MANCHESTER, N.H. – The nationally-ranked Saint Anselm College men's lacrosse team takes on Southern New Hampshire University on Saturday, Mar. 12 at high noon. The game will be played at Penmen Stadium.

No. 9 SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE HAWKS (2-0, 0-0 NE10)
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RV SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY PENMEN (0-0, 0-0 NE10)
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Ranked ninth in NCAA Division II by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association, Saint Anselm logged a convincing 16-5 victory over visiting Georgian Court University on Saturday, Mar. 5 in the Grappone Stadium opener for the Hawks.

The Penmen are making their season debut on Saturday. Last season, Southern New Hampshire logged a 6-6 overall record and fell to No. 7 Adelphi in the NE10 Quarterfinals on May 1. The Hawks took down the Penmen in both games, the opener by a 17-10 margin and the game later in the season by a 15-3 final.

Saint Anselm finished the 2021 campaign as the No. 8-ranked team in the USILA poll with a 13-2 overall record and a 10-0 mark in NE10 contests. The Hawks made it to the NCAA Division II postseason for the first time in team history and picked up a victory in the First Round against nationally-ranked Seton Hill.

SCOUTING SAINT ANSELM

• Saint Anselm enters the game as one of just 11 NCAA Division II programs without a defeat so far. The Hawks also rank second nationally in scoring defense (5.00), second in caused turnovers per game (15.00), and third in scoring margin (10.00).
• Junior Jack Robinson (Wilbraham, Mass.) handed out a team-best seven assists for Saint Anselm against Georgian Court, who outshot the Lions by a commanding 74-19 margin. Finishing with a career-high eight points (1-7=8), no Hawks student-athlete has logged seven assists in a game since recent Athletics Hall of Fame inductee Brian O'Leary '01 against New Haven on May 1, 2000.
• Junior Jack Andrews (Cumberland, R.I.) led Saint Anselm with a career-high five goals versus the Lions while graduate student Sean Tomaszewski (Arlington, Mass.) put home four goals and reeled in eight ground balls. His four goals matched a career-high mark that was also set against Georgian Court (03/11/20). Senior Kyle Fisher (Nashua, N.H.) matched a career-high with five ground balls
• Senior CJ Hart (Reading, Mass.) made six saves through three-plus quarters of action against Georgian Court. He was helped out on defense as the Hawks picked up 48 of the game's 64 ground balls – Saint Anselm also caused 13 turnovers on defense.
• Hart leads NCAA Division II in goals-against average (3.86) and his 68.4% save percentage is third in the country and second in the NE10.
• 2022 is the seventh year as the head coach of the men's lacrosse program for Michael Sciamanna, who owns a 52-26 (.667) overall record. Saint Anselm finished in a tie for second in the Northeast-10 Conference Preseason Coaches' Poll, announced by the league in late January.

SCOUTING THE PENMEN

• The first three games of the season for Southern New Hampshire will be played at home. The team's first road game of the season will be on Mar. 26 at Le Moyne, the reigning NCAA Division II National Champions.
• Paul Calkins, the long-time Head Coach at Southern New Hampshire, is set to begin his 34th season at the helm of the Penmen program. The team was selected to finish sixth in the NE10 Preseason Coaches' Poll.
• Two of the team's four All-Conference selections return to the fold in 2022, including sophomore Jack Terrones and junior Gennaro Marra – the duo was also named to the All-Rookie Team. Senior Chris Valentine also returns, tying with Terrones for the team lead in goal scoring (26).
• Southern New Hampshire was ranked third in the final New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association regional poll in 2021. The Penmen are receiving one vote in this week's USILA national poll.

ALL-TIME vs. SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE

• Saint Anselm has won 19 of the first 29 meetings against Southern New Hampshire dating back to the program's inception in 1994.
• The Hawks own a six-game winning streak over SNHU, scoring at least 15 goals in each of those tilts. The Penmen have reached 10 goals just once, doing so in the first meeting between both teams in 2021.
• Out of the 10 losses by Saint Anselm against the Penmen, just three (the first three meetings in team history) have been by double digits and the rest have been decided by five or fewer goals.