NEWARK, NJ – Scarlet Raiders freshman shortstop
Tina Aita had a pair of hits and score a run in the nightcap, but Richard Stockton swept a New Jersey Athletic Conference doubleheader, 10-0 and 16-3, on Alumni Field.
NCAA Box Score & Play-by-Play:
RSC 10, R-N 0 RSC 16, R-N 3
Senior shortstop
Samantha Horner, junior first baseman
Kelly Dodd and senior centerfielder
Lindsay Connell had five hits apiece and combined to drive in 15 runs as Richard Stockton (11-3, NJAC 2-0) piled up 32 hits in nine offensive innings while Rutgers-Newark registered just nine hits against two Stockton pitchers.
In the opener, junior
Kaitlyn Corica (4-0) blanked the Raiders on just three hits. A lead-off double by freshman first baseman
Kat Renteria in the fourth was the Raiders' long extra base hit. Sophomore second baseman
Emily Ibarra beat out an infield single in the first and losing pitcher
Amber Affholter (1-6) led off the third with a single through the left side for the other Rutgers-Newark hits. Renteria drew a two out walk in the first to provide the Raiders with their only other baserunner.
Dodd and Connell each had a two-run double in the four-run third inning which broke open the game. Sophomore leftfielder
Laura Dubell hammered a two-run homer in the second. Connell, who with three for three, had a triple in the second and a two-run single to cap a three-run fourth for the Ospreys.
In the nightcap, Dodd went three for three with an RBI single in the twp-run first, a solo home run and an RBI triple in the 10-run third. Horner went three for four with a pair of doubles.
Sophomore pitcher
Brittany Giacomelli (3-0) weathered a three-hit, one-run first inning by Rutgers-Newark to get the win. She gave up six hits, struck out three and walked no one in five full innings.
After two quick outs, sophomore first baseman
Shannon Davis singled through the middle ahead of an RBI double to left by Renteria. Aita singled to left to put two aboard, but Giacomelli got junior catcher
Sam Weer to pop out to the third baseman in foul territory to end the threat.
Rutgers-Newark scored twice in the fourth on singled by Aita and Affholter sandwiched around a pair of infield throwing errors by Stockton.
Ibarra, who played second base in the nightcap, led off the fifth with a single through the middle for the other Raider hit.
Rutgers-Newark (1-13) hosts Rutgers-Camden in an NJAC twinbill on Alumni Field on Tuesday at 3 o'clock.