New Haven, Conn. (March 28) -- Saint Anselm dropped a pair of Northeast-10 games at Southern Connecticut on Saturday afternoon. The Hawks fell in eight innings by a 1-0 final in game one, followed by a 6-2 setback in the second game.

In game one, junior Megan Lemire (Worcester, Mass.) held the Owls to just five hits over the first seven innings before running into trouble in the bottom of the eighth. After a leadoff double, the runner was sacrificed to third and scored on a fielder's choice for the game's lone run. Lemire scattered six hits in the game and fell to 6-3 on the season.

In the second, Southern Conn. jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning off pitcher Britnee O'Neill (Ashland, Mass.) and the score stayed that way until the fifth inning. The Hawks put up a lone run in the fifth as Morgan Murphy (Orange, Mass.) blasted a home run to center field before the Owls answered back in the bottom of the inning with two runs. The hosts stretched that lead to 6-1 in the bottom of the sixth before an RBI single by Kayla McEachern (Stoneham, Mass.) in the seventh scored Katherine Theodorou (Glen Cove, N.Y.) and cap the scoring. McEachern finished the game 2-for-4 with one RBI to lead the Hawks. O'Neill went 5.1 innings, giving up nine hits and four earned runs with three strikeouts.

The Hawks fall to 9-10-1 overall and 1-2-1 in the league, while the Owls are now 15-3 overall and 4-0 in the Northeast-10. Saint Anselm's doubleheader scheduled for Sunday afternoon at Pace has been postponed due to an incoming storm slated for Sunday in the Northeast.