CENTER VALLEY, Pa. (May 17, 2026 -- NCAA Division III DeSales Regional) - Nationally fourth-ranked Salve Regina University baseball scored a 13-8 win over Ramapo College at Weiland Park in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, on Sunday afternoon to capture their third straight NCAA Division III Regional Championship. The Seahawks (39-6) rallied from down four with runs in five consecutive innings, finally pushing ahead with a five-run seventh, and will now host ninth-ranked Endicott College in next weekend's (Friday-Saturday, May 22-23) NCAA Super Regional. The Gulls clinched the Montclair (N.J.) Regional with a 19-12 victory over Whitworth this afternoon.
Senior
Connor Toriello (North Berwick, Maine) tossed 50 pitches over the final three and one-third scoreless innings to pick up his first win of the season (W, 1-0). Classmate
Shane Williams (Georgetown, Mass.), who was a double shy of the cycle, went 3-for-5 while driving in five runs -- two with a fifth-inning opposite field home run, one with a sixth-inning single through the right side, and two more on a seventh-inning triple to right center.
Senior
Evan O'Rourke (Arlington, Mass.) and sophomore
Grady Schopps (Fairfield, Conn.) both drove in three runs apiece, each with a pair of hits.
Jake Harring (Portsmouth, N.H.) led all players with four base hits and he contributed two RBI. The 20 total hits for Salve Regina matched its season-high which came against Emerson College on May 2 in the 14-innings of Game One of that doubleheader.
Ramapo (31-14), which reached the championship round after knocking off Marymount (Va.) and the host DeSales in elimination games on Saturday, took a 1-0 lead in the second inning off starter
Sean Mulligan (Verona, N.J.). Mulligan got two outs in the top of the third but ran into trouble when he plunked a pair of Roadrunners.
Dominic Carollo (West Warwick, R.I.) helped escape that jam by getting a swinging strikeout on four pitches.
Dylan Cimini (Stonington, Conn.) led off the Seahawk fourth with a double down the left field line and tagged up to third on a fly out. Harring's single to left tied the score at 1-1.
In the Roadrunner fifth,
Zach Novakowski (Hillsdale, N.J.) beat out an infield single and
Nick Pellegrino (Bridgewater, N.J.) doubled him to third.
Julian Schultz (Livingston, N.J.) drove in the go-ahead pair with a double to right field. Schultz stole third and came home on an error for a 4-1 lead.
Eric Knapp (Somerville, N.J.) walked and
Jack Tallent (South Amboy, N.J.) greeted new Seahawk reliever
James Keating (Norwood, N.J.) with a single to right field. After a
Dan Maglio (Park Ridge, N.J.) sacrifice bunt, handled by Keating to Harring covering first,
Brandon Tauber (East Meadow, N.J.) singled up the middle for a 5-1 advantage.
Keating caught Tallent at home plate on another Roadrunner bunt attempt with
Brady Smolinski (North Grafton, Mass.) applying the tag. Salve Regina thwarted further damage with another fielder's choice grounder up the middle, Schopps to Harring covering second.
The Seahawks chipped away with three in the fifth.
James Anastasopoulos (Sherborn, Mass.) reached on an error and got to third base after a double by
Danny Rogers (New Canaan, Conn.). O'Rourke hit a sac fly to center field before Williams left the year (and hit the scoreboard) on the first pitch from starter
Thomas Schlaline (Sayreville, N.J.).
Ramapo ramped the lead back to four, 8-4, with a three-run sixth. Pellegrino's single and a pair of walks loaded the bases with two outs. Maglio singled up the middle on a 1-1 pitch from Keating to plate two. Tauber's tapped a single to left field off Toriello to score Tallent from second. Toriello got the final out on a swinging strike three.
Harring and
Elliot Hamilton (Glastonbury, Conn.) opened the Seahawk sixth with back-to-back singles and moved up on a wild pitch. Schopps' sac fly preceded Anastasopoulos getting hit by a pitch. O'Rourke and Williams both delivered clutch two-out, run-scoring singles, the latter coming off new reliever
John Hacker (Saddle Brook, N.J.).
Smolinski led off the Seahawk seventh with a double to right center and advanced to third on a failed pickoff attempt. Harring's single to second base tied the score at 8-8.
Hamilton bunted Harring over to second and Schopps singled up the middle for the first Seahawk lead. Anastasopoulos beat out a bunt single and Rogers loaded the bases with a single through the right side. O'Rourke bumped the lead to 10-8 with a sacrifice fly. Williams tripled to right center to bring Anastasopoulos and Rogers home. Schopps added a two-out RBI double in the eighth to score Harring who had singled and stole a couple of bags.
In the top of the ninth, Toriello picked up his third K before getting the final out on a comebacker to the mound and the Seahawks started celebrating.
