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PREVIEW: Baseball at No. 16 Southern New Hampshire

4/9/2021 12:45:00 PM

MANCHESTER, N.H. – The Saint Anselm College baseball team will play its next four games against the nationally-ranked Penmen from Southern New Hampshire University. The series begins at Penmen Field on Friday, Apr. 9 at 1 p.m.

Saint Anselm is fresh off a convincing 9-4 victory over Franklin Pierce, the No. 23-ranked team in NCAA Division II. The Penmen will be playing their first games on campus since May 25, 2019 when it fell to NYIT in the NCAA East Super Regional that it hosted.

No fans will be permitted to attend any of the baseball contests hosted by Southern New Hampshire University. Live Stats and Live Video are available for each of the four contests by clicking here.

SCOUTING THE HAWKS
  • With its victory over Franklin Pierce on Wednesday, the Hawks snap a 17-game losing streak to the Ravens, improving to 6-7 overall on the year while the Ravens, ranked No. 23 in NCAA Division II according to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers' Association national poll, dropped to 9-3 on the season.
  • Saint Anselm had most recently downed Franklin Pierce, then ranked No. 26 by the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper, on Mar. 27, 2014, collecting an 11-10 victory in the process in what was the program's last victory over a nationally-ranked opponent. The five-run win was the largest by the Hawks over the Ravens since May 2, 2012, a 10-5 win over No. 15 Franklin Pierce in the regular-season finale.
  • Junior Kyle Maurice (Exeter, N.H.) slugged a two-run home run off the right field pole in the top of the first, taking advantage of an early fielding miscue by the Ravens on the way to a 2-0 lead. The Hawks tacked on three more in the top of the third as a two-run ground-rule double by junior Mike Pierro (North Andover, Mass.) preceded an RBI single by Maurice.
  • The Hawks added insurance in the top of the eighth as sophomore Brady Doran (Stony Brook, N.Y.) hit a two-run double to right center that was followed up by an RBI single from junior Matt Collins (Beverly, Mass.).
  • One more run came around to score in the top of the ninth inning as a sacrifice fly by senior Max Silverman (Westford, Mass.) drove in classmate Salvatore Pezzolla (East Greenbush, N.Y.), who led off the ninth with a walk.
  • Pierro now enjoys a seven-game hitting streak while Maurice and Pezzolla have now reached base safely in each of their team's 13 games on the year.
  • Freshman Matthew Michel (Haverhill, Mass.) fired seven innings while striking out seven batters against the Ravens to earn his second career victory. Classmate Will Hunter (Middleton, Mass.) locked the game down for the Hawks in the eighth and ninth innings, yielding just one hit while fanning two Ravens batters.
PREVIEWING THE PENMEN
  • Southern New Hampshire eased its way to a four-game sweep of Stonehill to open its season in late March. The Penmen picked up victories by scores of 10-2, 3-1, 8-0 and 7-4. Redshirt junior Dakota Mulcay earned National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) East Region Hitter of the Week honors, going 6-for-10 with three home runs and eight runs driven in.
  • Graduate student Wesley Tobin received NCBWA East Region Pitcher of the Week honors, striking out 11 batters and yielding just two hits in his team's shutout victory on Mar. 27. In 38 career appearances for the Penmen, he owns a 2.86 earned-run average with 168 strikeouts in 154.1 innings.
  • The Penmen own a 4-0 record to begin the season for the first time since the 2018 season. Posting a 12-4 record last season, the Hawks have not posted fewer than 31 victories in a season since the 2011 campaign that saw the team go 25-22.
  • Head Coach Scott Loiseau has dramatically transformed the fortunes of the Penmen program upon his arrival to campus in 2008. His team has posted a 253-83 (.753) record from 2012-18 and has won over 300 games in total in his head coaching career.
ALL TIME vs. SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE
  • The Penmen have won each of the last 20 games over Saint Anselm and lead the all-time series by a 53-31 margin.
  • The most recent Saint Anselm win came on Apr. 4, 2013, a 6-3 victory. In 2019, the Penmen took all three games via scores of 3-1, 13-2 and 6-1.
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