UNION, N.J. (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | Kean University got a complete-game shutout performance as the Cougars swept a two-day New Jersey Athletic Conference home-and-home series with a 5-0 result on April 15 at Jim Hynes Stadium.
 
Kean (17-11, 6-2 NJAC), 9-5 winners over NJCU (13-11, 0-6 NJAC) in the first game of the series scored single runs in five consecutive innings from the third through seventh. The Cougars had a slim 7-5 edge in hits.
 
Kean's Richie Ferguson tossed a 91-pitch complete-game victory (4-3), scattering five singles while striking out three and walking one.
 
Freshman left-handed pitcher Kyle Kafer (Bordentown, N.J./Bordentown) dropped to 2-2 on the season. In 7.0 innings, he allowed four earned runs on seven hits. He didn't walk or strikeout a batter over 89 pitches. Sophomore lefty Mike Ramirez (Old Bridge, N.J./Saint Joseph-Metuchen) needed six pitches to throw a 1-2-3 eighth inning.
 
Center fielder Shayne Fontana scored three times, batting 2-for-2 with a triple. Sophomore first baseman Matt Krupa (Mahwah, N.J./Mahwah) was 2-for-4 with a run scored. Junior left fielder Nick Ruscingno (Teaneck, N.J./Teaneck) was the lone NJCU player with multiple hits, batting 2-for-3. He has 98 career hits.
 
Key Moments
Kean got the only run it needed in the third as Fontana was hit by a pitch, stayed alive on a blown caught stealing, and scored on a groundout. In the fourth, senior second baseman Ryan Reitmeyer (Lacey Township, N.J./Lacey Township) made it 2-0 with a sac fly foul ball down the left field line after senior third baseman Andy Lopez (Jackson, N.J./Jackson Memorial) and Krupa led off with singles.
 
NJCU's best chance to score came in the fifth when Ruscingno and junior second baseman Zach Buchholz (Colonia, N.J./John F. Kennedy Memorial-Iselin) led off with singles before a double play took the Knights out of the inning.
 
Fontana generated a run in the fifth when he led off with a single, stole second and scored on a wild pitch. A suicide squeeze play in the sixth scored Krupa after he singled with one out. Fontana led off the seventh with a triple and scored on a dropped infield fly.
 
#NextKnightTime:
On Saturday, April 16 at 11:30 a.m. NJCU hosts No. 17/22 ranked The College of New Jersey in an NJAC doubleheader at the Thomas M. Gerrity Athletic Complex. Follow the live broadcast (https://www.youtube.com/user/NJCUGothicKnights/Live) and live stats (http://www.sidearmstats.com/NJCU/baseball/).