Raptors split to end Florida trip
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Press release
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (March 23 2013) – The Rutgers University-Camden baseball team finished its trip to the RussMatt Central Florida Invitational with a doubleheader split against Western Connecticut State University here Saturday, closing their spring break with a 6-4 mark in 10 games down south.
The Scarlet Raptors edged the Colonels, 8-7, in the opener and the Danbury, Connecticut-based school turned the tables in the nightcap with its own one-run victory, 5-4.
Rutgers-Camden returns home with an 11-7 record, while the split leaves Western Connecticut State with a 3-3 mark.
Rutgers-Camden returns to action Tuesday with a 3:30 p.m. game at FDU-Florham. The Scarlet Raptors open up their New Jersey Athletic Conference play on March 30, hosting Kean University in an 11 a.m. doubleheader. Kean currently is ranked No. 8 in the D3baseball.com Top 25 poll and No. 9 in the ABCA/Collegiate Baseball Division III national poll.
Game 1
Spingler went 2-for-4 with two runs as the only Raptor with multiple hits. Senior leftfielder Nicco Esgro (Glassboro, NJ/Glassboro) had a two-run single in the fifth inning.
Senior Adam Satanoff (Pitman, NJ/Pitman) worked six innings, allowing all seven earned runs, in raising his record to 4-0. He allowed 10 hits and five walks, while striking out seven. Junior Tommy Potts (Bordentown, NJ/Bordentown Regional) worked a perfect seventh inning for his first save of the season and the second of his career. He struck out two batters.
Game 2
The Colonels scored two runs in the sixth inning to break a 3-3 tie and the Scarlet Raptors were only able to counter with one in the top of the seventh, one a leadoff home run by junior third baseman Adrian Gonzalez (Pennsauken, NJ/Pennsauken). A single and a hit batsman placed the go-ahead runs on base for the Raptors before Western Connecticut freshman starter Craig Frobel (Southington, CT/Southington) got the last two outs to record his first collegiate win. Frobel (1-0) allowed seven hits, four walks and four earned runs, while striking out five.
Raptor freshman Chris Scarlett (Galloway, NJ/Holy Spirit) worked 5-2/3 innings, allowing 10 hits and five earned runs as his record fell to 0-2. He walked four and struck out seven.
Gonzalez was 3-for-4 with a single, double and home run for the Scarlet Raptors.