Seahawks get edge in season series with Hawks

NEWPORT, R.I. (April 27, 2022) - Salve Regina University starting pitcher Dominic Perachi (Washington Depot, Conn.) improved to 8-0 on the season and lowered his earned run average to 0.36 with five innings of work as the Seahawks defeated visiting Roger Williams University, 8-1, in Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) baseball action at Reynolds Field on Wednesday afternoon.

Salve Regina (19-9-2, 10-0-2 CCC) also goes 21 games above .500 in the all-time series with Roger Williams (25-4-1, 9-3-1 CCC) with their 55th win against the Hawks. The two ties in the series came 30 years apart, earlier this month on April 5 at Bristol, R.I., and on April 8, 1992, also on the Hawks' home field.

The top four in the Seahawk lineup - Matt D'Amato (Midland Park, N.J.), Dustin Siqueira (Trumbull, Conn.), Dylan Ketch (Clinton, Conn.), and Tyler Cannoe (Schenectady, N.Y.) - combined for eight hits, five runs scored, and seven runs batted in, highlighted by D'Amato's two-run homer in the fifth inning. After getting down 1-0 on an unearned run in the top of the first, D'Amato drew a leadoff walk and Siqueira reached on a fielder's choice before Ketch drove in the game-tying run with a double to deep right field. Cannoe had a productive out with a sacrifice fly to right, plating Siqueira. Ketch came home for a 3-1 lead on Tyler Petrosino's (Beverly, Mass.) fielder's choice grounder.

The Seahawks tacked on three insurance runs in the eighth inning, two on Siqueira's (pronounced si-KAY-da) single to right field and another on a sacrifice fly by Ketch.

Perachi struck out nine Hawks, two in each inning except the third. His pitch count ran over 100 in the five innings before senior Andrew Roman (Monson, Mass.) and junior Eddie Hardiman (Danvers, Mass.) finished the sixth through eighth and ninth innings, respectively. Roman got three Ks in three innings while Hardiman set down two Hawks on strikes.

Salve Regina returns to the diamond on Thursday with a home game against Mitchell College (23-9) at 3:30 p.m. Roger Williams hosts No. 2 Eastern Connecticut State University in the opener of a three-game series.