MAHWAH, N.J. (April 19, 2025) – The Ramapo College baseball team held Rutgers University-Camden to nine hits in a pair of shutout losses as it swept the Scarlet Raptors in New Jersey Athletic Conference doubleheader here Saturday, 2-0 and 3-0.
 
The losses drop Rutgers-Camden to 22-13 overall and 6-8 in the NJAC.
 
Ramapo, which received 24 votes toward the recent D3baseball.com Top 25 poll and 13 votes toward the ABCA Division III Top 30 poll, improved to 23-9 overall and 7-5 in the conference.
 
The Scarlet Raptors return to action Tuesday with a 6 p.m. non-conference home game against Centenary University. Rutgers-Camden will celebrate Senior Night that day.
   
Ramapo junior James Pazdera and senior Ryan Lasko combined to blank Rutgers-Camden on five hits. Pazdera (5-1) worked 7.1 innings, allowing four hits and three walks, while striking out 10. Lasko earned his eighth save, working 1.2 innings of one-hit ball, while walking one.
 
The Roadrunners spoiled a brilliant effort by Raptor senior Daniel Robeson (2-2), who allowed only four hits, two walks and two runs in seven innings. Robeson struck out seven. Rutgers-Camden senior Joey Rappaport hurled a perfect inning in relief, striking out one.
 
The only two runs came in the bottom of the seventh inning. Graduate first baseman John Higgins opened the frame with a double and senior catcher Jesse Swartout followed with a home run.
 
Graduate first baseman Jack Murphy had two hits for Rutgers-Camden as the lone player in the game with multiple hits.
   
Roadrunner senior Jack Martin (5-1) threw a four-hit shutout and struck out 15 Scarlet Raptors. Freshman left fielder Ryan Joseph went 2-for-4 to account for half of the Rutgers-Camden hits.
 
Ramapo scored all three of its runs in the first inning off Raptor senior starter Chase Cooper (4-2), who worked six innings, allowing seven hits and one walk. He struck out five. A single by Swartout plated the only run Martin needed, while graduate center fielder Matt Lalomia added a two-run single.
 
Freshman left fielder Julian Caruso went 3-for-4 to lead the eight-hit Ramapo attack.