NEWPORT, R.I. - The reigning TCCC and ECAC pitcher of the week Sarah Jakiela picked up two more victories as Salve Regina University softball swept visiting Nichols College, 2-1 and 5-1, in The Commonwealth Coast Conference action at Toppa Field. The loss snaps a six-game win streak for the Bison (11-13, 9-5 TCCC).

Jakiela struck out 19 batters in 14 innings pitched while allowing just two runs, both unearned, and five hits. Sophomore INF Christina Walsh and freshman Kristen Parolise led off the Seahawk fourth in game one with back-to-back singles. Following two pop outs to first base, senior INF Katie Vieira. doubled home the game's first run. Senior INF Sarah Ramsey added an RBI single to right field for a 2-0 lead.

Nichols cut the deficit in half without benefit of a hit in its sixth inning. With one out, sophomore INF Mary Kate Frodema (Springfield, Mass.) reached base as a hit batsman and moved to third with successive walks. She came home on an error charged to the Seahawk pitcher. Ramsey cut down the potential tying run with a force out at home before Jakiela induced a grounder to Ramsey at second to end the threat.

Jakiela retired the Bison in order in the seventh for the 2-1 victory.

Lauren Correira (Seekonk, Mass.) led off game two with a base on balls, stole second and came home after back-to-back infield errors to give Nichols an early 1-0 lead. Parolise struck a two-double to drive in Amaran Garbisch and even the score in the Seahawk first. Salve Regina had single runs in the second and third innings as well when Emily Rodenhiser belted a lead-off double and came home on a grounder to second by Vieira, and then Vieira singled home Parolise in the next frame.

After Salve Regina's first two batters reached base in the fourth, Bison starter Lindsay Hassett (Oxford, Mass.) was lifted for reliever Ashley Wyland (Schenectady, N.Y.). Wyland induced an infield ground out for her first batter before Walsh laced a two-run single to right center and a 5-1 Seahawk lead.

Jakiela allowed solo baserunners in the final three innings but nobody got beyond second base.

Salve Regina (15-10-1; 9-2-1 TCCC) has gone unbeaten in its last nine games and is off for Easter break before traveling to Eastern Nazarene College for a Monday morning doubleheader (10:30 a.m.). Nichols hosts WPI in a non-league doubleheader on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.

Story courtesy Salve Regina Sports Information

Game One Box Score
Game Two Box Score