LAKELAND, Fla. (March 13, 2022) - After Saturday's game with Coe College was canceled due to lightning and a tornado watch, Salve Regina University baseball left 22 runners on base over 19 innings on Sunday while dropping two low-scoring games - 1-0 to Mount Union College at Lake Myrtle Park in the morning, and 2-1 in 10 innings to St. John Fisher College at historic Henley Field in the afternoon.
Both the Raiders (6-5) and Cardinals (3-5) departed Florida shortly after their games with the Seahawks (3-3). Salve Regina has an off day Monday followed by a matchup with Oswego State on Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Auburndale, Fla.
Pinch-hitting to lead off the top of the seventh against St. John Fisher, senior infielder Sean O'Malley (Darien, Conn.) slugged a 1-0 pitch over the wall in right at Henley Field to tie the score. It would be the only time the Seahawks crossed the plate in 19 innings on Sunday as they stranded 15 against the Raiders and seven more versus the Cardinals.
Salve Regina starting pitcher Patrick Maybach (Saunderstown, R.I.) hurled six perfect frames (one through three, and five through seven), but it was the bottom of the fourth where Zach Mazza and Eric Schilling strung together two basehits to score the game's lone run. Maybach struck out 11 Raiders.
Thomas Gallant (2-1) struck out nine Seahawks in six innings for his second win of 2022 while Jeremy Sassano earned the save in his three innings of work and escaping a bases-loaded jam by getting O'Malley to line out to left to end the game.
Mount Union left for the airport while Salve Regina headed to Henley Field in Lakeland, Fla., to face St. John Fisher which had a 4:15 p.m. "gotta go" deadline for its departure. After pitching six hitless frames a week ago, Seahawk starter Brayden Clark (Beverly, Mass.) struck out seven Cardinals over six innings while allowing just four hits and no free passes. One of those four hits was a leadoff home run by first baseman Brian Norsen in the fourth inning. O'Malley's blast off reliever Ryan O'Mara knotted the score at 1-1, before defensive replacement Jimmy McCardle delivered the game-winning single in the bottom of the tenth.
O'Mara pitched six innings in relief while Logan Persse (1-1) earned his first win of the season with a scorelss tenth.