WINTER HAVEN, Florida (March 11, 2023) – The Rutgers University-Camden softball trip to the PFX Spring Games got off to a tough start here Saturday as the Scarlet Raptors dropped a pair of games to fall to 0-4.
 
The Raptors lost their first game, 6-2, against Wentworth Institute of Technology, a school from Boston, Massachusetts. They were defeated in their second game, 4-2, by Benedictine University, out of Lisle, Illinois.
 
The Scarlet Raptors return to action Sunday in Auburndale, Florida. They face Clarkson University at 9 a.m. and Smith College at 11:30 a.m.
   
The Scarlet Raptors outhit the Leopards, 8-4, but Wentworth took advantage of 12 walks, with four of them scoring, to raise its record to 8-2.
 
The Leopards scored an unearned run in the bottom of the first inning before Rutgers-Camden tied the game in the top of the second inning on a leadoff single by junior center fielder Alexa McNee, a stolen base and a two-out RBI single by junior catcher Olivia Bull.
 
Wentworth bounced back with two runs in the bottom of the second on three walks and a double by winning pitcher Julia Schriver (4-0). The Leopards plated their runs on a bases-loaded walk and a fielder's choice.
 
Rutgers-Camden cut the gap to 3-2 in the top of the third inning on three hits, including a RBI single by senior first baseman Zoe Rodriguez. Wentworth countered with a three-run bottom of the third on four straight walks and a two-run single by catcher Briana Beverly.
 
Schriver worked five innings, allowing five hits, one walk and two earned runs, while fanning five.
 
McNee, Rodriguez and senior second baseman Cate Petrucelli had two hits apiece for the Scarlet Raptors.
   
The Eagles (4-0) scored all of their runs in the first inning – two of them unearned – off sophomore pitcher Lindsey Rodzon and hung on to win behind the pitching of freshman Jasmine Lozano. Lozano scattered four hits and one walk, while striking out six. Rodzon allowed 10 hits and no walks, while fanning five.
 
Four hits, including a two-run home run by first baseman Ashley Fisher, and three errors led to the Eagles' four first-inning runs.
 
Rutgers-Camden scored its two runs in the third inning when Bull reached on an error and scored ahead of a two-run home run by senior right fielder Jayden Hunter.