CAMDEN, N.J. (March 12, 2025) – The Rutgers University-Camden baseball team ripped 23 hits and produced a nine-run fifth inning on its way to a 20-3 victory over Rosemont College here Wednesday afternoon.
 
The Scarlet Raptors, who received 37 votes toward the D3baseball.com Top 25 poll this week, improved to 8-1 with their fifth straight win. The Ravens fell to 5-6.
 
Rutgers-Camden's 20 runs are the most for the Raptors since another 20-3 victory, coming against Cairn University on March 18, 2023. The nine-run fifth inning was the biggest since the Scarlet Raptors opened a game at York College of Pennsylvania on March 6 with an 11-run first inning.
 
Sixteen Scarlet Raptors collected at least one hit, with junior left fielder Jacob Watson leading the way with a 4-for-4 game, scoring three runs and driving home two. He also added a stolen base to increase his program career record to 85.
 
Senior center fielder Steven Shaffer, junior left/right fielder Isaiah Pinkney, sophomore right fielder Brandon Petrick and junior catcher Evan Carbone had two hits apiece, with Pinkney drilling a solo home run in the eighth inning for his first home run since transferring to Rutgers-Camden.
 
Pinkney, Shaffer, Petrick and Carbone all scored two runs. In addition to Watson, the Raptors also had two RBIs from Pinkney, Shaffer, Petrick, junior second baseman Frankie Romond, freshman designated hitter Ryan Joseph and sophomore first baseman Brice Bradley.
 
Rutgers-Camden took the lead for good with a three-run first inning, sparked by table-setting singles from Watson and Shaffer. Romond drove home the first run with a sacrifice fly before the Raptors received back-to-back RBI doubles from graduate student designated hitter Jack Murphy and senior first baseman Diego Salazar.
 
The nine-run fifth inning featured seven hits, three hit batsmen and a walk. The big blows in the inning were two-run doubles by Petrick and Joseph.
 
Freshmen Joseph, Will Gural and Chris Smith, and sophomore Justin Figueroa collected their first collegiate hit at Rutgers-Camden.
 
Gearing up for a spring break trip that begins on Saturday, the Scarlet Raptors had pre-determined pitching splits and senior starter Chase Cooper (2-0) picked up the win with a scoreless first inning. Rutgers-Camden used seven pitchers, with junior Tyler Griswold working the longest, throwing 2.2 innings of two-hit shutout ball.
 
The Scarlet Raptors' week-long spring break trip starts Saturday in Winter Haven at the RussMatt Central Florida Invitational. They will play the University of Mount Union (Alliance, Ohio) at 4:30 p.m.