Box Score

CAMDEN, N.J. (Oct. 1, 2016) – After playing a run of nationally-ranked opponents recently, the Rutgers University-Camden women's soccer team returned home here Saturday to face a struggling Ramapo College team. Although the result wasn't as convincing as the Scarlet Raptors would have liked, they outlasted the Roadrunners, 3-1, in a New Jersey Athletic Conference game.
 
Rutgers-Camden evened its record at 4-4-2 overall and 2-2 in the NJAC after a three-game losing streak against a trio of nationally-ranked teams.
 
The Roadrunners, meanwhile, fell to 1-7-1 overall and 0-4 in the NJAC with their fifth straight loss, despite holding advantages of 18-11 in shots and 6-5 in corner kicks.
 
Rutgers-Camden leads the all-time series, 9-7-2.

Homecoming week
 
Rutgers-Camden took the lead for good with a pair of first-half goals as freshman midfielder Kacie Walton (Columbus, NJ/Northern Burlington) picked up her first collegiate points with a goal and an assist. Only 7:44 into the game, Walton's corner kick into the box was finished on a header by junior midfielder Aubrey Andrews (Haddon Heights, NJ/Haddon Heights) for her second goal of the season. The Scarlet Raptors struck again at 22:50 after a run down the right side by senior forward Catherine Fiore (Collingswood, NJ/Paul VI). She sent a cross to the far post, where Walton slid in her first collegiate goal. It was the team-leading third assist for Fiore, and hiked her career point total to 50.
 
Ramapo created several dangerous opportunities in the second half and finally cashed in at 58:23 when junior forward Amber Hermanns (Township of Washington, NJ/Westwood) scored at the left post, assisted by freshman midfielder Liliann Vizcaino (Lodi, NJ/Lodi). The Roadrunners nearly tied the game less than one minute later when sophomore back Skyler Rybacki (Ramsey, NJ/Ramsey) sent a shot off the crossbar.
 
Rutgers-Camden nearly added an insurance goal in the 77th minute, but Fiore was denied on a backsave at the goal line. Only 53 seconds later, however, that insurance tally came when junior midfielder Kaitlyn Ennis (Columbus, NJ/Northern Burlington) scored off a feed from freshman back Maddie Blanda (Haddon Heights, NJ/Haddon Heights). Blanda touched the ball to Ennis in the box for a short-range goal, her first at Rutgers-Camden since transferring to the school from Wesley College. It also was the first career assist for Blanda.
 
Raptor junior keeper Katie Gurba (Westampton, NJ/Holy Cross) made four saves in working the majority of the game, while sophomore Liz DiCamillo (Blackwood, NJ/Triton Regional) didn't need to make a save while combining on the shutout. For Ramapo, freshman keeper Elizabeth Harvell (Hamilton, NJ/Steinert) had three saves and was aided by one backsave.
 
Rutgers-Camden will play a 4 p.m. non-conference game Wednesday at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. The Engineers, who received 18 votes toward the D3soccer.com Top 25 poll last week, will bring an 8-2 record into that game, including a 1-0 loss to the nation's top-ranked team, William Smith College, on Saturday.