MANCHESTER, N.H. – The Saint Anselm College baseball team dropped its non-conference contest to cross-town rival Southern New Hampshire University by a 10-5 score on Wednesday.

The Hawks fall to 8-14 on the season while the nationally-ranked Penmen improve to 15-4. Saint Anselm has a quick turnaround as they open a four-game Northeast-10 Conference series at Bentley University, starting on Friday, Apr. 1 at 3:30 p.m.

Sophomore Nolan Elmore (Brentwood, N.H.) led the Hawks offense with three hits in four at-bats while driving in two runs. Graduate student Salvatore Pezzolla (East Greenbush, N.Y.) and senior Matt Collins (Beverly, Mass.) recorded two hits each and junior Brady Doran (Greenville, S.C.) drove in three runs for Saint Anselm.

Freshman Jared Reminder (Warwick, R.I.) made his first collegiate start for the Hawks. Reminder allowed six runs on nine hits in five innings pitched. He also struck out two while walking two. Sophomore Will Hunter (Middleton, Mass.), senior Andy Grygorcewicz (Northampton, Mass.), and freshman Zachary Abbott (Gloucester, Mass.) each recorded one inning of work in relief.

Southern New Hampshire opened the scoring on a sacrifice fly by Michael Larocca. Cristian Mercedes and Sam Henrie registered back-to-back singles to set up Larocca who got a ball deep enough into left
field to plate Mercedes for the game's opening run.

The Penmen added two more runs in the bottom of the third as Danniel Rivera registered a one-out walk and would steal second before being driven in on a Mercedes single. Mercedes later scored on a single by Larocca, pushing the score to 3-0 through three innings of play.

The Hawks cut their deficit to one in the top of the fourth inning as Pezzolla singled to lead off the frame before senior Kyle Maurice (Exeter, N.H.) and junior Mike Borrelli (Salisbury, Mass.) singled and walked to load the bases. Elmore would drive in two runs with a double to left field. The Penmen would make a pitching change and get a fly out before reloading the bases on a hit by pitch. However, a ground out would get Southern New Hampshire out of the jam, still holding a 3-2 lead.

Southern New Hampshire tacked on three runs in the bottom of the fifth inning as a Rivera leadoff single paved way for a two-run home run from Mercedes in the next at-bat. After getting two outs in the frame, Dakota Mulcay would launch another long ball for the Penmen in the inning, pushing the lead to 6-2.

The Penmen extended the lead to 10-2 in the bottom of the sixth as Idelson Taveras scored on a throwing error before a Henrie single scored Rivera. Mulcay later doubled home Mercedes and Henrie to cap the four run inning for the hosts.

Saint Anselm would put three runs up in its last three outs as Elmore singled and advanced to second on walk by freshman Danny Kent (Hanson, Mass.). Both would be brought home on the second home run of the season by Doran, making the score 10-5. The Hawks continued to threaten in the inning as Collins and Pezzolla recorded singles following the big fly but a strikeout would close the contest.