NEW LONDON, Conn. (April 25, 2026) -- No. 3-ranked Salve Regina University baseball swept a doubleheader from the United States Coast Guard Academy, 5-2 and 5-0, at Nelson W. Nitchman Field in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) action on Saturday afternoon. Sophomore
Nolan Romanowski (Wynantskill, N.Y.) and junior
Luis Ortiz Ramirez (Boston, Mass.) pitched their career-best with complete-game efforts in each respective outing.
Romanowski, in his 10th start of the season, improved to 10-0 with his first career complete game. He had gone nine innings once before, but that was in first-inning relief during the 2025 NCAA Championships Harrisburg Regional against the hosts when he got all 27 outs out of the bullpen. Today, he got 11 flyouts, 10 groundouts, and six strikeouts while tossing 91 pitches across his nine frames.
Carson Cho (Haymarket, Va.) accounted for both runs batted in against the Seahawk right hander, delivering a double in the third for the game's first run and then a solo home run in the eighth that tied the score, 2-2.
Salve Regina (29-4, 11-2 NEWMAC) scratched their first two runs in the fifth when
Jake Harring (Portsmouth, N.H.) scored on a wild pitch and
Shea Donovan (Milton, Mass.) drove in
James Anastasopoulos (Sherborn, Mass.). The Seahawks scored three times in their final at bat with Anastasopoulos doubling in the go-ahead run after
Grady Schopps (Fairfield, Conn.) had a one-out single.
Danny Rogers (New Canaan, Conn.), batting in the leadoff spot for the first time this season, followed the Anastasopoulos double with a two-run blast over the fence in right field.
Shane Williams (Georgetown, Mass.), the league's leader in runs scored (54), runs batted in (55), home runs (13), and slugging percentage (.741), staked Ortiz Ramirez with a two-run lead in the top of the first of Game Two with a two-run homer.
It was all the Seahawks would need as Ortiz Ramirez shutout the Bears (13-16, 6-8 NEWMAC) while scattering five singles. The junior righty improved to 7-0 while also benefiting from three double plays turned by the Seahawk infield.
Coast Guard committed four errors in the nightcap.
Dylan Cimini (Stonington, Conn.) singled in a run in the third and Harring drove in Williams with the final run in the fourth with a fielder's choice grounder.
The Seahawks open a two-game lead in the NEWMAC standings with three league games remaining, all on the road -- Tuesday against MIT at Stein Diamond on the Brandeis University campus (7 p.m.), and a Saturday doubleheader against Emerson College also on the Judges' home field.