Dan Stuhlemmer made a big contribution to the Scarlet Raptors in his first season of collegiate baseball. The big first baseman appeared in 24 games, making 14 starts, and posted a .291 batting average with four runs, six RBIs, two doubles and a triple. He was successful in his only stolen base attempt and he compiled a .364 slugging percentage. Defensively, Stuhlemmer led the Raptors with 14 double plays, a mark that tied for 20th in the New Jersey Athletic Conference, and finished third on the team with 124 putouts. He also had 10 assists and a .985 fielding percentage.

        Stuhlemmer went 1-for-3 while starting his first collegiate game, a 3-2 victory over Waynesburg College Feb. 24. He also stole his lone base of the season and handled six defensive chances flawlessly, collecting five putouts and one assist.

        Stuhlemmer made his first collegiate RBI a memorable one. On March 9, he lined a two-out RBI single to right field in the bottom of the ninth inning to lift Rutgers-Camden over Wabash College, 5-4, in the opening game of the Scarlet Raptors’ spring trip to Arizona.

        That game was just the beginning of a big Arizona trip for Stuhlemmer. He capped his Arizona trip with a huge doubleheader against Roger Williams College (March 16), going 2-for-3 in each game, including a double, a walk and three RBIs in the nightcap. He also collected 14 putouts and four assists on the day. In eight games out in Arizona, Stuhlemmer went 7-for-12 (.583) with four RBIs. He also had 24 putouts and five assists without making an error.

        Stuhlemmer collected a pair of two-hit games later in the season against NJAC opponents. He went 2-for-4 with one RBI in the nightcap of an April 7 doubleheader at Montclair State University, and he was 2-for-4 (a double and a triple) with one run and one RBI in the second game against New Jersey City University April 21. In that game against the Gothic Knights, he also took part in three double plays, one shy of the program’s single-game record.

        Defensively, Stuhlemmer had his biggest games against The College of New Jersey. He had 11 putouts against the Lions on April 20 and two days later recorded 11 putouts and one assist against TCNJ.

        Stuhlemmer ended his season with career-highs of two runs and two walks in the nightcap of a doubleheader against NJAC rival Kean University April 29. Kean went on to win the Division III national championship.

        A four-year baseball letterman at Camden Catholic High School for Head Coach Bob Moffett, Stuhlemmer captured All-Olympic Conference National Division First Team honors as a senior for the Irish. He added All-Non-Public First Team recognition from the Courier-Postnewspaper and was named to the Philadelphia Inquirer’s All-South Jersey First Team after hitting .519 with seven home runs and 40 RBIs.

        Stuhlemmer also was named to the Olympic Conference National Division Second Team as a junior in 2005.

        A Finance major at Rutgers-Camden who plans to attend graduate school and possibly law school, Dan is the son of Connie and Jim Stuhlemmer of Collingswood.