MANCHESTER, N.H. – The Saint Anselm College baseball team heads to the USA Baseball Training Complex in Cary, N.C. for four games from Friday, Mar. 3 through Sunday, Mar. 5.

The Hawks will battle nationally-ranked West Chester University and Saint Thomas Aquinas College on Friday in a doubleheader, starting at 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Saint Anselm will then meet Dominican University (N.Y.) on Saturday, Mar. 4 at 12:30 p.m. and conclude the trip on Sunday, Mar. 5 against D'Youville College at 10 a.m.

Live Video will be available for each game here.

SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE HAWKS (1-9, 0-0 NE10)
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No. 7/10 WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY GOLDEN RAMS (6-1, 0-0 PSAC)
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SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE SPARTANS (1-3, 0-0 ECC)
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DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY (N.Y.) CHARGERS (1-5, 0-0 CACC)
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D'YOUVILLE COLLEGE SAINTS (2-3, 0-0 ECC)
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The Hawks dropped three games to nationally-regarded East Stroudsburg University on Feb. 26 and Feb. 27, pushing the team to 1-9 through the month of February. Saint Anselm will head to Assumption University for a pair of non-conference doubleheaders on Saturday, Mar. 11 and Sunday, Mar. 12 following the games in Cary, N.C.

The Golden Rams, who are ranked seventh in the most recent National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Division II National Poll and are 10th in the Collegiate Baseball Newspapaer National Poll, posted a 6-1 record through February, capping the month with a 6-1 win over the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.

The Spartans grabbed a season-opening win over Le Moyne College on Feb. 24 but have dropped their last three to Le Moyne, Franklin Pierce University, and Southern New Hampshire University, bringing them to 1-3 on the 2023 season.

The Chargers also opened their season with a win, posting a 5-4 result over Clarion before dropping each of their last five games including on Mar. 1 at Mount Olive by an 11-1 score. Dominican enters its trip to Cary, N.C. with a 1-5 record.

The Saints swept a doubleheader from Mercyhurst University, taking both games by 9-6 and 13-12 scores on Feb. 26. The team is 2-3 on the season and will open its trip to the USA Baseball Training Complex with a pair of games against Dominican on Friday, Mar. 3.

SCOUTING SAINT ANSELM

• Senior Mike Borrelli (Salisbury, Mass.) leads the Hawks offense with 38 at-bats this season, starting in all 10 games. Borrelli has collected six hits in 2023 and needs just four more to reach the 100-career hits mark.
• Junior Zack Clough (Newbury, Mass.) leads Saint Anselm with eight hits and is tied for second on the roster with five runs batted in, matching Borrelli. Clough is batting a team-best .229 through the first 10 games of the season.
• Senior Brady Doran (Seneca, S.C.) has recorded seven hits in 2023, tied for second on the roster, while leading the Hawks with six RBIs.
• Sophomore Adam Betty (Lowell, Mass.), junior Dallas Vaughan (Haverhill, Mass.), and senior Avery Mosseau (Bedford, N.H.) have drawn three starts apiece for the Hawks on the mound. Vaughan leads the pitching staff with 13.2 innings pitched and 17 strikeouts.
• Senior Taylor French (Goffstown, N.H.) has made four appearances on the bump for Saint Anselm, totaling 6.0 innings pitched. Juniors Matthew Michel (Haverhill, Mass.), Hunter Harris (Altamont, N.Y.), Will Hunter (Middleton, Mass.), and senior John Donovan (Lowell, Mass.) have all made three appearances each for the Hawks this season.
• Senior Will Panarello (Barrington, R.I.) leads the Hawks defense with a 1.000 fielding percentage on a team-high 51 chances. The team is operating with a 0.931 fielding percentage.

ABOUT THE OPPOSITION

• The Golden Rams registered a 36-15 record in 2022, advancing all the way to the NCAA Division II National Championship semifinals. The team fell to the eventual national champion in North Greenville by an 8-5 score.
• Kyle Lazer and Luke Cantwell were named to the All-PSAC East rosters last season. Lazer also collected All-Atlantic Region Second Team honors while Cantwell was an honorable mention. Mike LaRosa, the ABCA/ATEC Atlantic Region Coach of the Year, enters his third year at the helm of the baseball program
• The Spartans claimed a 23-23 record in 2022 and saw their season come to a close in the ECC Baseball Championship, falling to Molloy in the semifinals.
• Gregory DiGiaro and Kyle Lagrutta returned from the 2022 roster and were named to the All-ECC First Team. Andrew Guerra and Aaron Dona are back for the Spartans as well after claiming All-Conference Second Team honors last season.
• The Chargers posted a 15-35 record last season and fell to Felician University in the First Round of the CACC Baseball Championship by scores of 7-2 and 6-1.  
• Rick Giannetti is in his 34th season as the head coach of the Chargers baseball program.
• The Saints dropped their first two games of the USCAA Small College World Series, closing the season at 14-22 overall.
• Chris AuClair and Ethan Hammond were both All-ECC First Team selections and are returning for the Saints in 2023. Jeremy Glinski was named the USCAA Player of the Year last spring.

ALL-TIME vs. WEST CHESTER, SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS, DOMINICAN, D'YOUVILLE

• This will be the second meeting all-time between the Hawks and Golden Rams. West Chester claimed a shutout win in the first contest which came on Feb. 20, 2022.
• The Hawks and Spartans will be battling for the 12th time in program history and will be meeting for the first time since the 2017 season.
• Saint Anselm and Dominican played a four-game series in 2022 with all four games going to the Hawks. This will be the ninth meeting between the programs all-time.
• Saint Anselm and D'Youville are meeting for the first time all-time.