FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (February 23, 2018) – Behind a gem from senior hurler Mike Zibrin and 30 runs on 23 hits, the Rutgers University-Newark baseball team improved to 2-1 on the young 2018 season with an 30-0 win over the College of New Rochelle.
 
Rutgers-Newark put the game out of reach early, scoring seven times in the first inning, three more times in the second and 11 times in the fourth.
 
Sophomore Connor Clare plated the first run of the game in junior Ryan Zucker, and junior Dominic Magliaro drove in the next two with a single. Freshman Chris Suleski drove in his first career run when senior Anthony Perconte scored to make it 4-0, and walks to senior Brian Boulineau and senior Adam Tricarico each brought home a run.
 
A Perconte base knock in the second allowed Dominic Magliaro to score, with a Luke Magliaro single and Zucker groundout pushing the lead to 10-0.
 
After a scoreless third, Rutgers-Newark exploded in the fourth to put the game completely out of reach. Sophomore JC Ball drove in the first run of the inning, with Zucker and Boulineau following  with RBI base hits. Tricarico, Clare and Luke Magliaro were next with back-to-back-to-back run-scoring rips, and a two-run double from Suleski was next. Ball's second hit of the inning was a triple and brought around Suleski, and Zucker's third knock of the game capped the innings' scoring.
 
Senior starter Mike Zibrin allowed just two hits and a walk over his first four innings, striking out two and inducing six ground-ball outs.
 
A Perconte sacrifice fly accounted for the Newark tally in the fifth, with RBI hits for Boulineau, Dominic Magliaro and Perconte bringing home four runs in the top half of the sixth inning.
 
Zibrin was able to work around a walk, a hit and an error in the sixth to keep New Rochelle off the scoreboard, and the veteran's final line was sterling, giving up no runs in six innings of work. He scattered three hits, walked two and struck out two.
 
Newark rounded out its scoring with four more in the eighth. Sophomore Tommy Scanlon singled and two runs came around to score on an error, and another error allowed the final two markers to cross.
 
Newcomer Timothy Kales tossed two scoreless innings in relief of Zibrin, stranding two baserunners, and sophomore Vincent Conti struck out one in his inning of work.
 
Hot with the Bat:
- Ryan Zucker went 3-for-4 with two runs scored, three RBI, a walk and a stolen base
- Brian Boulineau went 2-for-5 with two runs scored, three RBI and a walk
- Connor Clare went 3-for-6 with two RBI and two runs
- Anthony Perconte finished 2-for-3 with three runs, four RBI, a steal and a walk
- Luke Magliaro went 3-for-4 with three RBI, four runs and two walks
- Chris Suleski went 2-for-5 with three RBI and three runs scored
- Dominic Magliaro totaled two hits in four trips, three runs, three RBI, two steals and two walks
- JC Ball was 2-for-3 with two walks, two RBI and three runs
- Adam Tricarico went 1-for-3 with two RBI, three walks and three runs

Notes:
- Rutgers-Newark went 23-for-51 at the plate with 15 walks
- Newark stole four bases in four tries
- The Scarlet Raiders ripped five doubles and one triple (JC Ball)
- R-N scored 30 runs without a single home run
- 26-of-30 runs score featured a run batted in
- 12 players had at least one hit
- Nine players had multiple RBI
- Eight players had multiple hits
 
Up Next: Rutgers-Newark will take on Frostburg State University and CNR tomorrow in a doubleheader beginning at 12 p.m. in Fayetteville.
 
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