CAMDEN, N.J. (April 3, 2026) – On a day when the Rutgers University-Camden baseball team unveiled its New Jersey Athletic Conference championship banner for the 2025 season, the Scarlet Raptors had a banner finish to their NJAC game here Friday.
 
Junior second baseman Austin Dubler hit a walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth inning to cap the Scarlet Raptors' wild 8-7 victory over The College of New Jersey.
 
Rutgers-Camden improved to 12-10 overall and 4-0 in the conference, while TCNJ fell to 11-12 and 2-2.
 
Unlike Thursday at TCNJ, when the Scarlet Raptors rallied from an 8-2 deficit to post a 17-8 win, Friday's game looked like the tables might turn. Rutgers-Camden built a 6-2 lead through three innings, before the Lions started chipping away with single runs in the fourth and fifth innings.
 
The Scarlet Raptors made it a 7-4 game in the bottom of the sixth when sophomore right fielder Gavin McCaffrey hit a slow roller to third base for a single, advanced all the way to third on an errant pickoff throw and scored on a wild pitch.
 
In the top of the eighth inning, however, TCNJ put a pair of runners on base with a walk and a single and senior first baseman Tyler Provost launched a three-run home run to left field to tie the game at 7-7. It was his second home run of the day, adding to the opposite-field solo shot he hit to right field in the fifth inning.
 
Heading to the bottom of the ninth inning, sophomore Danny Torres Jr. worked a pinch-hit walk to open the inning. Freshman pinch runner Cameron Stephenson advanced to second base on an infield single by junior left fielder Matt McAleer. McCaffrey bunted into a fielder's choice, erasing Stephenson at third base, but Dubler followed with a single up the middle, scoring McAleer with the winning run.
 
McAleer went 4-for-5 with two runs scored and one RBI, giving him seven hits in two days against TCNJ. McCaffrey went 3-for-6 with two runs and one RBI, while sophomore designated hitter Jake Slusarski went 2-for-4 with one RBI. Dubler was 2-for-5 with one run and one RBI.
 
Both Dubler and McCaffrey had a pair of stolen bases, including a double steal in the first inning with McCaffrey swiping home.
 
Provost went 2-for-5 with two home runs, two runs and four RBIs for the Lions, while junior third baseman Braden Dromboski went 3-for-5 with one run scored.
 
Raptor junior Gavin Cunard (1-0) picked up the win with 1.2 innings in relief, while TCNJ junior Jalen Maharaja (1-3) was the losing pitcher for the Lions for the second straight day against Rutgers-Camden.
 
The Scarlet Raptors return to NJAC play Saturday when they host Rutgers-Newark in an 11:30 a.m. NJAC doubleheader.