NEWARK, NJ – Rutgers-Newark junior Billy Cerruti and Scranton senior Justin Champagne staged a classic pitchers' duel, combining to strike out 25 in seven innings, in a 2-1 Scranton victory in Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium.

Scranton 2, Rutgers-Newark 1

Cerruti (1-2) struck out a career-high 13 while allowing just six hits and a walk while Champagne (2-1) posted a dozen strikeout while yielding just four hits and no walks in a game that lasted just one hour and 45 minutes.

A 2-out triple into the right centerfield gap by freshman centerfielder Michael Eckman plated Scranton freshman shortstop Tim LeCompte in the second to make it 2-0 and push across what proved to be the winning run.

A first-inning solo home run by Royal senior first baseman Chris Bligh and a fifth-inning solo shot to left by Scarlet Raider sophomore Chris Ballester accounted for the other runs. Ballester was the only Raider with more than one hit.  A third-inning single by junior centerfielder Michael DiCenso was Rutgers-Newark's other hit.

It was the first game of a doubleheader.