Posted: Mar 24, 2012
Seahawks sweep Bison to move to 4-0 in CCC
Game 1
Game 1
Salve Regina
(6-5)
4
Nichols
(5-6)
3
| Final (9) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Salve Regina | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 0 |
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Nichols | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
Game 2
Game 2
Salve Regina
(7-5)
10
Nichols
(5-7)
7
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Salve Regina | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 1 |
|
Nichols | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 2 |
DUDLEY, Mass. – The Salve Regina University softball team swept Nichols in a Commonwealth Coast Conference twinbill Saturday afternoon. Nichols made a dramatic comeback in the opening game, only to fall to the Seahawks, 4-3, in nine innings, and Salve Regina pounded out 14 hits to win the nightcap, 10-7. Nichols dips to 5-7 and 0-2 in conference games, while the Seahawks, winners of six of their last eight games, improve to 7-5 overall and 4-0 in league play.
Nichols senior catcher Chelsea Correia (Seekonk, Mass.) hit a home run in each game, finishing the day 4-for-7 with three RBI and four runs scored to inch closer to the Bison's career home runs record. She now stands two away from the mark.
Jillian Quintana (Denver, Colo.) accounted for three of the Seahawks' four runs in the day's first game, leading off the second inning with a solo home run over the left field fence before coming up big in the top of the ninth with a two-run double to give Salve Regina the victory.
Megan Jakiela (Meriden, Conn.) pushed the visitors ahead with a two-out RBI double in the third, but the Bison got out of bases-loaded jams in the fifth and sixth innings to keep the score 2-0 headed into the bottom of the seventh.
Seahawks hurler Jen Cruver (North Haven, Conn.) had held Nichols to just one baserunner through six innings, but back-to-back two-out home runs from Emalee Watkins (Malden, Mass.) and Chelsea Correia changed the game in an instant. The Bison got one more runner on, but ended the inning on a groundout to send the game to extra innings.
Neither team got the ball out of the infield in the eighth, but Quintana's double in the top of the ninth plated two and was the difference maker.
In the bottom of the frame, Bison runner Avery Orszulak (Springfield, Mass.) took advantage of a wild pitch to hit third, but was held up at the corner when Lauren Correia (Seekonk, Mass.) hit a short single to reach. A sac bunt from Rachel Dalrymple (Belvidere, N.J.) put them in scoring position for Watkins, who singled in Orszulak before a groundout and strikeout ended the game with the winning runs stranded on the bags.
Cruver had 12 strikeouts and did not walk a batter in the game. She allowed three runs – two earned – on six hits, five of which came in the final three innings.
Bison hurler Molly Ferraro (Millis, Mass.) fanned six while giving up 11 hits and four runs (three earned) and walking five.
Salve Regina used a two-out rally to score three runs in the first inning of the nightcap. With Jennifer Edine (Warwick, R.I.) and Muehlbronner on base, the Seahawks used three consecutive hits, capped by a double from Zeena Barbarita (Johnston, R.I.) to take a three-run lead.
Nichols answered back in the bottom half of the inning, using an RBI single from Watkins and a two-run bomb from Chelsea Correia to knot it up.
A passed ball and an error in the fourth gave way to a one-run Seahawk lead in the fourth as Laura Anne Dinan (Monterey, Mass.) knocked a two-out RBI single. Salve Regina added three more in the sixth, attacking both sides of the field with doubles from Kristen Parolise (Hamden, Conn.) and Marissa Simpson (Brimfield, Mass.). Parolise led off with a ground-rule double down the left field line, and Simpson drove in a pair of runs with a double down the right field line. She came around to score after a wild pitch and an Edine single.
Nichols gathered momentum in the bottom of the frame, as Savannah Thibault (Marlborough, Mass.) followed a Chelsea Correia double with a single through the right side. Caitlyn O'Loughlin (Waterford, Conn.) kept it going with a double to plate Correia, but three-straight strikeouts from Seahawks' reliever Simpson took the wind out of the Bison's sails.
A two-out error in the seventh proved costly for the Bison as Salve Regina put up three runs in the frame to take a 10-4 lead. Nichols rallied in the bottom of the inning with three consecutive singles to load the bases followed by a two-run double from Thibault. O'Loughlin had a tough-break groundout to first to score the final run.
Becca Waszczuk (Chester, N.H.) shouldered the loss with eight runs on 12 hits through six innings before giving way to Taylor Ferrazzi (Ashland, Mass.) in the final frame. Simpson earned the win in five innings of relief, striking out five while allowing four runs on eight hits.
Nichols continues CCC action on Sunday in a noon doubleheader at Endicott. Salve Regina travels to Eastern Connecticut State for a 4 p.m. twinbill on Tuesday, March 27.
Courtesy of Nichols Sports Information