Seahawks sweep Bears in Florida twinbill

FORT MYERS, Fla. - Senior lefty Vincent Roth (Pleasant Valley, N.Y.) spun a three-hit shutout in the opener of a Florida doubleheader as Salve Regina University baseball swept Coast Guard Academy by scores of 4-0 and 5-4 at the Player Development Complex in Fort Myers.

Salve Regina improves to 4-0 with all four wins coming against New London, Conn., schools - Mitchell College and its neighbor Coast Guard. The Bears fall to 1-4 on the young season.

Roth faced 25 batters in the complete-game effort, striking out five Bears. Two of the three Coast Guard hits came in the top of the first. With runners at the corners and one out in the first, Seahawk catcher Dominic Di Sano (Central Falls, R.I.) cut down Behne attempting to steal second base. Roth escaped damage with a grounder to Hunter Sleeper (Arlington, Mass.) to end the frame.

Anthony Conte's (Georgetown, Mass.) bunt single in the bottom of the second produced the first Seahawk run. Sleeper's single had moved Ryan Sweenor (South Kingstown, R.I.) to third and Conte delivered the only run that Roth would need.

Tyler Colby (Easton, Conn.) and Daniel Donohue (Westbury, N.Y.) led off the third with successive singles. Both came around to score the second and third runs, respectively, on RBI singles from Joe Haley (North Kingstown, R.I.) and Sweenor.

The final Seahawk run in Game One came in the fourth with Colby, Donohue, and Di Sano loading the bases with singles and Haley's sacrifice fly plating Colby.

In Game Two, the Seahawks scored single runs in the first, second, and fourth innings to stake starter Cory Poplawski (Syracuse, N.Y.) to a 3-1 lead.

After Coast Guard tied the game at 3-3 in the fifth, Alek Kucich (Old Brookville, N.Y.) and Nicholas Dell'Anno (Reading, Mass.) had RBI singles in the seventh for a 5-3 Seahawk advantage. Kevin Lambert (Fairfield, Conn.) earned the pitching victory working a one-hit sixth inning while Thomas Betros (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) received credit for the save despite allowing an earned run in the seventh.

Salve Regina faces Alvernia College in a single, nine-inning game at 10 a.m. Monday.