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Jackie Gaumer

PREVIEW: No. 3 field hockey at No. 10 Stonehill

9/14/2021 10:00:00 AM

MANCHESTER, N.H. – The nationally-ranked Saint Anselm College field hockey team looks to remain undefeated on the season as it travels to No. 10 Stonehill College for a 7 p.m. contest on Tuesday under the lights at W.B. Mason Stadium.

No. 3 SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE HAWKS (3-0, 1-0 NE10)
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No. 10 STONEHILL COLLEGE SKYHAWKS (2-1, 1-0 NE10)
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The Hawks, ranked No. 3 in NCAA Division II, take on a Stonehill outfit that finds itself ranked 10th in the country, according to the National Field Hockey Coaches' Association Preseason Coaches' Poll. Saint Anselm was 6-1 against nationally-ranked opponents in 2019, falling only to top-ranked West Chester in the NCAA Division II Field Hockey National Championship game.

Saint Anselm has won 24 of its last 27 games dating back to Sept. 5, 2019 and owns a winning streak of 10 games against Northeast-10 Conference opponents. The Skyhawks are 2-1 this season, but have played No. 2-ranked East Stroudsburg and No. 1 West Chester to date. Most recently, Stonehill edged St. Thomas Aquinas by a 1-0 margin on Saturday.

Spectators looking to attend the Stonehill home game are expected to familiarize themselves with the institution's spectator policy.

SCOUTING SAINT ANSELM

  • Senior Sarah Bagley (North Andover, Mass.) scored the game-winning goal in overtime on Saturday, helping the Hawks to a 1-0 victory over Pace University on Saturday. The game was the first NE10 game on the slate for either team.
  • Sophomore Mackenzie McConnell (Concord Township, Maine) earned the victory in goal for Saint Anselm, making two saves for her first collegiate shutout. In three career games, she has conceded just two goals for a goals-against average of 0.64 – she also owns a perfect 3-0 record to date.
  • Senior Carly LaCasse (Sagamore Beach, Mass.) is 15th among active NCAA Division II student-athletes with 0.41 goals per game. She ranks ninth all-time in team history with 47 career points (20-7=47) and her seven career game-winning goals ranks third all-time.
  • The tandem of McConnell and freshman Sidney Falterer (Fairfield, Conn.) has posted a team goals-against average of 0.65 and a save percentage of 85.7%. McConnell has the team's lone shutout, accomplishing that feat in the last game against Pace.
  • The Hawks have outshot their opponents this season by a combined margin of 54-to-23. Saint Anselm has conceded just two markers so far in 2021 while scoring 11 goals of their own en route to a 3-0 record heading into Tuesday evening's game.

SCOUTING THE SKYHAWKS

  • Stonehill owns a 2-1 record this season. The team opened against two tough customers in No. 2-ranked East Stroudsburg before battling top-ranked West Chester – Saint Anselm opposed the same duo in the National Semifinals and National Championship, respectively, in 2019.
  • Against Saint Thomas Aquinas on Saturday, the Hawks used a goal from Emily Ledoux in the game's 51st minute to edge the Spartans, 1-0, on the road. The Skyhawks outshot STAC by a dominant 18-to-3 margin but needed some late-game heroics from the senior midfielder.
  • Sophomore Raegan Hickey has had a hand in all four Stonehill goals on the season, handing out two goals and two assists for four points (2-2=4) through the team's first three games of the year.
  • Head Coach Annie Hansbury, a native of Plaistow, N.H., is a 2012 graduate of the Hawks' former NE10 rivals, UMass Lowell. She led Stonehill to a 13-7 record to date and as a student-athlete for the River Hawks, she made four consecutive appearances in the NCAA Division II National Championship game.

ALL TIME vs. STONEHILL

  • The Hawks trail the all-time series against Stonehill by a 24-5 margin, but Saint Anselm has enjoyed four wins across the last five games played since Oct. 12, 2016.
  • Stonehill won 20 games in a row from Oct. 12, 2001 (the first meeting in Saint Anselm's varsity history) through Oct. 9, 2013.
  • The Hawks and Skyhawks played an unofficial spring game last semester with Saint Anselm coming out on top by a 1-0 score with the help of a LaCasse marker in the game's second quarter.
  • The first-ever win in the all-time series for Saint Anselm came on Sept. 30, 2014, a 3-1 defeat of the fourth-ranked Skyhawks. Colleen Sears '16 tallied a goal and an assist and then-sophomore goalkeeper Katherine Sears '17 made 13 saves in the winning effort.
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