CAMDEN, N.J. - Rutgers-Camden took a 9-1 lead after five innings and held off a late Cortland surge to earn a 13-8 win over the visiting Red Dragons in a non-league baseball contest.
 
Cortland, ranked 15th nationally by D3baseball.com, dropped to 5-5 with the loss. Rutgers-Camden improved to 7-1.
 
Frankie Romond led the Scarlet Raptors offensively, finishing 3-for-6 with a homer, triple, double, six RBI and two runs. Jacob Watson went 3-for-4 with a double, two walks and four runs and Ryan Nutley was 2-for-4 with a walk and three runs. Ethan Carpenter pitched five innings for the win, allowing three runs, two earned, on seven hits. He struck out six and walked one. Jacob Shapley, Rutgers-Camden's second reliever, pitched the final three and two thirds innings for the save. He gave up two runs on five hits with five strikeouts and two walks.
 
Tommy Poggi (Briarcliff) was 3-for-3 with a double and run scored for Cortland. Five other players recorded two hits as the Red Dragons finished the game with 15 hits. Talon Elkins (Syracuse/West Genesee) was 2-for-2, Luke Schartner (Bayport/Bayport-Blue Point) was 2-for-4 with a double and two RBI, Nolan Smith (Hamburg) ended 2-for-4 with a walk and two runs, Dylan Tierney (East Greenbush/Columbia) was 2-for-5 with a double and Lucas Granger (Horseheads) went 2-for-6 with a double and two RBI.
 
Chris Bonacci (Syracuse/West Genesee) drew two walks, scored twice and drove in a run. Nick Hanson (Ladera Ranch, CA/Aliso Niguel) suffered the loss after allowing four runs on four hits in an inning and two thirds. He struck out three and walked four.
 
Cortland took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first, but the hosts scored two runs in the first and second innings, one in the third, and two more in both the fourth and fifth. Cortland drew within three runs with five runs in the sixth, but Romond hit a three-run homer in the seventh to make it 12-6. The Red Dragons tallied twice in the eighth and the hosts added a run in the bottom of the inning. Cortland finished with 12 runners left on base and Rutgers-Camden stranded 11 runners.
 
Cortland will travel to eighth-ranked Trinity University of Texas for a four-game series - single games on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday - and will play one game at Southwestern University in Texas the following Tuesday.