UNION, N.J. (4/12/14) – The No. 25 Kean University softball team swept NJAC rival Rutgers-Camden in dramatic fashion, 4-3 and 5-0 on Saturday. Freshman Amanda Berezny provided the walk-off hit in game one while junior Rebecca Rotola twirled a game two shutout.

Game One

Kean struck early; Megan Cegielski walked and Courtney Yard singled before Kelly Moorehead ripped a double to left-center to give the Cougars a quick 2-0 lead.

But Camden struck back with three runs on four hits in the second. Tabby Dick's single scored two as the Scarlet Raptors flipped the advantage to their side, 3-2.

In the home half of the inning, Berezny started a game-tying rally with a single. Her freshman classmate Emily Sabo drove her in to tie the game at three.

Both starters kept the game scoreless for the rest of the regularly-scheduled seven innings. Kean righty Courtney Yard struck out seven Camden hitters, while Brittany Scott fanned three for Rutgers.

As the game moved to extras, Yard stranded the runner placed on second with the help of the Cougar defense, giving Kean a chance to win in the bottom of the eighth.

Tonianne DeMatteo pinch-ran to start at second base for Kean, and Kate Smith bunted her to third. Berezny's single to left on a 2-2 count drove in the game-winning run as the Kean bench ran out to the plate to celebrate.

Game Two

Starter Rebecca Rotola was the story of game two, striking out two on her way to her second shutout of the season. She scattered four hits and did not allow a Raptor runner past second base all day. She walked just one batter in a clinical decimation of the Camden lineup

After two-and-a-half scoreless innings, Jill Martin started the Kean third with a ringing double to the leftfield wall. Cegielski also had a hit in the inning but Kean couldn't make anything happen on the scoreboard.

The Cougars would get all the offense they needed in the fourth inning, however. Moorehead doubled down the leftfield line to lead it off, and Emily Bissonnette singled to put two runners on. Smith drove in what turned out to be the only run Kean would need with a base knock of her own and the offense was humming. Martin singled to leftfield to load the bases and Cegielski brought another run home on a fielder's choice. The biggest blow, however, came on a two-out, bases-loaded error that allowed all three runners to score and made the score 5-0.

Rotola made that stand up the rest of the way. She stayed out of any jam and earned her 12th victory of the season.

The Cougars are now 24-6 and 9-1 in the NJAC, while Camden fell to 14-9-1 and 6-4 in the league

Kean will host William Paterson University on Tuesday for an NJAC doubleheader beginning at 3 p.m.