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Rutgers-Camden University won its second straight New Jersey Athletic Conference softball championship Sunday with a 4-1 victory over Rowan University at Montclair State.
With the win, the third-seeded Scarlet Raptors, the defending NCAA Division III national champions, received an automatic bid to the Division III championship tournament. It is their fourth straight tournament appearance.
The conference title was their third in four years.
Junior first baseman Kathleen Dreitlein was the hitting star for Rutgers-Camden, a winner of nine straight games, with a two-run home run in the second inning. Senior hurler Megan Farrell (Bishop Eustace) allowed just three hits while striking out five en route to her 13th win in 18 games. She also went 2-for-3 with a run scored and an RBI double.
Rutgers-Camden opens defense of its NCAA title Thursday in the regional at Fayetteville, N.C. The Scarlet Raptors, third-seeded in the regional, play sixth-seeded Christopher Newport (33-8) at 2 p.m. If they win that game in the double-elimination tournament, the Raptors play at 4 p.m. Friday against the winner of the Lynchburg-Marietta game.
Methodist College (32-8) of Fayetteville, N.C. is seeded No. 1 in the regional. Rutgers-Camden lost a pair of games earlier this season to Methodist (8-0, 5-1).
In the NJAC baseball tournament, Rowan University was eliminated Sunday by Kean University 13-4 in a semifinal contest.
In other NJAC baseball news, Rowan sophomore third baseball Tom Ready (Triton) and Ramapo junior outfielder Nick Sbarra (Washington Twp.) were selected to the All-Conference first team.
The College of New Jersey senior third baseman Matt Zonies (Cherokee) and Richard Stockton sophomore outfielder Chris Discher (Cherry Hill West) were second-team honorees.
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