MANCHESTER, N.H. – The Saint Anselm College baseball team will host Assumption University on Wednesday, Mar. 31 for the team's home opener at Sullivan Park. First pitch is scheduled for high noon.

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Saint Anselm had a four-game series with Assumption postponed last week, but the Purple Knights of Saint Michael's College found their way onto the Hawks schedule for a single game - the Hawks claimed a 6-3 victory in the nine-inning, neutral site affair in Northborough, Mass.

Fans of any kind, including students, staff, faculty, will not be admitted to Sullivan Park for the doubleheader on Wednesday.

Live Stats and Live Video of Wednesday's home opener against the Greyhounds will be provided on the NE10 Now Network.

SCOUTING THE HAWKS

• Saint Anselm combined to strike out 18 batters from Saint Michael's College on Saturday to claim a 6-3 victory at the New England Baseball Complex. Seniors Ryan Schworer (Medfield, Mass.) and Will Conaton (Windham, N.H.) struck out nine apiece in the nine-inning game, combing to post the second-most strikeouts in a single game in team history.
• Powering the squad at the plate is junior Kyle Maurice (Exeter, N.H.), who holds a .409 batting average over six games. He has recorded three doubles and three home runs while also bringing home 14 runs. Maurice's 14 runs batted in is tied with Matt Alifano of Adelphi for the lead in the NE10.
• Classmate Dan Baker (Reading, Mass.) has also played in all six games, batting .400 and matching his teammate with three home runs. Baker and Maurice's batting averages rank in the top-15 of the Northeast-10 Conference. Sophomore Mike Borrelli (Salisbury, Mass.) leads the squad in hits with 10 and home runs with four. His 10 hits are tied for fourth in the entire NE10 with Dean DePreta of Pace and Tim Feliz of Adelphi.
• Four Hawks student-athletes sit in the top five of the NE10 home run category, with Borrelli's four atop the league.
• Freshman Zack Clough (Newbury, Mass.), a freshman outfielder, earned NE10 Rookie of the Week honors to open the season after posting six hits in the season-opening four-game series with American International. So far in 2021, Clough has recorded a .333 batting average, scoring a team-high 10 runs and seven hits.
• Senior Salvatore Pezzolla (East Greenbush, N.Y.) has hit a team-high four doubles so far this season, which is tied for second in the conference. He is ranked seventh in the nation in doubles per game (0.67).
• Sophomore pitcher Dylan Bedder (New Providence, N.J.) was named to the NE10 Weekly Honor Roll on Mar. 15 for his contributing performance. He struck out a career-high eight batters and limited the Yellow Jackets to just three hits in his season debut. Conaton is also one of the Hawks starting pitchers in 2021, recording a 2.81 earned run average over three appearances. Over 16 innings pitched, he has struck out 25 batters, allowing only eight runs in the process. Conaton is one of the top three student-athletes in the NE10 to have thrown more than 15 innings while also leading the league with 25 strikeouts.
• On the mound for the Hawks in game one will be freshman Matthew Michel (Haverhill, Mass.), who is 1-0 on the season after picking up the win against American International on Mar. 13. He threw one and two thirds innings, allowing three hits in relief. Head Coach Jerod Edmondson '06 will determine game two pitcher depending on the first contest's result.
• Schworer has also appeared in three games, earning starts against the Yellow Jackets and the Purple Knights. Maurice has earned 38 putouts on the season, ranking seventh in the conference.  He also has posted two assists.
• As a team, the Hawks have the 14th-best batting average in the country as of Mar. 29, totaling a .333 average. Saint Anselm also has the second-best mark in home runs per game at 2.50 behind West Chester's 2.88.

CHECKING OUT THE GREYHOUNDS

• Assumption will play its 2021 season opener against Saint Anselm on Wednesday, looking to start the season off strong after an extended off-season.
• The Greyhounds finished 5-8-1 in the 2020 season prior to the cancellation of spring sports, playing all of their games in North Carolina or Florida to open the year. On Mar. 3, the Greyhounds earned the fourth spot in the Northeast Division of the Northeast-10 Conference Preseason Coaches' Poll.
• Matt Schneider hit .324 at the plate, which led all Greyhounds last season - he was named NE10 Player of the Week once. Schneider and his classmate, Matt Lonardo, both finished the 2020 season with a team-leading three home runs while Jake Hamel led Assumption with 14 runs batted in.
• On the mound, Cole Chudoba posted a 0.66 earned run average over four games and 27.1 innings pitched. He finished the season with a 3-0 record and struck out a total of 26 batters.

ALL-TIME vs. ASSUMPTION

• The Greyhounds hold a 70-47-1 record against the Hawks since both teams played each other for the first time on May 1, 1982. That day, the Hawks fell 9-1 in game one and then 15-2 in the second contest.
• Assumption has claimed nine straight victories over the Hawks since Apr. 22, 2017. The Hawks' last victories over the Greyhounds came back in 2017 on Mar. 9 in a neutral site contest down in Winter Park, Fla., when the team claimed an 8-2 win.
• Seven of the last eight games between Assumption and Saint Anselm have been decided by a margin of five or fewer runs.