Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – The Roger Williams University Softball team finished as runner-up in the Commonwealth Coast Conference on the final day of the CCC Tournament. The Hawks upset top-seeded Western New England 2-0 in the opening game before falling 0-2 to #3 Salve Regina.
 
The first game featured a pitcher's duel between Western New England senior Heidi Grieger (Hyde Park, N.Y.), and Roger Williams senior Meghan Maliga (Suffield, Conn.). Both Grieger and Maliga went the distance, surrendering five hits and no earned runs, but the Hawks capitalized on a Western New England error in the fourth inning to push across the only two runs of the game.
 
Maliga also got the job done at the plate, recording a two-out RBI single in the top of the fourth, while junior Julianne Vesce (Mahwah, N.J.) followed with another run-scoring single. That would be all the offense Roger Williams needed, as Western New England's bats were held in check by Maliga.
 
Junior catcher Corianna DeLisi (Tuxedo, N.Y.) accounted for two of the Golden Bears' five hits with a 2-for-4 effort out of the leadoff spot, while Grieger and classmates Heather Fecteau (Biddeford, Maine) and Alexis Bukowski (Wallingford, Conn.) recorded one single each.
 
In the second game, Salve Regina's Nicole Parry (Quincy, Mass.) and Kelsey Boarman (No. Dighton, Mass.) combined for their second straight shutout, winning the fifth CCC title for the Seahawks.
 
Parry started in the circle and gave up just two hits (one in the first, another in the second) over three innings and stranded both runners. Salve Regina second baseman Francesca Galeazzi (Lynn, Mass.) led off the bottom of the first with a first-pitch single over third base. Left fielder Lindsey Florent (New Bedford, Mass.) beat out a bunt single. After a fielder's choice removed Galeazzi from the base paths, Kara O'Riley (Acton, Mass.) grounded out to first to put Seahawk runners on second and third.
 
A wild pitch from Hawks' starter Mary Adametz (Higganum, Conn.) allowed Florent to score with the first run from third.
 
Salve Regina also had base hits from the first two batters in the second inning - Lexi Soucie (No. Easton, Mass.) and senior catcher captain Genevieve Benoit (Swampscott, Mass.) -  but no advancement beyond second base.
 
Boarman inherited the 1-0 lead when she started to work the top of the fourth. Sophomore shortstop Haley Ledbetter (Westerly, R.I.), batting from the left side, grounded to the left side of the infield with third baseman Elizabeth Lombardo (Thomaston, Conn.) getting a piece to slow it down, and Amanda Riley (Barrington, N.H.) backhanded the ball, but Ledbetter beat the throw to first. Boarman stranded Ledbetter at second and allowed only a harmless single the rest of the way.
 
Salve Regina added an insurance run in the bottom of the fourth with Benoit lining a one-out triple to right field. Fellow senior captain Melissa Figueiredo (East Bridgewater, Mass.) pinch ran for her classmate and scored the second run on Megan Guest's (Meriden, Conn.) RBI single to left field.
 
Galeazzi added her second base hit later in the fourth inning, the last of eight hits in the game for Salve Regina.
 
Pitching and defense finished the job for Salve Regina. Boarman induced three straight groundouts in the final inning. First baseman Emily Woznick (Sandy Hook, Conn.) took the first play unassisted before Lombardo intercepted a grounder headed for the hole on the left side and gunned to Woznick for the second out. Galeazzi got in front of a grounder up the middle and threw to Woznick for the final out and Seahawks celebrated a championship.
 
Roger Williams wraps up the season at 24-19.
 
- Release courtesy of the Western New England University and Salve Regina University Sports Information Departments