MANCHESTER, N.H. – The nationally-ranked Saint Anselm College men's lacrosse team will take on the Wildcats from Wilmington (Del.) University in a neutral site contest on Wednesday, Mar. 30.

The game, featuring the No. 12-ranked Hawks, will be played at Stagg Field on the campus of Springfield College at 2 p.m.

No. 12 SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE HAWKS (3-2, 1-2 NE10)
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WILMINGTON COLLEGE WILDCATS (4-3, 1-0 CACC)
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Saint Anselm won its first three games of the season before recently falling to No. 1 Le Moyne and No. 3 Adelphi. The Hawks hadn't lost two or more games in a row since April 10-13, 2019 and saw a 19-game regular season winning streak come to an end with the loss to the top-ranked Dolphins.

Wilmington made its collegiate debut on the lacrosse field in 2018 and will be competing against Saint Anselm for the first time on Wednesday. The Wildcats are 4-3 overall and come into the game with a three-game winning streak, defeating Saint Michael's, Lake Erie and Caldwell in that order.

SCOUTING SAINT ANSELM

• Saint Anselm took on Adelphi, ranked No. 3 in the country, last time out and fell by a 15-14 margin. The Hawks had a chance to tie the game in the final 30-plus seconds of play, but a shot was denied by the Adelphi backstop.
• Junior Jack Robinson (Wilbraham, Mass.), graduate student Sean Tomaszewski (Arlington, Mass.) and sophomore Noah Larsen (Northborough, Mass.) led the way for Saint Anselm against Adelphi with four-point performances. Tomaszewski paced the team with three goals while Robinson and Larsen recorded two goals and two assists.
• Senior Kyle Fisher (Nashua, N.H.) had four caused turnovers and three ground balls, earning NE10 Defensive Player of the Week honors on Monday while junior Ryan Slattery (North Andover, Mass.) forced three miscues by Adelphi, reeling in four ground balls. Graduate student Will Palmer (Concord, Mass.) collected five ground balls for the Hawks in the midfield.
• Robinson ranks sixth in NCAA Division II with 2.8 assists per game while Fisher is 12th nationally in caused turnovers per game (2.2). Senior netminder CJ Hart (Reading, Mass.), who made 13 saves against Adelphi, is 12th nationally with an 8.72 goals-against average – he owns a 20-6 career record for Saint Anselm in goal.
• As a team, the Hawks limit opponents to just a 72.4% success rate on clearances to rank fifth nationally. The team's 11.4 caused turnovers per game is the ninth-finest average in NCAA Division II.
• Sophomore Nick Larsen (Northborough, Mass.) ranks 15th all-time with 36 career assists through just two seasons with the Hawks. He needs just five to crack into the program's top-10 list for helpers.
• Among active Northeast-10 Conference coaches, Mike Sciamanna ranks third with a .654 winning percentage (53-28 all-time).

SCOUTING WILMINGTON (Del.)

• Wilmington earned three first-place votes and 38 total points to finish second in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Preseason Coaches' Poll in early February. The team made its first appearance in the CACC championship game in 2021, falling to Chestnut Hill in the postseason finale.
• The Wildcats have fired at least 40 shots in all but one of their games on the season, generating a season-low 32 shot attempts against No. 11 Pace on Mar. 11.
• Sophomore Logan Stinson is the team leader with 18 goals and 25 points, reeling in 15 ground balls. Giovanni Marino is second with 15 goals as four student-athletes have at least 20 points on the young season.
• Jason Roland has earned all seven starts for the Wildcats, posting a 10.54 goals-against average and a save percentage of 52.6%.
• Anton Mackey has won 62-of-106 face-offs for Wilmington while Tucker Plasse has claimed victories in 39 of his 83 draws.
• Christian Zwickert was named the first Head Coach in team history in January 2017 and has coached the program to 76 victories. He formerly coached lacrosse programs at Wesley and Immaculata.

ALL-TIME vs. WILMINGTON (Del.)

• Saint Anselm and Wilmington have not yet played a game against one another.
• Including Wilmington, Saint Anselm has played all but 12 of the 31 teams in the North Region of NCAA Division II.
• The Hawks have yet to play Alderson Broaddus, Caldwell, Davis & Elkins, District of Columbia, D'Youville, Felician, Lake Erie, Mercyhurst, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Wilmington (Del.), Wheeling and Walsh.