MANCHESTER, N.H. – The Saint Anselm College women's basketball returns to Northeast-10 Conference play on Sunday, Dec. 5, hosting Stonehill College at 1:30 p.m. in a rematch of the league's 2019-20 postseason championship tilt.

SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE HAWKS (3-4, 0-2 NE10)
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The Hawks carry a 3-4 record into play, having lost two straight and all three games played at home in Stoutenburgh Gymnasium. Two of the three wins for Saint Anselm have come at a neutral site and the team remains in search of its first NE10 victory of the 2021-22 campaign.

Stonehill has stumbled out to a 1-2 record on the young season, falling by three points at Saint Michael's before dropping its home opener to Bentley, 62-51, on Nov. 23. Last time out, the Skyhawks eked out a two-point win at Daemen in what is a common opponent this season with the Hawks.

Fans attending Sunday's game are expected to familiarize themselves with the College's spectator and ticketing policies.

SCOUTING SAINT ANSELM

• Last time out, the Hawks got off to a slow start in the first quarter against Holy Family, trailing by an 18-8 margin after the opening 10 minutes. Saint Anselm turned it on in the final three quarters, but the Hawks fell to the visiting Tigers by a 64-61 margin on Nov. 27.
• Sophomore Gabby Turco (Wildwood, N.J.) led the way against Holy Family with 16 points, making seven of her 12 attempts from the floor, while senior Peyton Steinman (Pittsfield, Mass.) narrowly missed a double-double with 14 points and nine rebounds. Freshman Melanie Hoyt (Stamford, N.Y.) scored 10 points with as many rebounds – she also added three blocks and two steals.
• The Hawks picked up a season-high 12 offensive rebounds against Holy Family and threw up a season-best nine blocks, but the Tigers reeled in 48 rebounds, the most given up by Saint Anselm since Dec. 1, 2018 against Merrimack.
• Saint Anselm is outscoring its opponents in the second and fourth quarters, but the Hawks are -23 in the first quarter and -25 in the final 10 minutes of regulation. On the season, Saint Anselm has a scoring margin of negative four points and is being outrebounded by an average of six boards per game.
• Steinman has made 40 of her 47 free throws on the season, ranking fourth in NCAA Division II in makes and eighth in attempts from the charity stripe. She needs 10 more free throws to set the career record for Saint Anselm. As a team, the Hawks rank 27th in the nation with a .782 team free throw percentage.
• Steinman ranks 12th all-time with 1,314 career points and can move to 10th all-time with 11 points against Stonehill on Sunday. She is eighth in team history with 13.7 points per game across a 96-game career on the Hilltop.
• Spinks has played north of 260 minutes so far this season, ranking in the top-25 among NCAA Division II women's basketball student-athletes. Playing in 35 or more minutes in all but one of her six games (28 minutes at Dominican (N.Y.)), Spinks is averaging 31.7 minutes per game in her 34 game career on the Hilltop.
• Corey Boilard is in his fifth year at Saint Anselm after joining the women's basketball program in 2017. In a nine-season career between the Hilltop and Johnson & Wales (R.I.), the Keene State graduate has posted 147 career victories and owns a .631 winning percentage.

THE SCOOP ON STONEHILL

• Ahead by just four points heading into the fourth quarter, Stonehill picked up a 68-66 victory over Daemen, the reigning NCAA Division II East Region Champions, on Tuesday in Easton, Mass. Senior Isabella Santoro led the way in her season debut, scoring 18 points with three rebounds.
• The Skyhawks shot 50% from three, making nine of their 18 attempts from beyond the arc, and controlled the glass to the tune of a 37-to-28 differential. Daemen, however, controlled the paint with 32 of the game's 50 points under the basket.
• Emily Bramanti, the cousin of Hawks sophomore Gia Bramanti (), is the team's leader with 19 points per game. She is trailed by Kayla Raymond, the Most Outstanding Player of the 2020 NE10 Championship, and her 13.5 points per contest. Megan Hill has picked up eight rebounds per game, on average, while chipping in with 2.7 blocks per tilt.
• Hill's 2.7 blocks per tilt is the 11th-best figure in NCAA Division II and her 7.7 defensive rebounds per game is 25th in the country. Bramanti is second in the NE10 in free-throw percentage (.929), fourth in assists per game (5.0) and is 10th in field-goal percentage (.413).
• Much like the Saint Anselm men's basketball team, who won 11 consecutive games up to and including the NE10 Championship game in 2020, the Skyhawks had a 12-game winning streak upon the cancellation of the 2020 NCAA Division II Championship. Both the Saint Anselm men and the Stonehill women saw their streak snapped in the first game of the 2021-22 campaign.
• Stonehill is led by Trisha Brown, who has won 388 games in her career for the Skyhawks. With a .686 winning percentage since joining the team in 2001, the five-time NE10 Coach of the Year is one of two active coaches in the conference with at least 360 career wins.

ALL-TIME vs. STONEHILL

• Stonehill leads the all-time series with Saint Anselm by a 65-27 margin. The Hawks and Skyhawks have met 92 games entering play, trailing Bentley (93 games) for Saint Anselm's most frequent opponent since the team's inception in 1976.
• The Hawks have lost six of the last eight games against Stonehill since Nov. 21, 2017. The Skyhawks were nationally ranked in three of those tilts and were the No. 25-ranked program in NCAA Division II when the teams met in the 2019-20 NE10 Championship game on Mar. 8, 2020.
• Stonehill came away with an 80-61 victory over Saint Anselm in the NE10 Championship, which was the Hawks first appearance in the title game since 1999. Shannon Ryan '20 scored 22 points with 13 rebounds for Saint Anselm and Steinman recorded 18 points with six rebounds, two blocks and two assists.