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Scott Guise
8
Winner York (Pa.) YCP 1-0
4
Rutgers Camden RCU 2-1
Winner
York (Pa.) YCP
1-0
8
Final
4
Rutgers Camden RCU
2-1
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
York (Pa.) YCP 0 0 0 4 0 3 1 0 0 8 10 1
Rutgers Camden RCU 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 4 14 0

W: Vincenzi, AJ (1-0) L: Zachary Cerveny (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Derek Behrenshausen - Asst. Director of Athletic Communications

Baseball Wins on Opening Day

CAMDEN, N.J. - The York baseball team opened the 2022 season with an 8-4 victory at Rutgers-Camden on Tuesday evening.

Team records
York 1-0
Rutgers-Camden 2-1

Pitchers of Record
WP: AJ Vincenzi (1-0)
LP: Zachary Cerveny (0-1)

How It Happened
Rutgers-Camden got on the board first with one run in the first. The Scarlet Raptors had a chance to really do some damage in the opening frame as they had runners on first and third with one out after scoring their first run. Fortunately for York, the Spartan defense came through with a clutch double play to get out of the inning when Connor Pickle made the catch on a fly ball to right field and then fired a seed to Jack Barry at first to double-up Jack Murphy who had ventured too far off the bag.

The Spartans were held to just one hit through the first three innings, but offense came alive in the fourth as they racked up four runs on three hits. The big guns got the rally started as Austin Denlinger led off the inning with a double to center and came around to score as Barry followed him with a single. Joe Capobianco singled and Brendan Martin walked to load the bases before Camden finally got the first out of the inning on a Pickle fly out.

With the bases still loaded in the fourth, York went on to score its last three runs of the inning without getting a hit. Brian Jakubek drew a walk, Joey Ricciardi got hit by a pitch and Craig Wiley hit a sacrifice fly to left before the Scarlet Raptors finally got out of the frame on a Robby Elzinga inning-ending fielder's choice with the out made at second.

After surrendering the one run on two hits, Zach Reed gave up just one hit in the second before his day came to a close. AJ Vincenzi took over the pitching duties for the next two innings and had just one runner reach second base as he allowed just three hits with three strikeouts during his two scoreless frames.

The Spartan bats came to life again in the sixth as they scored three runs on three hits. After a Martin strikeout to start the inning, Pickle, Jakubek and Ricciardi went on to hit three-straight doubles, including a two-run poke by Ricciardi to bust open a 7-1 York lead.

Camden got a run back in the bottom of the sixth on an RBI groundout, but Spartan hurler Todd Hendrix was otherwise solid through the fifth, sixth and seventh. Hendrix surrendered just three singles with three strikeouts and six ground outs in his three innings of work.

Barry tacked on an insurance run in the seventh as he drove in Denlinger to give the Spartans an 8-2 advantage. The extra runs almost became a necessity as the Spartan defense worked out of bases-loaded jams in both the eighth and ninth innings, including a game-ending double play in the ninth, while only surrendering one run each inning.

Notes
York improves to 8-9 all-time against Rutgers-Camden and beat the Scarlet Raptors for the first time in Camden since May 3, 1989 when the Spartans squeaked out a 10-9 victory in the season finale … the Spartans are 5-6 in season openers under head coach Mike Scappa having won the last two-straight … Jack Barry led York with three hits in a 3-for-5 performance and his two RBI moved him into sole possession of fifth-place on York's all-time list with 143 … Austin Denlinger led the team in extra-base hits with a pair of doubles … Joey Ricciardi led all players with a career-high three RBI in first-career opening day start.

Up Next
The Spartans travel to Lynchburg for a three-game set with the 15th-ranked Hornets beginning Friday and wrapping up Sunday.



 
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