MANCHESTER, N.H. – The No. 20 Saint Anselm College women's lacrosse team heads to No. 23 University of New Haven in Northeast-10 Conference action on Saturday.

No. 20 SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE HAWKS (7-5, 5-4 NE10)
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No. 23 UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN CHARGERS (9-5, 5-5 NE10)
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The Hawks snapped a four-game losing skid with a 12-10 win over Franklin Pierce University on Apr. 20. With the win, Saint Anselm improves to 7-5 on the season and 5-4 in NE10 contests. After heading to New Haven, the Hawks host Bentley University on Wednesday, Apr. 27 for their final home contest of the regular season and Senior Day before heading to Stonehill College on Friday, Apr. 29 and the College of Saint Rose on Saturday, Apr. 30 to wrap up the regular season.

The Chargers come into play on Saturday as winners in three of their last four games, posting a 16-15 win over No. 18 Assumption University on Apr. 19. The team improves to 9-5 on the season and 5-5 in conference play. New Haven hosts the Hawks in its final home game of the regular season and will travel to Saint Michael's College and Bentley to conclude its regular season.

SCOUTING SAINT ANSELM

• Junior Lexi Palmisano (Woburn, Mass.) and sophomore Jess Sullivan (Wrentham, Mass.) netted four goals each to lead Saint Anselm in the win over Franklin Pierce.
• Palmisano becomes the first Saint Anselm student-athlete to reach 40 goals in a single season since Molly Beck '19 netted 40 in the spring of 2019.
• Palmisano leads the Hawks and is tied for sixth in the NE10 with 40 goals. Palmisano is third on the team in points (40).
• Sullivan is tied for second on the squad with 29 goals while ranking third in assists at 16, good for 45 points which is second most on the team.
• Senior Jenna Balboni (Billerica, Mass.) scored two goals and assisted on three others for a game-high five points against Franklin Pierce. Balboni is tied for second with Sullivan with 29 goals while ranking second on the team with 18 helpers. The senior leads the team in points at 47.
• Balboni needs just five points to move into the top-10 in all-time points. The senior currently sits at 140 career points and is chasing Erica Mattila '18, who is 10th with 144 points in her time on the Hilltop.
• Senior Annie Richards (Reading, Mass.) registered two assists against the Ravens, bringing her career total to 99. Richards needs just one helper to hit 100 career assists and would be the first Saint Anselm women's lacrosse student-athlete to reach that mark.
• Richards sits at 32 assists for the season and has tied her mark from last spring, which is third most in a single season in program history.
• The last time Saint Anselm had three or more 40 point scorers was in the 2019 season. Balboni and Richards were two of four Hawks to eclipse the 40-point mark that season.
• Senior Grace Young (Merrimack, N.H.) made nine saves in the cage for Saint Anselm, posting her seventh win of 2022. Young ranks fifth in the conference with a .442 save percentage. The senior owns an 11.76 goals-against average.

SCOUTING NEW HAVEN

• Reagan Bailey potted a game-high six goals in the New Haven win over Assumption including an up-goal with 3:57 left in regulation which proved to be the game-winning goal.
• Cyrpress Levitt and Cameryn Antler scored three goals each for the Chargers while Annie Acquavita found the back of the cage twice.
• Bailey leads the NE10 in scoring with 49 goals. She has added five helpers for 54 points, which is a team-high and sixth-most in the conference.
• Marina Skelly ranks second on New Haven with 42 goals scored, seven assists, and 49 points. Bailey and Skelly are the only two Chargers student-athletes over 33 points this season.
• Acquavita, Antler, and Levitt rank third, fourth, and fifth on the team in scoring. Antler and Levitt are tied for fourth on the squad with 21 points.
• Julia Astram leads New Haven with eight assists this season. In their last contest, the Chargers scored 16 unassisted goals. As a team, New Haven has scored 178 goals and have registered only 43 assists.
• Gabby Buscemi has started all 14 games in the cage this season for the Chargers. She has stopped 152 shots on goal this season, good for a .476 save percentage and a 12.11 goals-against average. Buscemi is third in the conference in save percentage while leading in total saves.

ALL-TIME vs. NEW HAVEN

• New Haven is 16-5 all-time against the Hawks, making Saturday's meeting the 22nd in the all-time series.
• The programs have not met since Apr. 27, 2019 in Manchester, N.H. The Chargers posted a 10-7 win in that contest, extending their winning streak over the Hawks to 14 games.
• Each meeting since Apr. 6, 2013 has been decided by four or less goals. That is nine consecutive matchups with the smallest margin of victory, one goal, happening three times in the nine-game stretch.