NEW YORK – A three-run fourth inning carried Rutgers-Newark to a 4-2 win over Baruch at Bronx Community College as sophomore pitcher
Ryan Williams posted his seventh victory of the season.
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The Scarlet Raiders (22-15) got two hits each from sophomore shortstop
Patrick Reitemeyer and juniors
Anthony Yeswita and
Joe Furnaguera.
Williams (7-1), who pitched a pre-arranged three-inning stint, was the lucky winner, getting three runs from his teammates in the top of the fourth after surrendering a pair of runs in to bottom of the third. Senior
Kevin Matawa went three innings and junior
John Kuder went two before closer
Michael Hansen finished off the ninth as the Raider staff shut down the Bearcats for the remainder of the day.
In the fourth, the Raiders loaded the bases on a single by Furnaguera, a walk by senior catcher
Gerard Russomanno and a hit-by-pitch by senior designated hitter
Matt Halligan. Then, freshman leftfielder Chris Ballester walked, sophomore second baseman
Matt Connors singled and senior centerfielder
Brian Gill grounded into a fielder’s choice to push across the three runs.
A two-out RBI single by Reitemeyer in the first inning put the Raiders on the board first.
A triple by third baseman
Jason Valentin brought home
Jorge Rosado, who was aboard on a fielding error, to break the ice for Baruch in the third. Valentin then scored on a single by
David Chestnut to account for all of the Bearcat scoring.
Rutgers-Newark visits Wesley College in Dover, Delaware, on Sunday for a 1 o’clock non-conference doubleheader as the team goes for a new high water mark in the tenure of eighth-year head coach
Mark Rizzi. The Raiders won 23 games in 2006 – the year that they took the ECAC Metro Championship.
The bracket for the ECAC Metro Championship will be announced on Monday, and Rutgers-Newark figures to be one of the top seeds in the playoff which begins play next Wednesday.