Keane\’s single in 15th lifts Raptors past #15 WNEU

AUBURNDALE, Fla. (March 17, 2013) – Freshman Steve Keane (Mantua, NJ/Clearview Regional)singled home the eventual winning run in the top of the 15th inning as the Rutgers University-Camden baseball team outlasted nationally-ranked Western New England University, 7-6, in its opening game here Sunday at the RussMatt Central Florida Invitational.

In a game that took 5:02 to play and featured 28 hits, 17 walks, five hit batsmen and six errors, the Scarlet Raptors were able to raise their record to 6-3 against a team which is ranked No. 15 nationally this week in the D3baseball.com Top 25 poll.

The Golden Bears, who fall to 5-2, had defeated another team from the New Jersey Athletic Conference earlier in the day with a 4-1 win over William Paterson University.