CAMDEN, N.J. (March 29, 2016) – There's an old baseball adage that good pitching beats good hitting, and senior Jayson Yano (Foothill Ranch, CA/El Toro) and his Stevens Institute of Technology teammates proved that here Tuesday against nationally-ranked Rutgers University-Camden.

Yano hurled five no-hit innings and combined with senior Bret Viola (Carmel, NY/Carmel) on a three-hit shutout as the Ducks defeated the Scarlet Raptors, 4-0, to snap Rutgers-Camden's five-game winning streak.

Rutgers-Camden, ranked No. 8 in the ABCA Division III Coaches' Poll and No. 10 in the D3baseball.com Top 25, falls to 10-3 with its first loss since a 4-2 defeat against Wheaton (Mass.) College in Florida on March 16.

Stevens improves to 11-8 with its fourth straight win as it handed the Raptors their first shutout loss since they dropped a doubleheader in Florida on March 20, 2015 against Trinity (Conn.) College, 2-0 and 4-0. Rutgers-Camden, which entered the game with a .353 team batting average while averaging 10.8 runs per game, had only been limited to one run on two occasions since that doubleheader defeat – the most recent came in a 3-1 loss to Stevens and Yano on April 19, 2015.

Yano struck out the side in the first inning and allowed only three walks during his five-inning stint as he raised his record to 2-1. The only other runners to reach base came on a pair of infield errors. He finished with five strikeouts.

Viola worked the final four innings to earn his first save, allowing three hits, one walk and two hit batsmen, while striking out two. Raptor senior third baseman Joe Sigismondi (Blackwood, NJ/Highland Regional) was the hit batsman both times as he raised his career HBP total to 40, seven shy of the program record set by Tom Cusano (1991-94).

Rutgers-Camden finally broke up the Ducks' combination no-hit bid with two outs in the sixth inning when freshman shortstop Chris Jones (Sewell, NJ/Bishop Eustace Prep) singled up the middle. Jones also had an eighth-inning single as he finished the day 2-for-4. The only other Raptor hit was a single by junior designated hitter Andujar Cedeno (Bronx, NY/Escuela Nueva Esperanza, DR) in the seventh inning.

Stevens scored the only runs it needed in a two-run second inning against Raptor starter Andrew Gottstein (Bloomsburg, PA/Bloomsburg), the first of five Rutgers-Camden pitchers. Gottstein (2-1) allowed four hits, two walks and three runs, two of them unearned, while fanning one.

A one-out walk to junior rightfielder Garrett Wells (Manhattan Beach, CA/Mira Costa) started the Ducks' second-inning rally. Stevens loaded the bases with back-to-back singles by freshman second baseman Carlos Leon (Boca Raton, FL/Boca Raton Community) and junior leftfielder Michael Mule' (Boca Raton, FL/West Boca Raton) before freshman shortstop Matthew Pasko (Ringoes, NJ/Hunterdon Central) delivered a sacrifice fly to right, scoring Wells and moving Leon to third. On an attempted pickoff at third, Gottstein committed an errant throw, allowing Leon to score.

A double by senior centerfielder Jonathan Toro (Sanford, FL/Bishop Moore Catholic) led to another Stevens run in the third inning. He scored on a two-out error. The Ducks added their final run in the eighth when Pasko was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.

Wells and Mule' each went 2-for-3 for Stevens Institute of Technology, which hosts Utica College in a doubleheader Wednesday, beginning at 12 p.m.

Rutgers-Camden returns to action Wednesday with a 3:30 p.m. home game against Fairleigh Dickinson University-Florham.