Manchester, N.H. (April 25) -- On an 80-degree Saturday afternoon, the Saint Anselm softball team dropped a pair of Northeast-10 games to the College of Saint Rose. The Hawks drop game one by a 4-3 final, followed by a 9-4 defeat in the second game.

In the top of the first, the Golden Knights took a 1-0 lead on an RBI single through the right side by Ashley Anderson to score Megan Rios. The Hawks answered back immediately though in the bottom of the inning as Lizzy LeBrun (Rowley, Mass.) roped an RBI double to score Katherine Theodorou (Glen Cove, N.Y.). The Hawks took a 3-1 lead in the second as Moira McCabe (Brookline, N.H.) launched a two-RBI double to right field to score a pair of unearned runs.

The score stayed that way until the fifth as the Golden Knights pushed across three runs on three hits for the victory, the fifth straight for Saint Rose. Anderson was the lone player for Saint Rose with multiple hits as she was 3-for-3 with one run scored and two runs batted in.

Kayla McEachern (Stoneham, Mass.) led the Hawks with a 2-for-3 showing with one RBI, while McCabe was 1-for-3 with two RBI's.

Nicole Welch picked up the win in relief for the Golden Knights, pitching three innings and allowing just one hit to improve to 9-11. Junior Megan Lemire (Worcester, Mass.) allowed four runs, two earned, while scattering seven hits to fall to 11-10 overall.

In the second game, Saint Rose jumped out to a 2-0 lead behind a two-RBI single to right center by Kerry Monahan. The Hawks answered in the third with three runs, keyed by a two-RBI single to left center by Brittany Birch (Bradford, Mass.). Saint Rose scored single runs in the third and fourth innings before the Hawks tied the game again in the bottom of the fourth. Morgan Murphy (Orange, Mass.) lined a one-out triple to left that bounced off the outfield wall and she came home on an RBI single up the middle by senior Julie Beaudry (Worcester, Mass.).

Saint Rose took control in the top of the fifth with four unearned runs to turn the tie game into an 8-4 lead for the Golden Knights. The visitors added a sixth-inning run to account for the 9-4 final.

Raylyn Glavin (Saugus, Mass.) and Murphy both finished game two with two hits each to lead the Hawks offense.

Lisa Caruso (Granby, Conn.) fell to 3-6 overall with the loss, while Welch improved to 10-11 with her third victory of the day.

Saint Anselm returns to action on Sunday afternoon, hosting Le Moyne for a Noon doubleheader. Prior to the game, the Hawks will recognize four members of the Saint Anselm 2009 Senior Class.