Mahwah, NJ: Sophmore Travis Zilg propelled Ramapo past the Pioneers of WIlliam Paterson pitching a complete game, one hit shutout at Jeff Mauind FIeld in a New Jersey Athletic Conference baseball match-up. With the 5-0 victory the Roadrunners earned the series sweep and improve to 18-6 overall and 4-4 in the conference. The Pioneers fall to 16-9-1 overall, 5-3 in the conference.

Zilg struck out five and walked only one today as he improved to 4-2 overall on the year. He went the complete nine innings and gave up only one hit for the 5-0 shut out.

With one out in the bottom of the second inning, Lee Rozins reached on an infield error with bases loaded putting Ramapo on the scoreboard to take a 1-0 edge. It was Peter Dacenko who crossed home plate after driving a single to left earlier in the inning to reach first base. Dacenko moved to third on back-to-back singles from Nick DiGirolamo and Pat Driscoll respectively. Dacenko scored what turned out to be the game winning run.

Ramapo tacked on three more runs in the fourth inning after DiGirolamo, Rozins, and Kevin Knox each came home on three hits scattered throughout the inning. A final insurance run was scored in the seventh when two Pioneer errors allowed Dan Moreno to reach home for a 5-0 Ramapo lead.

After hitting the lead off batter in the eighth inning, Zilg went on to force six straight outs, including three of his game total five strike outs.

Knox went 2-5 with one run and one RBI in the lead off position while DiGirolamo, batting seventh, scored a run of his own. DiGirolamo hit 2-4 on the day. Christian Spurr went 1-4 with one RBI and Moreno and Rozins added a run each.

Jack Montanile posted the loan hit for the Pioneers while JJ Moran gets the loss on the mound pitching four innings, striking out four, and giving up seven hits.

The Roadrunners return to action tomorrow when they travel to NJCU for a conference doubleheader match-up at 11:30am. William Paterson travels to the College of NJ, first pitch set for 11:30am.