NEWPORT, R.I. (April 3, 2026) -- #4 Salve Regina University baseball cut through the fog in Newport, Rhode Island, on Good Friday and turned in an 11-3 victory over Johnson & Wales University in non-league action at Reynolds Field.

Senior catcher Shea Donovan (Milton, Mass.) accounted for four runs batted in with a third-inning single, a two-run single in the sixth, and a sacrifice fly in the eighth. Donovan was one of five Seahawks with multiple hits on the day -- four for sophomore center fielder Danny Rogers (New Canaan, Conn.), three from sophomore infielder Jake Harring (Portsmouth, N.H.), and two each for Donovan, fellow senior Nate Ruehs (Plymouth, Mass.), and freshman James Anastasopoulos (Sherborn, Mass.). The latter crushed his first collegiate home run while senior Shane Williams (Georgetown, Mass.) drilled his team-leading fifth long ball of the season to raise his team-leading RBI total to 29 through 17 games for the Seahawks (15-2).

The Wildcats (6-13) took the early lead in the first when Yedan Diaz (Worcester, Mass.) had a one-out single to right and came around to score after Seahawk starter James Keating (Norwood, N.J.) plunked three of the next five batters he faced. Keating struck out the other two. In the bottom of the first, freshman Ryan Barrington (Clifton Park, N.Y.) started on the bump for the Wildcats and fanned the first three Seahawks.

Senior Jack Obert (Plymouth, Mass.) batted with the bases loaded in the fifth and nobody out and produced a two-run single for a 3-1 lead. Isaac Cabral (Lincoln, R.I.) got a pair of strikeouts along with a fielder's choice out a home to escape further damage.

Anastasopoulos homered with one out in the Seahawk fifth to cut the deficit to 3-2.

Salve Regina scored five runs in the sixth to take over the lead. Evan O'Rourke (Arlington, Mass.) led off with a double down the left field line and moved to third on a Rogers' single. Ruehs drove in the first run of the inning with a single to center field and promptly stole second before coming home behind Ruehs on a two-run single by Nick Russo (Cedar Grove, N.J.). Later, Donovan's two-run single plated Anastasopoulos and Chase Kilareski (Bethlehem, Pa.).

Sophomore shortstop Grady Schopps (Fairfield, Conn.) had an RBI single in the seventh before the Seahawks crossed home three more times in the eighth. Harring led off the final Seahawks' at bat with a triple and scored on Donovan's sac fly to center. Williams followed with a solo homer. Ruehs added his second RBI of the game with a single to center to score Rogers.

Ethan Santerre (Bristol, R.I.), who retired nine of the 11 Wildcats he faced, earned his first collegiate victory (W, 1-0).