NEWARK, NJ – Senior Amber Affholter went five for seven with two triples and five runs scored as Rutgers-Newark earned a doubleheader split with SUNY Old Westbury on Alumni Field. The Scarlet Raiders (10-18) took the opener, 11-4, with the Panthers (11-13) getting even with a 5-3 victory in the nightcap.

Rutgers-Newark 11, Old Westbury 4      
Old Westbury 5, Rutgers-Newark 3

In the opener, Affholter roped two triples while going three for four with three runs scored top help the Raiders rally from a 3-0 deficit with all 11 of their runs being scored in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings.

Freshman Monica Bagan followed Affholter's first triple in the fourth inning with a towering home run to right centerfield. Junior shortstop Tina Aita then singled before rookie outfielder Nicole Odell, who went three for four in the game, hammered a triple to rightfield to level the score before scoring the go-ahead run on an infield grounder.

The Raiders broke the game open with five runs in the fifth as Affholter had a single, Bagan drove in her third run with an infielder grounder and Aita hammered an RBI double to centerfield to fuel the rally.

Affholter tripled to lead off the sixth ahead of an RBI single by freshman catcher Monica Liotto who later scored on a single by Odell to cap the 11-hit Rutgers-Newark attack.

Freshman righthander Angela Riscinti (7-9) went the distance, scattering eight hits while striking out six and walking no one. She allowed just two earned runs.

In the nightcap, Panther freshman lefthander Alyssa Clancy (6-3) blanked the Raiders on a lone single during the opening three innings as the visitors constructed a 5-0 lead against Raider rookie hurler Samantha Veneziano (3-9).

Affholter started the Raiders scoring by getting a one-out single in the fourth inning and scoring on a triple to right centerfield by Liotto. Each player collected two hits to account for half of the Rutgers-Newark total for the game.

Affholter and Liotto had back-to-back singles in the sixth before Bagan rifled a 2-run triple off the right centerfield fence. But Bagan was stranded on third as Clancy got a strikeout and an infield ground to end the uprising.

Rutgers-Newark travels to New Jersey City on Saturday for a New Jersey Athletic Conference doubleheader. The first pitch is set for 1 p.m.