Two lefty hurlers pitch Seahawks to sweep

FORT MYERS, Fla. - A senior and a freshman left-handed starting pitchers for Salve Regina University baseball - Vincent Roth (Plasant Valley, N.Y.) and Cole Tretter (East Lyme, Conn.) - combined for 11 innings of work allowing only seven hits and two earned runs as the Seahawks swept the Blue Devils of Fredonia State, 9-1 in the opener and 10-3 in the nightcap.

Salve Regina improves to 7-1 on its Florida trip while Fredonia State, escaping the snow in upstate New York, drops the first two games on its 2014 schedule.

Roth, the reigning pitcher of the week in the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC), retired the first three Blue Devils' hitters before Kenny Johnston and Kyle Koslowski singled to open the second inning. A sacrifice bunt moved the runners to second and third with one out; Roth got the next with a pick-off move to second to catch Koslowski off the bag before striking out Matt Casilio.

In the Seahawk third inning, Ryan Sweenor (So. Kingstown, R.I.) had a two-run, bases-loaded single with two outs for the first runs of the game.

Ryan Kelly (Waldwick, N.J.) opened the fourth inning with a triple to left field. He scored on Daniel Donohue's (Westbury, N.Y.) single up the middle. Tyler Colby (Easton, Conn.) followed with a single to right field. Dominic Di Sano (Central Falls, R.I.) drove an RBI single through the left side and moved Colby to third. The senior pair then executed a double steal with Colby coming home after Di Sano swiped second.

Joe Haley (No. Kingstown, R.I.) earned a base on balls, then he and Di Sano moved along the bases on a sacrifice but from Hunter Sleeper (Arlington, Mass.). Nicholas Dell'Anno's (Reading, Mass.) single scored Di Sano before Sweenor's sacrifice fly plated Haley with the fifth run of the inning.

Hits by Haley in the fifth and Mark Boland (Orange, Conn.) in the sixth led to single runs in each of those two innings.

Sweenor finished the morning game 2-for-2 with three RBI; Di Sano scored three times. Roth pitched six innings allowing just five hits and one run while striking out eight Blue Devils to improve to 2-0 on the season.

Kelly had a 4-for-5 game in the afternoon with a run batted in and two runs scored. Four other Seahawks also had multi-hit games in the nightcap as Salve Regina amassed 15 basehits. Donohue, Colby (3), Sweenor, and Alek Kucich (Old Brookville, N.Y.) contributed nine of the 15 hits. Kucich had four runs batted in, two in the four-run third and two more in the four-run sixth.

Tretter went five innings allowing just three hits and one earned run while striking out two. He also improved to 2-0 on the season.

Salve Regina finishes its Florida schedule with a pair of games against Swarthmore College at Terry Park (10 a.m.).