NEWPORT, R.I. (May 29, 2025) - Salve Regina University graduate student Brayden Clark (Beverly, Mass.) adds to his 2025 accolades with a selection to the ABCA/Rawlings All-America First Team, while freshman Nolan Romanowski (Wynantskill, N.Y.) earns Fourth Team honors.
Clark finished his Seahawk career with the most wins in program history (32) along with breaking his own single-season victory mark (11-2 in 2025). Salve Regina (36-9) produced a program-high 20-game win streak during which Clark went 6-0 including a complete-game shutout with a career-high 15 Ks in the final regular-season weekend against WPI where the Seahawks clinched the top seed in the NEWMAC for the second straight year.
With losses to MIT and Coast Guard in back-to-back starts in late March and early April, Clark avenged one of those in the NEWMAC postseason, pitching the Seahawks into the championship round with seven innings, a dozen strikeouts, and just one earned run, during a 6-1 final against the Bears at Reynolds Field.
In an NCAA regional outing against Keene State, Clark pitched eight shutout innings while striking out six Owls in a 5-0 Seahawk victory. Recently, Clark had been named the Region I Pitcher of the Year by both D3baseball.com and the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA).
In the second game of the Seahawks' NCAA regional against host Penn State Harrisburg, Romanowski came in relief in the top of the first with no outs and Salve Regina already facing a 3-0 deficit, and all the Seahawk first-year righty did was record all 27 outs on the mound while his teammates rallied for a 7-4 victory at Nittany Field. Romanowski had a 5-1 record in 18 appearances with 34 strikeouts in 47.0 innings and a microscopic 0.57 earned run average. He picked up his first two career wins in back-to-back relief outings -- three scoreless innings at Clark University on April 15 and two days later with two and two-thirds frames of no earned runs against Rhode Island College.
Before his nine innings of work in the regional, Romanowski's longest outing had been 4.0 frames on two occasions -- wins against Anna Maria on April 24 and at WPI on May 2.
Clark and Romanowski join Ryan Holleran (2002), Eric Cirella (2004, 2005), Alex Perry (2015), Dominic Perachi (2022), Christian Homa (2023), Sean Mulligan and Matt D'Amato (both in 2024) as members of the ABCA/Rawlings All-America club from Salve Regina.
17 players from this year's All-America teams are participating in the 2025 NCAA Div. III World Series which begins Friday, May 30 in Eastlake, Ohio.
ABCA/Rawlings All-Region First Team selections, which were announced Tuesday, were nominated for All-America honors. In all divisions, the ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove Teams will be announced on Wednesday, June 18. The ABCA/Rawlings National Pitchers and Position Players of the Year for all divisions will be announced on Thursday, June 19.
The ABCA All-America team was first recognized in 1949 and now includes nine divisions: NCAA Divisions I, II and III, NAIA, NJCAA Divisions I, II and III, Pacific Association Division, and high school. ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove teams were first recognized in 2007.
The Chair of the ABCA NCAA Div. III All-America & Coach of the Year Committee is Paul Hesse of the University of Mount Union. Also on the committee are Brian Casey (U.S. Coast Guard Academy), Pete Egbert (Misericordia University), Dan Gomez (Western New England University), Ray Hedrick (Randolph-Macon College), Luke Johnson (North Park University), Scott Laverty (Chapman University), Yogi Lutz (Alvernia University), Nick Pontari (Russell Sage College), and Kevin Tomasiewicz (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh).
The ABCA, founded in 1945, is the primary professional organization for baseball coaches at the amateur level. Its over 13,000 members represent all 50 states and 25 countries. Since its initial meeting of 27 college baseball coaches in June 1945, Association membership has broadened to include eight divisions: NCAA Division I, II and III, NAIA, NJCAA, Pacific Association Division, High School and Youth.
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