WALTHAM, Mass. (May 2, 2026) -- Senior first baseman
Elliot Hamilton (Glastonbury, Conn.) went 4-for-6 at the plate with a run scored and three RBI including a sac fly for the go-ahead run in the top of the 14th inning as the No. 4-ranked Salve Regina University baseball team survived a marathon contest with Emerson College, 8-7, on Saturday afternoon at Stein Diamond in Waltham, Massachusetts. This was just Game One of the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) doubleheader on the final day of the 2026 regular season for league play. The teams started at just before 2 p.m. after running around the Boston area in search of a playable field; four hours and nine minutes later, the Seahawks were winners.
Salve Regina (32-4, 13-2 NEWMAC) had single runs in five of the first six innings. Senior catcher
Shea Donovan (Milton, Mass.) had an RBI ground out in the first to plate sophomore center fielder
Danny Rogers (New Canaan, Conn.). Freshman third baseman
James Anastasopoulos (Sherborn, Mass.) singled down the left field line in the second to score freshman right fielder
Andrew Schmit (Shrewsbury, Mass.).
Emerson (6-24, 2-13 NEWMAC) got on the board with a solo homer from senior
Charlie Coors (Golden, Colo.). Sophomore second baseman
Jake Harring (Portsmouth, N.H.) singled up the middle in the third to score Hamilton for a 3-1 lead. The Lions tied the score in their third frame with the benefit of the game's only error.
In the fifth, Salve Regina went ahead when Hamilton doubled in Donovan.
John Churchward (Davis, Calif.) and
Liam Wagner (Hingham, Mass.) had RBI singles in the fifth to put Emerson on top for the first and only time today, 5-4. After
Dylan Cimini (Stonington, Conn.) struck a two-out single to score
Matt Stokes (Summit, N.J.) for the tying run, Seahawk starter
Nolan Romanowski (Wynantskill, N.Y.) put up three straight zeroes and his successor,
Joe DeRienzo (Trumbull, Conn.), added three straight zeroes as well.
Tyler Metcalf (Louisville, Ky.) carried the Lions on the mound from the sixth into the 12th inning while thoroughbreds prepared for the Running of the Roses in his hometown. Locked at 5-5 for six frames, Stokes started a two-run rally for the visitors with a leadoff bunt single in the 12th. Pinch-hitter
Brady Smolinski (North Grafton, Mass.) reached on an infield single and Cimini cashed in with an opposite-field single. Hamilton's double brought in Smolinski for a 7-5 Seahawk advantage.
Down to their last strike, Emerson extended the game when Coors singled up the middle to scoreÂ
Braeden O'Connell (Boxford, Mass.) and Churchward. Freshman left hander
Ethan Santerre (Bristol, R.I.) preserved the 7-7 score by getting a pop up to second baseman
Nate Ruehs (Plymouth, Mass.).
Both teams went down 1-2-3 in the 13th. Salve Regina's previous longest game had been a 13-inning affair against Endicott College in the 2018 Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) postseason which the
Seahawks won, 6-5.
Rogers singled to center field to lead off the 14th, moved to second when Smolinski was hit by a pitch, and both Seahawks runners advanced on a fly out before Hamilton lifted his sacrifice fly to right center field. Santerre got another 1-2-3 in the 14th including the final two Lions on strikes.
Game Two got underway under the lights at Stein Diamond (see separate story).
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