Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 NEWPORT, R.I. – The Roger Williams University Softball team had its bid for the Commonwealth Coast Conference Championship fall just short, as top seeded Salve Regina captured the title with a 3-0 win. The Hawks defeated the #2 seed Western New England University 7-1 in the opener to make it to the title game.
 
Game 11
 
#3 Roger Williams 7, #2 Western New England 1
 
Roger Williams struck first in the opening inning. With the bases loaded and one out, Alyssa Murray (Green Brook, N.J.) brought in Meredith Moise (North Reading, Mass.) with an RBI groundout to short to put the Hawks on the board. Tara Chatowsky (North Kingstown, R.I.) stepped up next with a two-RBI single to score Micaela Pohl and Alicia McCauley (North Reading, Mass.), giving RWU a 3-0 lead.
 
Western New England got back one of the runs in the bottom of the first, with Gabby Lavinio doubling to right center and scoring Aimee Kistner. However, Roger Williams answered with another run in the top of the second. Julianne Vesce (Mahwah, N.J.) hit her own double to right center and bringing home Haley Ledbetter (Westerly, R.I.) to bring the Hawk lead back to three.
 
The following inning saw Rachel Wandzilak (West Islip, N.Y.) logging an RBI single to right center to score Chatowsky from second, making it a 5-1 Hawk lead. In the sixth, Vesce picked up another RBI hit, singling to left to score Wandzilak. Moise scored RWU's final run of the game on an error at shortstop.
 
Wandzilak was dominant in the circle for Roger Williams, allowing only three hits and four walks in the complete game win with three strikeouts. She also went 2-for-4 in the game with a run and an RBI. Vesce was 2-for-2 at the plate with two walks and two RBIs. Moise went 2-for-4 with two runs scored.
 
Game 12
 
#1 Salve Regina 3, #3 Roger Williams 0
 
Boarman gave up eight hits to the Hawks in the first five innings and worked out of each jam. Haley Ledbetter (Westerly, R.I.) singled with one out in the first inning before the conference's player of the year, Salve Regina's Francesca Galeazzi (Lynn, Mass.), snagged a line drive and turned it into a double play.
 
Three singles in the second inning loaded the bases for Roger Williams with one out. Boarman got a short fly to right fielder Amanda Riley (Barrington, N.H.) before striking out the number nine hitter to end the threat.
 
Ledbetter and Julianne Vesce (Mahwah, N.J.) had consecutive singles with one out in the top of the third. Boarman got two more lazy flies to Riley in right,
 
Meanwhile, Roger Williams starting pitcher Juliet Hulme (Duxbury, Mass.) set the first six Seahawks she faced down in order. Salve Regina senior All-CCC outfielder Lexi Soucie (No. Easton, Mass.) singled to open the third inning against Hulme, but did not get beyond second base.
 
A two-out double by Taylor Chatowsky (No. Kingstown, R.I.) produced nothing for the visitors in the fourth, and Salve Regina went to work offensively in the bottom of the frame.
 
Sophomore All-CCC third baseman Elizabeth Lombardo (Thomaston, Conn.) led off with a bunt single and Riley poked one through the right side for runners at first and second with no outs. Sophomore All-CCC catcher Emily Woznick (Sandy Hook, Conn.) brought the Seahawk crowd to its feet with a long blast to left field, but it got held up by a stiff wind and Tara Chatowsky (No. Kingstown, R.I.) got under it a few feet from the fence for the first out.
 
After a wild pitch moved runners to second and third, Hulme struck out the next batter. Senior All-CCC shortstop Nikki Bukovsky (Westport, Conn.) drove in Lombardo with the game's first run with a bunt single. Soucie followed with her second basehit, a single to left center that plated Riley and Bukovsky for a 3-0 lead.
 
Boarman retired the last seven Hawks she faced and finished with three strikeouts. She got the last out on a comebacker to the circle, and underhand flipped to first baseman Kristen Hickey (New Hyde Park, N.Y.).
 
- Additional information courtesy of the Salve Regina University Sports Information Department