgers-Camden cut its deficit to 5-3 with a three-run top of the sixth inning, which included a leadoff double by sophomore left fielder Frankie Romond and a RBI single by senior designated hitter Jack Murphy. One out later, sophomore third baseman Diego Salazar drilled a two-run home run to left field.
 
The Eagles scored one run in the bottom of the sixth and added five in the seventh on four hits, a walk and a sacrifice fly. Sophomore left fielder Ryan Schwarz had the key hit with a bases-clearing triple.
 
Sedmak and Schwarz both had two hits, three RBIs and two runs scored for Mary Washington. Salazar was 1-for-4 with one run and two RBIs for the Scarlet Raptors, while Murphy was 1-for-4 with one run and one RBI.
   
The Eagles scored three times in the first inning and built a 5-0 lead through six innings before the Scarlet Raptors cut the gap with two-run innings in the seventh and ninth.
 
A two-run triple by Schwarz keyed the Eagles' first inning and he scored a run in the sixth on a double by junior first baseman Alex Purgason. In the third, junior designated hitter Ty Lowe hit a solo home run.
 
The Scarlet Raptors scored twice in the seventh on three hits and a double steal by junior shortstop Giacomo Antonicello and freshman right fielder Jacob Watson, with Antonicello swiping home. Romond plated the other run of the frame with a single.
 
In the ninth, senior second baseman Danny Vazquez was hit by a pitch and Murphy singled, setting the stage for RBI singles by sophomore first baseman Andrew Brown and Salazar before the Eagles stranded the tying runs on base.
 
Mary Washington had five players collect two hits apiece in its 13-hit attack. Romond had two of the Scarlet Raptors' seven hits.