Box Score

NEWARK, NJ – Sophomore Gerry Patrizio delivered the game-winning hit in the fifth and the Rutgers University-Newark bullpen blanked Misericordia over the final three innings for a 7-5 win in Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium.
 
Patrizio, the regular second baseman who went two for three in his first start at third base, delivered a 2-run single to right field to cap a 3-run outburst which gave the Scarlet Raiders (13-20) a 7-4 lead.  Consecutive singles by junior centerfielder Jason McCluskey, freshman designated hitter Chas Bohannon and rookie catcher Josh Cote plated the first run in the fifth inning rally before a walk by freshman second baseman Jeff Reinecke set the table for Patrizio's clutch hit.
 
Reinecke knotted the score at 4-4 with his first career home run in the fourth inning.
 
Sophomore shortstop Ryan MacFarlane set off a 3-run Raider rally in the second inning with a 2-run single to right field.
 
Freshman Rafael Totesautt, Bohannon and MacFarlane each hurled an inning of shutout relief to make a winning out of senior reliever Ryan Staub (2-1) who went two full innings.  Staub allowed a run on a wild pitch in the sixth inning, yielding a double and two walks.  MacFarlane picked up his second save by sending the Cougars down in order in the ninth.
 
Four unearned runs and four walks shortened the day of Raider starter Billy Taylor.  He allowed just one hit, but that was a bases-clearing 2-out double by freshman shortstop Kyle Seawards in the third which staked Misericordia to a 4-3 lead.  In the first inning, a run scored on an errant throw of a steal of third base. Taylor struck out six.
 
Rutgers-Newark host Rutgers-Camden on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. to start a run of four NJAC contests in three days which will determine the team's postseason fate.  The Raiders are in the thick of the hunt for one of six NJAC Championship Tournament berths.  Rutgers-Newark is at Rutgers-Camden on Friday at 3:30 p.m. before hosting William Paterson in a regular-season ending doubleheader on Rutgers University's Bainton Field on Saturday at 11:30 a.m.