March 3, 2024

Seahawks walk off in Game One before sweeping Huskies, 4-3 and 6-3

Batting

Southern Maine
2B: Joe Bova
3B: none
HR: none
Salve Regina
2B: Matt D'Amato; Shane Williams; Michael Breen
3B: none
HR: none
full stats

KINGSTON, R.I. (Sunday, March 3, 2024) - Salve Regina University senior short stop Michael Breen (Auburn, Mass.) singled through the right side to bring home classmate Brandon Grover (Ashland, Mass.) with the winning run as the Seahawks walked off with Game One, 4-3, before sweeping the three-game series with the University of Southern Maine on a 6-3 final in Game Two of Sunday's doubleheader at Bill Beck Field.

Lefty reliever Brendan Foley (Burlington, Conn.) threw one pitch in the top of the ninth of the walk off win and benefitted from the Seahawks' bottom-half heroics. Starter Joe DeRienzo (Trumbull, Conn.) went 6.2 innings in Game Two and limited the Huskies to one run on three hits while striking out seven. Kyle Carozza (Fairfield, Conn.) retired all three batters face in the ninth for his second save of the season.

INSIDE THE MATCHUPS
Finals: 1) Salve Regina 4, Southern Maine 3; 2) Salve Regina 6, Southern Maine 3
Records: Salve Regina (5-1, 0-0 NEWMAC), Southern Maine (0-3, 0-0 LEC)
All-Time Series: Salve Regina has won seven straight against Southern Maine and improves to 8-3 in the all-time series.

SUMMARY - GAME ONE

  • B1 - Christian Homa singled with two out to put runners at the corners. Wil McCarthy's single plated Tyler Cannoe with the game's first run. | Seahawks 1, Huskies 0
  • B5 - Michael Breen was hit by a pitch with one out. Evan O'Rourke followed with a single through the left side to put runners at the corners. Matt D'Amato's bunt single added a run for Salve Regina. | Seahawks 2, Huskies 0
  • T6 - Cam Seymour led off with a single to right field. Seahawk starter Brayden Clark sandwiched two strikeouts around a base on balls. Dylan Fermin singled in the Huskies's first run and then Joe Bova's two-run double gave Southern Maine its first lead. | Huskies 3, Seahawks 2
  • B9 - Pinch-hitter Shane Williams doubled to center field with one out and advanced to third on a failed pick off throw. Tyler Petrosino tied the score with a sacrifice fly to center. Pinch-hitter Brandon Grover singled to left field and advanced to second on the second failed pick off throw of the inning. Grover swiped third with no throw before Michael Breen singled through the right side for the game-winner. | Seahawks 4, Huskies 3

SUMMARY - GAME TWO

  • B1 - Lead-off batter Evan O'Rourke crushed the first pitch over the left field fence for his first home run. | Seahawks 1, Huskies 0
  • B3 - Matt D'Amato tripled down the right field line and came home on sacrifice fly from Tyler Cannoe. | Seahawks 2, Huskies 0
  • T4 - Cam Seymour doubled to lead off the top of the fourth and came home on Christian Siciliano's double. Joe DeRienzo got out of further damage with two strikeouts and a grounder. | Seahawks 2, Huskies 1
  • B4 - Tyler Petrosino was hit by a pitch and stole second. Wil McCarthy advanced him to third with a ground ball to second. Michael
    Breen tripled in a run to up the lead back to two. | Seahawks 3, Huskies 1
  • B6 - Pinch-hitter Shane Williams led off with a walk. Nate Ruehs singled him to third. Evan O'Rourke delivered a sacrifice fly to score Williams. Ruehs stole second and came home on Christian Homa's single. | Seahawks 5, Huskies 1
  • B7 - Michael Breen reached on an error and advance to second on a wild pitch. After Gianfranco Messina walked, Nate Ruehs reached on a fielder's choice and Breen came around from second to score. | Seahawks 6, Huskies 1
  • T8 - Kyle Douin led off with a homer to center. Cam Syemour followed with a double before a pair of fly outs produced the second run of the inninng for the Huskies. | Seahawks 6, Huskies 3

NOTEWORTHY

  • Michael Breen had three hits on the day - single, double, and triple - and had a cycle for the weekend with yesterday's home run.
  • Matt D'Amato had three hits on the day - single, double, and triple.
  • Brendan Foley (W, 1-0) threw one pitch - a single to Chris Quigley - and right fielder Matt D'Amato cut a Husky runner down at home plate with a throw to catcher Brady Smolinski.
  • Joe DeRienzo (W, 1-1) threw 86 pitches, 63 for strikes.
  • Luis Ortiz came in a high leverage situation in the seventh and struck out Quigley.
  • Kyle Carozza (S, 2) threw 11 pitches, seven for strikes.

NEXT UP
Salve Regina (5-1) travels to Florida for a six-game slate in the RussMatt Invitational. The Seahawks have a pair of nine-inning games on Saturday, March 9, against two different opponents at Lake Myrtle Park - Ohio Northern University and Mount Union.