MANCHESTER, N.H. – The Saint Anselm College softball team opens its 2022 home calendar on Saturday, Mar. 26 against Adelphi with a doubleheader beginning at high noon at the South Athletic Fields.

SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE HAWKS (7-8, 0-0 NE10)
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ADELPHI UNIVERSITY PANTHERS (13-7, 0-0 NE10)
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PACE UNIVERSITY SETTERS (5-3, 0-0 NE10; record as of Friday, Mar. 25)
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Saint Anselm enters the games against Adelphi with a 7-8 overall record while Adelphi brings a 13-7 mark into play on Saturday. Saturday's slate of games is the Northeast-10 Conference opener for both programs and is a rematch of both the 2019 and 2021 league championship series, both won by Saint Anselm.

The reigning NCAA Division II East Region Champions, Saint Anselm has won three of their final five games on the team's second and final Florida trip of the season, logging a 6-0 shutout victory over Minnesota-Crookston in the most recent game played on Sunday, Mar. 20.

Adelphi has won nine of its last 10 games, including back-to-back shutouts of Saint Thomas Aquinas on Tuesday, Mar. 22. The Panthers outscored the Spartans by a commanding 16-0 margin, winning the first game of the doubleheader by an 11-0 margin in five innings.

Pace owns a 5-3 overall record entering Saturday's game at Southern New Hampshire. The Setters and Hawks will renew acquaintances for the first time since a 2-0 loss in the NE10 postseason on May 4, 2018. That loss preceded a dominant run for the Hawks through the 2018 NCAA Division II East Region Championship and culminated in an NCAA Division II National Championship series appearance.

SCOUTING SAINT ANSELM

• Saint Anselm enters the game with a 141-42 (.770) overall record since the start of the 2017 season. In that span, the Hawks have won two NCAA Division II East Region titles (2018, 2021), finished as the East Region runner-up (2019) and played in the National Championship series in 2018.
• Dating back to the 2017 season under Head Coach Jill Gagnon, the Hawks are 46-5 (.902) in games played at the South Athletic Fields. Saint Anselm enjoys a nine-game winning streak in the regular season when playing at home.
• Saint Anselm batters have been hit by 14 pitches to date, leading the NE10. The Hawks also rank third in fielding percentage (0.967) and are fourth in double plays (four), doubles (14), triples (1), and walks (34).
• Senior Bailey Cain (Wellington, Fla.) is having a breakout campaign for Saint Anselm, ranking 13th nationally with a 0.565 on-base percentage that leads the NE10. She is batting .455 on the year, rapping 15 hits in 33 at-bats and driving in a team-leading 13 runs batted in.
• Sophomore Haile Hicks (Jefferson, N.H.) has established herself as the ace of the Saint Anselm program, throwing seven complete games and posting an earned-run average of 1.46, ranking fifth in the NE10. Her walks-hits-innings pitched statistic is 1.08 (fifth in the league).
• The NE10 Pitcher of the Week, Hicks posted a 5-0 record during the latest Florida trip, racking up 34 innings pitched and allowing just three earned runs across her five starts last week. On the season, Hicks is holding opposing hitters to a .195 batting average.

SCOUTING ADELPHI

• The Panthers are projected to top the Northeast-10 Conference standings, according to the NE10 Preseason Coaches' Poll released in late January. Saint Anselm trailed by just three points in that poll, despite collecting eight out of a possible 13 first-place votes.
• The Panthers lost to Saint Anselm in the best-of-three NE10 Championship on May 14, 2021 and lost to the Hawks, 11-1, in their second game of the NCAA East Region Championship on the Hilltop. Adelphi was ousted from the tournament with a 5-3 loss to Georgian Court just one day later.
• Adelphi fired back-to-back perfect games in its most recent doubleheader against Saint Thomas Aquinas. Claire Fon faced the minimum 15 batters in the first game against the Spartans, throwing the first perfect game for the Panthers since the 2007 season. Lindsey Hibbs retired all 21 batters for Adelphi in the 5-0 clean sheet against Saint Thomas Aquinas.
• Ziara Shreter, a newcomer to the Adelphi roster, is the team leader with a .426 batting average. Courtney Wengryn is hitting .421 with six doubles and two home runs and a team-leading 18 runs batted in. Sophomore Alexa Sacripante has 21 hits in 62 at-bats (.339) for the Panthers.
• Fon and Hibbs have thrown the majority of their team's innings, striking out 132 batters between them while allowing just 17 walks.

• The Setters carry a 5-3 overall record into play in the Granite State this weekend. Pace will play two at Southern New Hampshire on Saturday before coming across town for two with the Hawks starting at noon on Sunday.
• Pace opened with a 3-0 record to start the season at the Spring Games in Florida, but then dropped three of their next four games and scored just three combined runs in those three defeats.
• Zoie Iverson is batting .450 on the year, leading Pace with nine hits. She also ranks second in the NE10 with a .560 on-base percentage, trailing only Saint Anselm's Cain.
• Brittany Walkingstick is the other student-athlete batting over .300 for the Setters, collecting seven hits in 23 at-bats. She is drawing 0.62 walks per game, partnering with Sammi Swenson and her league-leading 0.83 walks per tilt.
• Gisselle Garcia is the team's leader in earned-run average (1.40), throwing 30 innings with exactly 30 strikeouts to rank third in the league in ERA. Anna Acevedo and Mackenzie Garrick have also earned starts in the circle for Pace, combining for 27 innings and 15 earned runs allowed.

ALL-TIME vs. ADELPHI

• The Hawks are undefeated in each of the last five games against Adelphi, including four straight wins against the Panthers – all of those victories have come in NE10 or NCAA postseason play.
• Saint Anselm won its first NE10 postseason title on Mar. 4, 2019, downing Adelphi by a 4-3 margin at the South Athletic Fields. The Hawks then won their second league championship, taking down the Panthers in a best-of-three series that was decided in two games on May 14, 2021.
• The Hawks most recently won an 11-1 decision (five innings) in the NCAA postseason on May 20, 2021.
• The most recent tie for Saint Anselm came against Adelphi on Mar. 24, 2018, starting the unbeaten streak with that 7-7 darkness-shortened contest played on the campus of New Haven.

• Saint Anselm is 19-18 against the Setters in the 37-game team history.
• The Hawks won nine of the first 11 meetings since the first doubleheader on Apr. 25, 1998.
• Claudia Stabile has served as the Head Coach at Pace for all 37 games. She has been at the helm since 1982, the longest-tenured Head Coach across all NCAA divisions.