NEWARK, N.J. (March 27, 2018) – The Rutgers University-Newark baseball team suffered a 3-0 defeat at the hands of visiting Keystone College Tuesday afternoon at a cold Riverfront Stadium in Newark.
 
The Scarlet Raiders drop to 5-10 overall and return to action against the City College of New York Friday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. Keystone improves to 10-5 on the season and extends its winning streak to seven games.
 
Starting pitchers Luis Rojas for Rutgers-Newark and Christopher Adams for Keystone were the story as both hurlers threw very well in tough conditions.
 
Adams went eight innings to improve to 2-0 on the season, walking none and striking out eight. He scattered four hits, giving up two to junior Ryan Zucker and one each to junior Dominic Magliaro and senior Justin Marks.
 
Rojas – making just his second start of the year – tossed seven excellent frames, allowing three runs (two earned) on seven hits. He walked two and struck out three and was able to pick up his defense on several occasions, keeping the Scarlet Raiders within striking distance throughout. Rojas – who was the team's closer last year – looks primed to be in the rotation moving forward.
 
Junior Casey Hanley fired the final two innings for Rutgers-Newark and was excellent as well, allowing one hit and striking out two. The junior was able to work around a pair of errors in the ninth to keep the Newark bats within three.
 
Senior Tyler Widitz picked up his fourth save of the season for Keystone.
 
The Giants scored two runs in the fourth on one hit, executing a pair of sac bunts, and they added an insurance run with two knocks and a squeeze bunt in the fifth.
 
Magliaro doubled in the fifth, but Adams was able to retire the final two Scarlet Raiders to step to the plate, and the tying run came to the plate after a Zucker single and Keystone error in the sixth, but junior Luke Magliaro's line shot to left was snared before it could drop.
 
An error and Marks single brought the tying run to the plate again in the seventh, but a deep fly ball to right-center off the bat of sophomore John Klimowich was tracked down by center fielder Mohammed Hussein.
 
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