MANCHESTER, N.H. – The Saint Anselm College women's basketball team cruised to an 89-51 win on Wednesday night, defeating Franklin Pierce University in convincing fashion.

Scoring a season-high 89 points, Saint Anselm improves to 13-11 on the year with a 9-8 record versus Northeast-10 Conference opponents. The Ravens fall to 10-11 overall and 6-9 against the league.

Sophomore Gabby Turco (Wildwood, N.J.) and freshman Melanie Hoyt (Stamford, N.Y.) tied for the game-high with 18 points each. Senior Peyton Steinman (Pittsfield, Mass.) scored 11 points and matched a career-high with 18 boards, marking her fifth double-double of the season.

Steinman's 18 rebounds are the most by a Saint Anselm student-athlete this season. She now has 714 career rebounds for Saint Anselm, becoming just the 12th student-athlete in team history to reach 700 in a career.

Sophomore Olivia Bonee (West Hartford, Conn.) posted a career-high five points for Saint Anselm while Hoyt reached a career-high in point scoring. Junior McKenzy Ouellette (West Newfield, Maine) hauled in five rebounds, establishing a career-high mark.

Saint Anselm was 31-for-69 from the field in the contest, good for a 44.9% make rate and was 13-for-28 from beyond the arc, sinking treys at a 46.4% percentage.

The Ravens jumped out to an early 7-0 lead as Rylee Skinner got a pair of layups to fall and Ines Gimenez Monserrat poured home a three, all within the first 1:15 of the game.

The Hawks took a 30-second timeout and never looked back, outscoring the visitors by a 17-6 margin to close out the opening 10 minutes of play. Freshman Katie Lemanski (Haymarket, Va.) converted a pair of free throws which tied the score at 11 with 3:17 to play before Steinman and Turco combined for six of the quarter's final eight points, giving the Hawks a 17-13 lead at the end of the first quarter.

Saint Anselm opened an 11-point lead just after the halfway point of the second quarter as Steinman produced a pair of free throws, giving the Hawks a 29-18 lead. Lisa Sulejmani and Skinner netted five consecutive points for the Ravens who cut the Hawks lead to seven but seven-point swing in 1:14 from Hoyt, Turco, and Ouellette reestablished the Saint Anselm double-digit lead, taking a 36-24 lead at the half.

After the teams traded baskets to open the second half, Saint Anselm would hold Franklin Pierce off the scoreboard from 7:11 to 2:32 of the third quarter. During that stretch, the Hawks managed to extend their lead to 24 before Skinner ended the scoring drought with a layup. Saint Anselm outscored Franklin Pierce by a 26-10 margin in the third quarter, using a 21-to-2 scoring run at one point, and took a 62-34 lead to the fourth.

The strong Hawks shooting, which was 66.67% in the fourth quarter alone, managed to give Saint Anselm a 42-point lead at one point in the final frame. Saint Anselm had scored 19 of the game's 20 points via 7-for-7 shooting across a 4:52 span near the midpoint of the period.

The Hawks closed out the contest by an 89-51 score, sweeping the regular season series against Franklin Pierce and match a series-high scoring differential of 38 points. Saint Anselm is now 39-23 against the Ravens all-time.

Saint Anselm concludes its home regular season schedule on Saturday, Feb. 19 against Saint Michael's at 1:30 p.m. The Hawks will honor their senior class with a pregame ceremony.