Manchester, N.H. (April 26) -- The Saint Anselm softball team split a doubleheader on Saturday afternoon with Southern Connecticut. After dropping the first game 6-0, the Hawks bounced back to win the second game, 7-2. Saint Anselm's record now stands at 20-17-1 overall, 14-13-1 in Northeast-10 play. Southern Connecticut's record now stands at 22-25, 15-11 in league play.

In game one, Jessica Dempsey (Stratford, Conn.) held the Hawks to just four hits in a complete game, two strikeout performance. The score was scoreless until the fifth inning, when Monica Savarese (Orange, Conn.) brought home Khristle Lee (Aztec, N.M.) to put the Owls up 1-0. The Owls added another run in the inning as Christina Wolf (Newtown, Conn.) singled in Brittany Gandley (Holbrook, N.Y.). The Owls then struck for four more in the sixth when Gandley belted a grand-slam homerun over the left-center field fence to put the Hawks up for good at 6-0. Nicole Baginski (Beverly, Mass.), Katherine Theodorou (Glen Cove, N.Y.), Jaclyn Giannino (Beverly, Mass.), and Kayla McEachern (Stoneham, Mass.) all had single hits in the game for the Hawks.

Game two again saw the Owls take the lead, as Megan Caporossi's (Northford, Conn.) single in the first inning brought in Julianne Flood (Poughquag, N.Y.). The Hawks' offense opened up for four runs in the bottom of the inning though, and the Hawks took a lead they would not give up. After loading the bases with no outs, Theodorou picked up an RBI single. Baginski then tripled to right-center, bringing home two more runs. Megan Lemire's (Worcester, Mass.) single brought in the fourth and final run of the inning. The Owls got one back in the third when Caporossi had a solo shot to bring Southern Connecticut back within two. However, the Hawks added three runs in the bottom of the fifth to put the game out of reach. Liz LeBrun (Rowley, Mass.) had an RBI single, while Lemire's double brought home two more. Lemire also picked up the win for the Hawks, tossing 6.1 innings, scattering seven hits and allowing just two runs. Katie Corey (Weymouth, Mass.) came in to shut the door with the bases loaded in the seventh. After getting the first batter she faced, she induced a groundout to second to end the game 7-2 in favor of the Hawks.

The Hawks are back in action on Monday, as the team travels back to Smithfield, R.I. to complete its game against Bryant that had originally ended in a 7-7 tie after 10 innings and was called due to darkness.