SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (April 6, 2026) -- No. 4-ranked Salve Regina University baseball won its fifth straight to improve to 18-2 on the season with today's 6-3 final at Western New England University in non-league action at Trelease Park in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Monday afternoon. Since an elimination game in the 2019 Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) playoffs (won 3-2 by the Seahawks), Salve Regina is unbeaten against Western New England over the last 13 meetings (11-0-2), but the Golden Bears still lead the all-time series, 30-17-2.

Seahawk head coach Eric Cirella '05 reaches another milestone with today's victory (#350). He became the school's all-time winningest head coach last year after passing his dad's (Steve Cirella) career mark of 318 wins. The younger Cirella now has an all-time winning percentage of .705 (350-145-6).

Senior righty Sean Mulligan (Verona, N.J.) toed the rubber for his second start of 2026 and passed the ball to freshman lefty Carrick Ryan (Durham, N.C.) after four innings of work. The younger Seahawk worked the final five frames and did not allow a run to the Golden Bears.

Salve Regina scored in the top of the first on an Evan O'Rourke (Arlington, Mass.) single to left field that delivered Jake Harring (Portsmouth, N.H.). After the Golden Bears took a 2-1 lead into the top of the second, the visitors responded with two runs on RBI singles from Harring and Shane Williams (Georgetown, Mass.), the former scoring James Anastasopoulos (Sherborn, Mass.) while Harring crossed the plate on the latter.

Elliot Hamilton's (Glastonbury, Conn.) sacrifice fly in the third plated the reigning NEWMAC Athlete of the Week, center fielder Danny Rogers (New Canaan, Conn.), for a 4-2 Seahawk advantage.

In the Seahawk seventh inning, Rogers and Dylan Cimini (Stonington, Conn.) drove in runs, the latter on an opposite-field single, to complete the scoring.

Williams, Rogers, and Grady Schopps (Fairfield, Conn.) each had multi-hit games for the Seahawks in the 10-hit attack. The Golden Bears (10-12) outhit Salve Regina, 11-to-10, and were led by Ryan Montini (four hits), Tyler Kornacki (three hits), and Tyler Waterbury (two hits).