Greg MatturaRUTHERFORD − Jason Rosado came to the plate in the bottom of the seventh inning with no out and two runners on, and triggered a bench-clearing celebration.
Rosado’s single to left-center field lifted St. Mary to a 4-3 victory over Rutgers Prep in Saturday’s North Non-Public B baseball championship at Tamblyn Field.
Top-seeded St. Mary (20-9) erased a 3-1 deficit by scoring two runs in the fifth. Jacob Herrera’s two-out, two-run single to center tied it, 3-3.
St. Mary had taken a 1-0 lead in the fourth. Starting pitcher Blayze Conte led off with a single up the middle and later scored on Kyle Watson’s infield single.
Xavier Arana pitched two scoreless innings in relief to earn the win. Arana, the No. 9 hitter, also scored the winning run after leading off the seventh by being hit by a pitch.
Rutgers Prep (14-15) scored all three runs in the fifth for the 3-1 lead. Cody Rullo had a two-run double to left-center and Ethan Nepomuceno had a run-scoring double to right.
