WASHINGTON - For the second time in eight days (with an historic blizzard in between), #5/#9 Salve Regina University baseball stymied Stevens Institute of Technology on a ball field in our nation's capital. While the setting moved to Nationals Youth Baseball Academy just a short distance from Catholic University's Talbot Field, the nationally-ranked Seahawks enjoyed a 12-1 decision as starting pitcher Nolan Romanowski (Wynantskill, N.Y.) hurled eight innings of two-hit ball allowing just one run while striking out six Ducks to improve to 2-0 on the young season.

Salve Regina got on the board in the top of the first inning after Danny Rogers (New Canaan, Conn.) singled to center field to plate Jake Harring (Portsmouth, N.H.), Shane Williams (Georgetown, Mass.) hit a sacrifice fly to score Shea Donovan (Milton, Mass.), and Stevens committed an error, scoring one run.

Salve Regina added to its early lead in the top of the second inning after Donovan tripled in Harring and then came home on Elliot Hamilton's (Glastonbury, Conn.) sacrifice fly.

Rob Hughes (Wayne, N.J.) opened the game for Stevens Ducks. The pitcher allowed two hits and five runs (four earned) over one and one-third innings, striking out two and walking four.

In the later innings, Dylan Cimini (Stonington, Conn.) had an RBI fielder's choice grounder in the sixth and eventually scored on Harring's single to center. Grady Schopps (Faifield, Conn.) and James Anastasopoulos (Sherborn, MAss.), the left side of the Seahawks' infield, had back-to-back RBI in the seventh when the former walked with the bases loaded and the latter singled to right field.

Williams and Hamilton were tough to handle back-to-back in the lineup, as each drove in two runs for Salve Regina. Harring, Donovan, and Hamilton each collected two hits for Salve Regina. Donovan led Salve Regina with three walks. Overall, the team had a strong eye at the plate, amassing 14 walks for the game. Salve Regina turned one double play in the game.

INSIDE THE MATCHUP
Finals: Salve Regina 12, Stevens 1
Records: Salve Regina (3-1, 0-0 NEWMAC), Stevens (4-4, 0-0 MAC)
All-Time Series: With "back-to-back" wins against the Ducks, the Seahawks lead the all-time series, 3-0. In first ever meeting over seven years ago (Feb. 22, 2019), Colton Eremian slugged a two-run homer and added a bases-loaded walk for three runs batted in to back the combined four-hit pitching efforts of starter Patrick Maybach and reliever Will Ginsberg in Salve Regina's 7-1 victory over Stevens at Dobbelaar Field. Maybach worked the first six innings and struck out 10 Ducks, including an immaculate inning (bottom of the second) where he threw nine pitches for nine strikes to get all three outs. Ginsberg pitched three scoreless frames and seven of his nine outs came via the K.