MANCHESTER, N.H. – The Saint Anselm College field hockey team won their fifth straight game on Saturday by a final score of 5-0 over Molloy. They have now won nine of their last 10 games. Prior to the game, the Hawks celebrated nine seniors as part of Senior Day:
Abby Breznyak (Oakland, Maine),
Maddie Davis (Exeter, N.H.),
Sidney Falterer (Fairfield, Conn.),
Chloe Kapsambelis (Merrimack, N.H.),
Amanda Lewandowski (Franklin, Mass.),
Grace Michael (Hampton Falls, N.H.),
Ava Rayfield (Dover-Foxcroft, Maine),
Stephanie Sutton-Brown (Ashby, Mass.), and
Sarah Woods (Belfast, Maine).
This group of seniors has led the Hawks to a 57-20 record over the past four seasons. The Saint Anselm field hockey class of 2025 helped last year's squad win the Northeast-10 Tournament Championship, the second in program history, and has also led the Hawks to two straight NCAA Tournaments. Additionally, this senior class has helped the program earn a consistent ranking in the NFHCA national poll the last four years, ranking as high as number three nationally.
UP NEXT
- Saint Anselm goes on the road one final time in the regular season on Tuesday, October 29th for a 3:30 p.m. conference matchup at Mercy in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
Score: No. 10 Saint Anselm 5, Molloy 0
Records: No. 10 Saint Anselm (12-4, 9-2 NE10); Molloy (2-13, 1-10 NE10)
Location: Manchester, N.H. (Grappone Stadium)
Date: Saturday, October 26th, 2024
Attendance: 260
HOW IT HAPPENED:
- Saint Anselm took control early with back-to-back penalty corners in the first minute of the game. Davis, Lewandowski, and Sutton-Brown each posted a shot attempt off of those corners.
- Just over seven minutes in, Sutton-Brown opened the scoring by tapping home a rebound that came off of Lions goaltender Kayla Lipscomb to give the Hawks a 1-0 advantage.
- Saint Anselm maintained possession throughout the next four-minutes and registered four more shots on goal. Lipscomb came up with big saves to keep her team down by just a goal.
- The Hawks broke through again before the end of the first quarter, scoring off a penalty corner with Lewandowski setting up Davis, who slammed her shot into the back of the cage to make it 2-0.
- Despite the first few minutes of action in the second quarter taking place in the midfield, Saint Anselm earned the first scoring opportunity with a penalty corner at the 18:32 mark. Davis fired it into play, which led to junior Maggie Burchill (Braintree, Mass.) finding herself in the perfect position to score off of a deflected pass, making it 3-0.
- Five more shots came from the Hawks before they took a 4-0 advantage courtesy of a goal by sophomore Laurentien van den Akker (Geldrop, The Netherlands).
- Before the half came to an end, Saint Anselm picked up one more score after freshman Ruby Reid (Fitchburg, Mass.) finished off a rebound with two minutes remaining.
- Molloy created their only scoring chance of the game in the third quarter, but the shot by Devin Harkins bounced wide of the cage off a penalty corner. Saint Anselm responded with two shots at the other end by freshman Leila Haertel (Mannheim, Germany), but both went wide.
- The Hawks dominated the final 15 minutes of play with five more penalty corners to go along with four more shot attempts. Rayfield, Reid, and freshman Sophie Smith (Yarmouth, Maine) all put shots on goal, but Lions goaltender Kayla Balsamo did well to make all three stops.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:
- Saint Anselm totaled 29 shots with 23 coming on goal. Molloy tallied just one shot on the afternoon.
- The Hawks earned 16 penalty corners in the game compared to just one for the Lions.
- Five different players scored for the Hawks, including seniors Davis and Sutton-Brown.
- Falterer faced just one shot, but was not forced to make a save in her senior day shutout. It was the seventh shutout of the season for Falterer and Saint Anselm.
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