WASHINGTON D.C. - #2/#3 Salve Regina University baseball triumphed over Ithaca College in game three of the Matt Kurkjian ALS Awareness Invitational as the Seahawks finished with a 14-7 decision in the neutral matchup on Sunday afternoon at Nationals Youth Baseball Academy in Washington D.C.
Salve Regina (2-0, 0-0 NEWMAC) wins both its games in the Matt Kurkjian ALS Awareness Invitational by a combined score of 25-9.
INSIDE THE MATCHUP
Finals: Salve Regina 14, Ithaca 7
Records: Salve Regina (2-0, 0-0 NEWMAC), Ithaca (1-1, 0-0 Liberty)
All-Time Series: Today was the first-ever meeting between the two schools in baseball. Ithaca and Salve Regina had last met on the softball diamond in 2018 in Kissimmee, Florida. The Bombers and Seahawks have met in men's soccer match ups three times and once each in men's basketball and men's lacrosse. Today was the first time Salve Regina has won against Ithaca in seven meetings across five sports.
SUMMARY
- B1 - Brandon Grover led off with a triple to right field and scored on Evan O'Rourke's double to left center. Christian Homa walked and Hunter Yaworski singled to load the bases. O'Rourke came home on Wil McCarthy's sacrifice fly to center field. | SEAHAWKS 2, BOMBERS 0
- B2 - Nate Ruehs led off and was hit by a pitch (the first of two plunks he received in the inning) before Brandon Grover walked. The two Seahawks scored on Christian Homa's double down the left field line. Hunter Yaworski followed with a two-run homer to right center. Wil McCarthy walked and advanced to second on the first offering from the new Bomber pitcher, a wild pitch. Brady Smolinski delivered McCarthy with a single up the middle. Tyler Petrosino walked, Ruehs and Grover were hit by pitches, the latter giving an RBI to the Seahawk center fielder as Smolinski crossed the plate. | SEAHAWKS 8, BOMBERS 0
- B3 - Christian Homa and Hunter Yaworski both singled to center field. Wil McCarthy loaded the bases with a bunt single. Danny Rogers plated Homa with a sacrifice fly to center. Brady Smolinski doubled to left field for an RBI and Nate Ruehs added the 11th run of the game on a sacrifice fly. | SEAHAWKS 11, BOMBERS 0
- T4 - Ethan McDonough led off with a home run to right center. Camden Laney laced a single to center field. Brayden Clark struck out Logan Scully before Andrew McDermott singled and Ryan Laubscher's ground out moved the runners to second and third. Riley Brawdy singled through the right side to produce the Bombers' second run. | SEAHAWKS 11, BOMBERS 2
- B4 - After reaching on an error, Evan O'Rourke stole second and came home after Hunter Yaworski's single was misplayed in left center. | SEAHAWKS 12, BOMBERS 2
- T6 - Ethan McDonough blasted his second lead off home run of the game, this one to left field. Joe DeRienzo inherited a bases-loaded, one-out situation and escaped with only one run added after a pair of ground outs to Tyler Petrosino and Wil McCarthy, respectively, at the corners. | SEAHAWKS 12, BOMBERS 4
- B6 - Seahawks score twice to get back to a double-digit lead. Evan O'Rourke walked and stole second. Christian Homa walked and O'Rourke stole third. O'Rourke slid safely across the plate on Wil McCarthy's shallow sacrifice fly. Danny Rogers and Eliot Hamilton were both hit by pitches and Tyler Petrosino walked with the bases loaded to plate Homa. | SEAHAWKS 14, BOMBERS 4
- T7 - Collin Feeney had a one-out single back to the mound and stole second. Ethan McDonough was hit by a pitch but erased on a fielder's choice grounder to Petrosino at first. A wild pitch brought in Feeney from third before Logan Scully's double down the left field line gave the Bombers their sixth run. | SEAHAWKS 14, BOMBERS 6
- T8 - Luis Ortiz walked the first two Bombers he faced before pinch-hitter Zack Sperger had an RBI single up the middle. | SEAHAWKS 14, BOMBERS 7
NOTEWORTHY
NEXT UP
Salve Regina welcomes the University of Southern Maine to the campus of the University of Rhode Island for a three-game series at Bill Beck Field on Friday-Saturday (Feb. 28 - Mar. 1) with live streams on FloCollege.
