MANCHESTER, N.H. – Saint Anselm College will host Mercy (N.Y.) College this Saturday, Oct. 9 in a 1 p.m. field hockey match. The game will be contested at Grappone Stadium on the artificial turf playing surface.

No. 8 SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE HAWKS (8-3, 6-2 NE10)
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MERCY (N.Y.) COLLEGE MAVERICKS (2-7, 1-6 NE10)
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Saint Anselm has won five of its last six matches to date, most recently downing Southern New Hampshire on Wednesday, Oct. 6 by a 2-0 margin. The only blemish in the prior six-game span was a 2-1 setback at Adelphi on Monday.

Mercy has played to a 2-7 record so far, winners of just one of their first six games in Northeast-10 Conference play. The Mavericks are in the midst of a two-game losing skid, but have won each of their two games to date on the road (2-3).

PREVIEWING THE HAWKS

• The NCAA Division II runner-up team in 2019, Saint Anselm has sprinted out to an 8-3 record so far this season with an unblemished record at home (5-0). The Hawks own a 55-6 record when playing at Grappone Stadium since the start of the 2015 season.
• Sophomore Mackenzie McConnell (Concord Township, Maine) already has four shutouts to date this season, ranking fifth on the single-season list of clean sheets. She is tied for fourth on the all-time career list, trailing Riley Haddock '10 for third place as she posted six shutouts from 2006-08.
• Junior Maeve Murphy (Scituate, Mass.) became the program's first two-time winner of NE10 Player of the Week honors earlier this season and has logged a team-best 12 points via five goals and two assists (5-2=12).
• Senior Sarah Bagley (North Andover, Mass.) scored each of her team's two goals against Southern New Hampshire on Wednesday, giving her five goals in just 11 games on the season. She is in the midst of a career year for Saint Anselm, posting 11 points with her five goals and an assist (5-1=11).
• Senior Carly LaCasse (Sagamore Beach, Mass.) has put home 24 goals and eight assists for the Hawks, ranking seventh all-time with 56 career points (24-8=56). Her 24 goals is the fifth-most in a career on the Hilltop and needs just five more goals to jump to sole possession of second place all-time.
• LaCasse's career mark of .42 goals per game is the second-best figure in team annals, trailing only Hannah Friend '21 and her .43 tallies per tilt across 87 career contests. Her seven career game-winning goals is third in team history.
• Head Coach Carolyn King-Robitaille has posted a 113-57 overall record (.665) since joining the program after the 2011-12 season. In the last seven campaigns, she has won 93 out of a possible 118 games for a winning percentage of .788.

SCOUTING THE MAVERICKS

• Mercy picked up a thrilling 2-1 victory over No. 9-ranked American International on Friday, Sept. 24. The No. 9 ranking of the Yellow Jackets was the highest ranked team that the Mavericks have defeated in program history.
• Nicole Cotton leads the way with three goals and is followed by two goals from Katie Kreider. Nine student-athletes have at least one point for the Mavericks, who have been outscored by a 28-to-9 cumulative margin so far in 2021.
• Lauren Viscione and Cydney Wolff have played in goal for Mercy, combining to concede 28 goals on 96 shots for a .708 save percentage. Viscione has started eight of the nine games played so far while Wolff won her season debut, a one-save shutout of Molloy in the season-opening game on Sept. 5.
• Head Coach Marissa Spinazzola earned her first collegiate victory in that contest against the Yellow Jackets. She was a standout two-sport student-athlete for the Mavericks, playing in 56 games and logging two of her five defensive saves against Saint Anselm.

ALL-TIME vs. MERCY (N.Y.)

• Saint Anselm is 6-1 in the all-time series against the Mavericks – the Hawks have come out on top in each of the last five games dating back to Sept. 7, 2014.
• The Hawks have allowed just one goal to Mercy in the last five meetings combined. In total, Saint Anselm has outscored the Mavericks by a 19-to-1 margin in that span.
• Mercy came away with a 2-0 win against the Hawks on Oct. 12, 2013 at Grappone Stadium, the team's second-ever NCAA Division II victory for the fledgling program. The team's Head Coach at the time was Kayte Kinsley, who now heads up the field hockey team at Pace.