KISSIMMEE, Fla. (March 14, 2026) – The Rutgers University-Camden softball team opened its trip to The Spring Games here Saturday with a comeback win over the University of Maine-Farmington, 5-4, before being one-hit in a 3-0 loss to the University of Southern Maine in its second game.
 
Rutgers-Camden (3-3) plays a pair of games in Clermont, Florida, on Sunday. The Scarlet Raptors face Salem State University (Salem, Mass.) at 2:45 p.m. and Eastern Connecticut State University (Willimantic, Conn.) at 5 p.m.
   
Trailing, 4-2, entering the bottom of the seventh inning, the Scarlet Raptors took advantage of a walk, a pair of hits and some infield errors by the Beavers to score three times in the frame and pull out the win.
 
Sophomore catcher Zoie Mantzell sparked the winning rally with a leadoff walk and was sacrificed to second by freshman left fielder Sade Whittingham. She scored on a single by junior shortstop Ava Iepson before junior center fielder Kali Baker delivered a double that ended up scoring two runs on infield errors, with Baker coming all the way home with the winning run.
 
The rally made a winning pitcher out of freshman reliever Natalie D'Angelo (2-0), who worked 1.1 innings in relief of junior starter Sammie Friel. D'Angelo allowed one hit, one walk and one unearned run, while fanning two. Friel worked 5.2 innings, allowing seven hits, three walks and three earned runs, while notching eight strikeouts.
 
Maine-Farmington junior Emma DeBoer (0-1) hurled a complete game of 6.1 innings, allowing nine hits, one walk and five runs (three earned), while fanning four.
 
Rutgers-Camden scored a run in the first inning on one-out singles by  junior third baseman Alana Gannon and freshman first baseman Kaede Walsh. After a sacrifice by junior right fielder Victoria Connelly, Gannon scored on an infield single by Mantzell.
 
Maine-Farmington (0-1) tied the game in the top of the third, but Rutgers-Camden bounced back with a run in the bottom of the frame on a double by Baker and an RBI single by sophomore designated player Madi Carr.
 
That 2-1 lead held up until the top of the sixth inning, when a pair of singles and a sacrifice set up a two-run single by sophomore first baseman Lisa Truchin. The Beavers added an unearned run in the seventh inning to take a 4-2 lead before Rutgers-Camden rallied for the win.
 
Baker had a pair of doubles and two runs scored for the Scarlet Raptors, while Mantzell went 2-for-2 with a run and one RBI.
   
In the Raptors' second game of the day, University of Southern Maine sophomore Mia Coots (1-0) threw a one-hitter to win a pitchering duel over Scarlet Raptor junior Anna Milillo (0-2). Coots walked three, struck out six and allowed only a leadoff single in the fifth inning by Walsh.
 
Milillo also had a strong outing, with a five-hitter in a six-inning complete game. She walked only one and allowed three earned runs. The Huskies broke open a scoreless deadlock with two outs in the bottom of the third inning on a pair of singles and a two-run double by freshman third baseman Emily Wheeler.
 
Southern Maine added an insurance run in the bottom of the sixth inning on two hits, including a run-scoring double by sophomore pinch-hitter Ava Gerrish.