Easton, Mass. (May 3) -- In the final doubleheader of the season, the Saint Anselm baseball team dropped a pair of games to Stonehill in Northeast-10 play on Sunday afternoon. The Hawks fell in game one by a narrow 8-7 final before dropping game two by a 9-1 score.

The Hawks jumped out to an early 3-0 lead in the first inning on RBI hits by Melvin Perdue (Jonesboro, Ga.), Alex Aguilar (Newbury, Mass.) and Eric Baca (Franklin, N.H.). After the Skyhawks scored single unearned runs in both the second and third innings, Saint Anselm pushed the lead back to 4-2 in the fourth and added two more in the sixth to make it 6-2.

Stonehill scored four times in the seventh and added two more in the eighth to make it an 8-6 game as Bret Bartlett (Duxbury, Mass.) relieved Saint Anselm starter Sean Hayden (Haverhill, Mass.) after 6.1 innings. Ben Waldrip (Medford, Mass.) homered to right center, his third of the season, to close the Hawks to within 8-7, but the visitors would get no closer in the loss. Barlett took the loss in 1.2 innings of relief, allowed three hits and two runs in 1.2 innings of work. Hayden allowed six runs, including four earned, along with four strikeouts. Ben Gunn (Vineyard Haven, Mass.) led the Hawks' offense with a 3-for-4 showing with two runs scored. Steven Panza (Watertown, Mass.) also finished at 2-for-5 with two runs batted in.

In game two, Stonehill jumped out to a 7-0 lead after three innings before the Hawks got on the board in the fifth on a bases-loaded walk that scored Evan Kelleher (Haverhill, Mass.). The Skyhawks added two later runs for the 9-1 final. John Healy (Cranston, R.I.) went 2.1 innings, allowing seven hits and six earned runs to drop to 3-5 overall. Jimmy Garrigan (Plymouth, Mass.) was the lone Hawk with multiple hits, going 2-for-4 in the season finale.

Saint Anselm ends the 2009 season at 16-31 overall and 11-19 in the Northeast-10.