NEWARK, NJ – Four Scarlet Raider pitchers combined for a 3-hitter as Rutgers-Newark downed DeSales, 10-3, in Bears and Eagles Riverfront Stadium.

Rutgers-Newark 10, DeSales 3

Starter and winner Tom Abair (3-2), senior John Kuder, sophomore Nick Evans and senior closer Michael Hansen handcuffed the Bulldogs (12-9), allowing just two earned runs while combining to strike out nine and walk just four as the Raiders improved to 8-13 on the season.

Abair went six full innings, striking out four and walking two against two hits. One hit was a 2-run home run to leftfielder by DeSales leftfielder Jack Kavetski in the fourth inning, but Rutgers-Newark was already safely ahead, 6-0, after an eruption in the bottom of the third.

Kuder, Evans and Hansen combined to allow just one hit and a walk against five strikeouts with each hurling one full inning. A pair of fielding errors led to an unearned run against Evans in the eighth.

The Raiders broke open the game with four consecutive doubles in the third inning. After walks to centerfielder Michael DiCenso, second baseman Matt Connors and shortstop Patrick Reitemeyer loaded the bases with one out, senior designated hitter Anthony Yeswita ripped a line-drive double down the leftfield line to push across the first two runs. Senior third baseman Joe Furnaguera followed with an almost identical double into the leftfielder corner which brought home two more tallies. Senior first baseman Matt Lingo doubled down the rightfield line to plate Furnaguera before sophomore catcher Anthony Palladino ended the outbreak with a double off the leftfield wall which brought home Lingo.

Yeswita and Lingo also had an RBI singles in the 2-run fourth inning before Rutgers-Newark added a pair of runs in the fifth a pair of throwing errors.

Junior leftfielder Michael Cassese went three for four to pace Rutgers-Newark's 11-hit attack. Connors reached base four time via a first-inning single, two walks and a hit-by-pitch – scoring three times while stealing a base.

Kavetski drove in all three Bulldog runs, getting hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the eighth to force the final DeSales score. 

Rutgers-Newark visits Ramapo on Friday at 3:30 p.m. for a New Jersey Athletic Conference game before starting a string of six home games in seven days at Riverfront Stadium.  NJAC foe Kean starts of the string on Saturday with a 2 p.m. doubleheader.