KISSIMMEE, Fla. (March 18, 2026) – The Rutgers University-Camden softball team closed its trip to The Spring Games in Florida here Wednesday by splitting a pair of games.
 
The Scarlet Raptors (5-5) lost to SUNY-Cortland, 5-1, in their first game of the day before defeating Alverno College, 10-3. Rutgers-Camden will open its New Jersey Athletic Conference schedule on March 28 when it travels to New Jersey City University for a 1 p.m. doubleheader.
   
SUNY-Cortland (Cortland, New York) raised its record to 3-5, scoring one run in the second inning, three in the third and one in the seventh.
 
The Red Dragons scored in the second on a bases-loaded walk to sophomore catcher Laila Smith. In their three-run third, they collected four hits, including a two-run double by junior left fielder Kayla Prendergast. In the seventh, freshman center fielder Morgan Ellerbrock had a run-scoring double.
 
Rutgers-Camden scored its lone run in the fourth inning when junior designated player Alana Gannon drew a one-out walk, advanced on a ground out and scored when freshman first baseman Kaede Walsh reached on an infield throwing error.
 
Rutgers-Camden managed only one hit off junior pitcher Kaitlyn Macumber (1-2), who walked three, struck out four and allowed only one unearned run. The lone hit came on a leadoff single in the third inning by sophomore catcher Zoie Mantzell.
 
Junior Sammie Friel (2-2) took the loss for the Scarlet Raptors, working 2.1 innings and allowing five hits, four runs and two walks, while fanning four. Freshman Natalie D'Angelo worked the final 4.2 innings, allowing four hits, one walk and one unearned run. She struck out two.
 
Prendergast and senior designated player Shelby LaMont had two hits apiece for Cortland.
   
Rutgers-Camden closed its spring trip in style, exploding for seven runs in the second inning on the way to a 10-3 win over Alverno College (Milwaukee, Wisconsin).
 
With one out in the second inning, Walsh was hit by a pitch and junior right fielder Victoria Connelly walked. Freshman left fielder Sade Whittingham also was hit by a pitch, before a strikeout left the bases loaded with two outs. Junior shortstop Ava Iepson followed with a two-run single and advanced to second base on a wild pitch. Junior second baseman Gianna Bauer added a two-run single and junior center fielder Kali Baker walked. They both moved up on a wild pitch before scoring on a two-run single by Gannon. After walks to sophomore third baseman Madi Carr and Walsh reloaded the bases, Connelly added a run-scoring walk.
 
The Alverno Inferno (0-8) scored three unearned runs in the fourth inning off Friel, aided by two hits, two errors and a hit batsman.
 
The Scarlet Raptors completed their scoring with a three-run seventh inning, aided by two hit batsmen, a two-run triple by Baker and an RBI single by Gannon.
 
Friel hurled a six-hitter, allowing only three unearned runs and one walk to raise her record to 3-2. She struck out six.
 
Bauer went 2-for-3 with two runs and two RBIs, while Gannon was 2-for-4 with one run and three RBIs for Rutgers-Camden. Baker went 1-for-3 with two runs and two RBIs and Iepson was 1-for-4 with one run and two RBIs. Connelly walked three times, scored a run and had one RBI.