BRISTOL, R.I. – The Roger Williams University Softball team extended its winning streak to a season-best six games with a pair of wins Thursday afternoon over Salve Regina University by the scores 10-3 and 8-0.
The Hawks led off the first inning with a triple by Sarah Grill (Watervliet, N.Y.) and would come around to score two batters later on an Erica Castro (Medford, N.Y.) sacrifice fly to put RWU up 1-0. The run by Grill would spark a six-run inning for the Hawks, who sent 11 batters to the plate in the frame.
Salve Regina would make it a 6-3 game in the top of the third off of RBI singles by Sarah Ramsey (Muncy, Pa.), Kristen Parolise (Hamden, Conn.), and Sarah Jakiela (Meriden, Conn). That would be all the Seahawks could muster for the remainder of the game, after the Hawks added three in the fifth and one in the sixth to hold on for the win.
Jaclyn Doolin (Miller Place, N.Y.) won her fifth straight decision, holding the Seahawk offense to three runs on eight hits with eight strikeouts. Hannah Pirez (Bolton, Mass.) went 2-for-4 with two runs scored and an RBI, while Michelle Caprice (Oak Ridge, N.J.) was 2-for-3 with a run and two RBI.
Jakiela dropped the decision, allowing all ten runs in the game but only four earned. Amaran Garbisch (Ghent, N.Y.) had three hits in the game with Jakiela was 2-for-4 with an RBI.
In the second game, the Hawks jumped out to another early lead in the bottom of the first. After Grill and Caprice each got on base to lead off the inning, Castro brought both of them home off an RBI double, jump starting a four-run inning for the Hawks.
The scoring would continue in the bottom of the second, with Pirez, Melissa Sereti (Shrewsbury, Mass.), and Samantha Teves (Somerset, Mass.) each tallying an RBI in the frame to put RWU up 7-0 after two.
Salve Regina was unable to get anything started offensively in the game. Katie Vieira (Dartmouth, Mass.) managed a two-out double in the second, but that would be as far as any Seahawk batter would advance in the game, after an RBI single by Jessie Lauze (Hopkinton, Mass.) in the sixth gave RWU the abbreviated win.
Doolin earned her fifth shutout of the season, allowing only two hits with two strikeouts. Castro went 2-for-4 with a run and two RBI, with Caprice adding three hits and two runs scored.
Garbisch took the loss, allowing eight runs (six earned) in 5.1 innings. Vieira and Parolise had the two Seahawk hits in the game.
Roger Williams (24-14, 14-6 TCCC) will take on Gordon College Friday afternoon at 3:00 p.m., while Salve Regina (20-15-1, 14-5-1 TCCC) has a 4:00 p.m. matching with Endicott Friday.
