MANCHESTER, N.H. – The nationally-ranked Saint Anselm College field hockey team travels to New Haven, Conn. this Saturday for a 1 p.m. tilt with Southern Connecticut State University.

No. 8 SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE HAWKS (4-2, 2-1 NE10)
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Saint Anselm scored three times in the first quarter and never looked back on Wednesday, picking up a 4-2 victory over visiting Saint Michael's College in Northeast-10 Conference play. Saturday's road game will be the last in the month of September with the Hawks hitting the road next on Monday, Oct. 4.

Southern Connecticut State enters with a 2-3 overall record and matches Saint Anselm with a 2-1 record in league play. Last time out, the Owls picked up a 3-2 victory over Mercy (N.Y.) on the road, just four days after posting a narrow 2-1 loss at American International.

Fans traveling to Jess Dow Field are expected to familiarize themselves with Southern Connecticut State's Spectator Policy.

SCOUTING SAINT ANSELM

• With the victory at home against Saint Michael's on Wednesday, Saint Anselm snapped a brief two-game losing skid. Junior Maeve Murphy (Scituate, Mass.) picked up two goals in the game's first 9:07, elevating the Hawks to a 2-0 lead. The team never looked back, opening up a 4-1 lead in the fourth quarter and only conceding a late marker to the Purple Knights prior to the end of regulation.
• Hawks netminder Sidney Falterer (Fairfield, Conn.) made two saves on four shots, picking up the win in goal. Senior Maddison LeBeau (Westbrook, Maine) earned her first career defensive save as well in her team's victory – it was the team's first defensive save of the 2021 season and the first for the Hawks since Sarah Bagley (North Andover, Mass.) posted one against American International on Oct. 5, 2019.
• Murphy is one of just five student-athletes in the NE10 with double-digit point totals on the season. To date, she has four goals and two assists for 10 points (4-2=10). She is tied for the league lead with two game-winning goals on the season.
• Mackenzie McConnell ranks second in the NE10 with an 0.97 goals-against average. She has logged a 2-1 record for the Hawks across three games so far as a sophomore backstop, splitting time evenly with Falterer.
• Senior Carly LaCasse (Sagamore Beach, Mass.) became the ninth student-athlete in team history to reach 50 career points, doing so last time out against Saint Michael's. Since joining the team in 2018, she has struck for 21 goals and added eight assists for 50 points (21-8=50). She needs just three points to jump all the way up to seventh place in team annals.
• LaCasse has scored seven game-winning goals in her career, ranking third all-time behind Allia Connolly '18 and Michelle Lemelin '20 who each scored 10 in their careers.

SCOUTING SCSU

• Southern Connecticut State opened its season with back-to-back games at the Mansfield University Tournament. The Owls were blanked by Kutztown on Saturday, Sept. 4 before falling to the hosts by a 3-0 margin on Sunday.
• To open NE10 play on Sunday, Sept. 12, the Owls knocked off Franklin Pierce by a 3-2 margin.
• After not firing a single shot in the team's 7-0 season-opening loss to Kutztown, the team tallied a season-high 11 shots at Mercy (N.Y.) last time out.
• Kaitlyn Bourque and Josephine Nolet lead SCSU with two goals for four points (2-0=4). Alyssa Haskins has registered a goal and an assist.
• Janelle Ward has made 72 saves with a save percentage of .818. She leads the NE10 in saves (72) and is fourth in save percentage (.818).
• SCSU has logged four defensive saves in just five games to date – Karen Sicha has two and Megan Habakangas has the other pair.

ALL-TIME vs. SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE

• Saint Anselm has won each of the last six games against SCSU, tying the all-time series at 13 with a 5-0 victory over the Owls on Oct. 26, 2019.
• The Hawks have won eight of the last 10 meetings, including a 7-0 victory over Southern Connecticut State on Oct. 6, 2018 that stands as the largest margin of victory in the series.
• The first meeting occurred on Sept. 9, 2001, a 4-1 victory for Saint Anselm that was the very first in program history. The Hawks had started off the 2001 season with back-to-back shutout losses against Mercyhurst and Assumption before potting four goals against the Owls.
• Meg Coleman '05 scored the team's first goal seven minutes into the game, and added another four minutes later as the Hawks erupted for four first half goals on the way to victory.