Box Score DAVENPORT, Fla.—No. 18 D3baseball.com/No. 26 ABCA Babson College exploded for 10 runs in the fifth inning on the way to defeating No. 19 D3baseball.com/No. 25 ABCA Rutgers University-Camden 11-4 on Wednesday afternoon at the Northeast Regional Park. 

With its second consecutive victory, Babson improves to 7-2 on the year. Rutgers-Camden, which lost for just the second time over its last 10 outings, is now 11-3 overall. 

First-year Gabe Cushner (Harrington Park, N.J.) was 3-for-4 with two RBI and two runs scored, while graduate students Tanner Santos (Bethany, Conn.) and Brant Savage (Charlton, Mass.), and senior Walter Sadowsky (Morristown, N.J.) each finished with two runs batted in. Graduate student Thomas Parisi (Somers, N.Y.) added an RBI double and junior Ryan Hvozdovic (Hillsborough, N.J.) doubled as part of a two-hit day for the Beavers. 

Senior Ryan Nutley (Logan Township, N.J.), classmate Diego Salazar (Highland Park, N.J.) and sophomore Brandon Petrick (Marlton, N.J.) all finished with two hits and senior Billy Richards (Blackwood, N.J.) drove in a run with a third-inning sacrifice fly for the Scarlet Raptors. Sophomore John Ormsby IV (Haddonfield, N.J.) got the start struck out four and did not allow a hit over three shutout innings before handing the ball to senior Joey Rappaport (Somerdale, N.J.), who allowed 10 runs, five of them earned on six hits in 1.1 innings to fall to 0-2 on the year. 

Babson had just one hit over the first four frames and trailed 2-0 before sending 16 men to the plate during its 10-run fifth-inning uprising. Parisi got things started with a double to the gap in right center that brought home junior Chris Basile (Miami Beach, Fla.) and Cushner and Parisi scored on Savage's infield single to give the Green and White a 3-2 advantage. 

Graduate student Jack Julian (Manchester, Mass.) was plunked and late scored on a error make it 4-2, Sadowsky ripped a single through the left side to bring home two more runs and Hvozdovic scored on another error extending the lead to 7-2. Cushner plated Sadowsky with a single that hit off the second-base bag and Santos capped the inning with a base hit to left that brought home Basile and Cushner for the second time in the inning for a 10-2 bulge. 

Junior Vinnie Purpura (Hopkinton, Mass.) recorded a strikeout in two shutout innings of relief to earn his first career win, and first-year Dillon James (Attleboro, Mass.) was terrific over 3.2 innings of work allowing two runs while striking out six. 

Both teams return to action on Thursday at Babson faces Amherst at 9 a.m., while Rutgers-Camden takes on St. John's (Minn.) at 3:45 p.m. 

GAME NOTES
•    Wednesday's match was the first all-time between Babson and Rutgers-Camden. 
•    Wednesday's 10-run fifth was the Beavers' highest scoring inning since March 25, 2019, when it put up 11 runs in the fifth inning of a 13-3 victory over Plymouth State. 
•    The Green and White is now 6-0 this season when allowing four runs or fewer.
•    The Beavers are now 4-1 on the year versus nationally-ranked foes.