GORHAM, Maine (April 23, 2026) -- No. 3-ranked Salve Regina University baseball senior right fielder Shane Williams (Georgetown, Mass.) slugged his 12th home run of the season to tie the score at 3-3 in the top of the fifth inning at Ed Flaherty Field, but the No. 28-ranked University of Southern Maine scored five unanswered runs to finish with an 8-3 victory in the non-league meeting on Thursday afternoon.

Kyle Douin (Augusta, Maine) staked the host Huskies (23-7) to a 2-0 lead with a first-inning home run off Seahawk starter Carrick Ryan (Durham, N.C.). The Seahawks (27-4) got the two runs back in the top of the second after an Elliot Hamilton (Glastonbury, Conn.) double put runners at second and third and was followed by RBI singles from Dylan Cimini (Stonington, Conn.) and Grady Schopps (Fairfield, Conn.).

Douin led off the Husky third with a double down the right field line and moved to third base on a ground out to Jake Harring (Portsmouth, N.H.) at second base before coming home on a Caleb Vacchiano (Cornish, Maine) fielder's choice grounder.

After Williams' one-out homer knotted the game in the fifth, Salve Regina added runners at first and second with a Brady Smolinski (North Grafton, Mass.) walk and a Danny Rogers (New Canaan, Conn.) single. Freshman Hayden Strout (Charleston, Maine) got an inning-ending double-play grounder.

Two of the three Seahawk pitchers from Maine -- freshman Liam Scholl (Brunswick, Maine) and senior Connor Toriello (North Berwick, Maine) -- worked the middle innings for Salve Regina. Douin's single led off the fifth inning before the Huskies loaded the bases with none out. Scholl got the first out on a bouncer back to the mound and going to Smolinski at the plate to cut down Douin. Drew Scialdone's (Amesbury, Mass.) single up the middle was smothered by Schopps, who momentarily saved a run, before junior Mike Anquillare (North Haven, Conn.) lifted a sacrifice fly to Rogers in center.

Salve Regina loaded the bases without a base hit in the sixth, but Strout got the final out on a grounder to second.

The Huskies added unearned runs in the eighth while retiring the Seahawks in the ninth after a leadoff single from senior Evan O'Rourke (Arlington, Mass.). Rogers, Hamilton, and Schopps each finished with a pair of base hits for Salve Regina while Smolinski drew three bases on balls.

Salve Regina leads the all-time series, 12-4, which includes a 21-11 win earlier this season in Auburndale, Florida (March 16, 2026). The Seahawks return to NEWMAC competition at Coast Guard on Saturday, April 25, with a noon first pitch of the doubleheader on FloCollege.