SSouthern New Hampshire University Athletics
Week at a Glance (March 15-21, 2022)
 
Female Athlete of the Week: Senior Anna Casagrande (Pelham, Mass.)
With rounds of 80-83-79, SNHU senior Anna Casagrande finished tied for 30th at the Inaugural Dr. Jerry Surratt Memorial Invitational in Monroe, N.C. Casagrande shot an +8 (80) in the opening round and +11 (83) in the second round. Casagrande shot a +7 (79), her best round of the tournament, to conclude play.
 
Male Athlete of the Week: Graduate student Nolan Isabella (Ballston Spa, N.Y.)
Graduate student Nolan Isabella had four ground balls and one caused turnover in SNHU's 10-7 loss to #5 Adelphi Saturday. Isabella helped keep Adelphi offensive leader Joseph Duchnowski in check, holding him scoreless for the contest.  He finished the week with seven ground balls and is up to 127 for his career.
 
 
Softball (4-10, 0-0 NE10)
Last Week's Results:  No games.
This Week's Games:
3/26 vs. Pace University – 12 p.m.
3/26 vs. Pace University-  follows Game 1
3/27 vs. Adelphi University – 12 p.m.
3/27 vs. Adelphi University – follows Game 1
Notes-
-SNHU returns home to host their first double header of the season on Saturday, March 26 against Pace University. The Penmen will play at 12:00 and 2:00 p.m. Both games will take place at the SNHU Softball Field in Hooksett, N.H.
 
 
Baseball  (10-4, 0-0 NE10)
Last Week's Results: 
 3/19 at Adelphi (DH) – W, 4-2
3/20 at Adelphi – L, 2-3
3/21 at Adelphi --  L, 4-16
 
This Week's Games:
3/25 vs. Stonehill – 3:30 p.m.
3/26 vs. Stonehill – 12 p.m.
3/26 vs. Stonehill – Follows Game 1
3/27 vs. Stonehill – 1 p.m.
 
Notes:
-Redshirt sophomore Cristian Mercedes (Providence, R.I.) went 2-for-4 with a two-run double to help lift #11 SNHU to a 4-2 win on Adelphi Sunday in the first game of a doubleheader.
-Senior Sam Henrie (Middleboro, Mass.) had a pair of hits, including a run producing single in the third.  He also doubled in the eighth, and scored a fourth run for the Penmen on a wild pitch.
-The Penmen Field opener is scheduled for Friday, March 25 (3:30 p.m.) when it plays host to Stonehill College in the Northeast-10 opener.
- Redshirt freshman Dylan O'Sullivan (Manchester, N.H.) homered in the game against Adelphi Monday afternoon, his second of the season.
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Women's Track & Field
Last Week's Results:  NCAA Women's Div. II Indoor Track & Field Championships (Pittsburg, KS)
 
This Week:
No Meets
 
Notes:
- Graduate student Ashley Corcoran brought an end to the indoor portion of the schedule with a 16th place in the mile run at the NCAA Championships.  Her time of 4:53.22 did not qualify for the final, but it was less than two seconds off her season and program mark of 4:51.44.
- The Penmen will host a pair of outdoor meets, starting with the SNHU Spring Invitation on April 2.
 
 
Men's Lacrosse (1-2, 0-2 NE10)
Last Week's Results:
3/16 vs. Molloy College – W, 12-8
3/19 vs. #7 Adelphi University – L, 7-10
 
This Week's Games:
3/26 at #2 Le Moyne – 2 p.m.
Notes:
-Sophomore Jack Terrones (Anaheim, Calif.) scored five goals, and junior Ryan Auger (Derry, N.H.) added a pair of goals and four assists as SNHU rallied for a 12-8 win over Molloy College Wednesday at Penmen Stadium.
-Senior Tristan Pietz (Dudley, Mass.)  scored 1 goal, and had 3 assists.
-Junior Gennaro Marra (Derry, N.H.)  won 19 of 22 face-offs and had 14 ground balls.
- Sophomore Ronan DePaul (Elkton, Md.) earned a split of two starts during the week, earning the win SNHU's 12-8 decision over Molloy College Wednesday and then recording 15 saves for the Penmen in Saturday's 10-7 loss to #5 Adelphi. 
 
 
 
Women's Lacrosse (2-1, 0-1 NE10)
Last Week's Results:
3/19 at #9 Adelphi – L, 7-22
 
This Week's Games:
3/22 at College of Saint Rose- W, 10-9 (2 OT)
3/26 vs. Franklin Pierce University, 12 p.m.
 
Notes:
- Sophomore Shelby Cole (Gilford, N.H.) scored two goals, but the Southern New Hampshire University women's lacrosse team lost 22-7 in the NE10 opener against No. 8 Adelphi University on Saturday afternoon.
- Junior Angelina Graziano (Riverhead, N.Y.), freshman Madison Keating (Milton, N.H.) scored 1 goal and had 1 assist, and sophomore Layne Walther (Center Moriches, N.Y) each scored 1 goal and had 1 assist.
 
 
Women's Tennis (10-3, 9-1 NE10)
Last Week's Results: 
No games
This Week's Games:
None
 
Notes:
- The Penmen return to action on Saturday, April 2 at Goldey-Beacom College in Wilmington, Del.
 
 
Men's Tennis (3-0-0, 0-0 NE10)
Last Week's Results: 
No games.
 
This Week's Games:
3/26 vs. Adelphi – 1 p.m.
 
Notes:
- SNHU returns home March 26 to open NE10 play against Adelphi. The match is slated for 1 p.m. at Penmen Stadium Tennis Courts.
 
Women's Golf
Last Week's Results:
3/14 & 3/15 – Senior Anna Casagrande (Pelham, Mass.) finished in 30th out of 62 golfers at the Jerry Surratt Invitational – Monroe, N.C.
This Week's Matches:
None.
Notes:
- Senior Anna Casagrande (Pelham, Mass.) finished in 30th out of 62 golfers at the Jerry Surratt Invitational playing as an individual on Tuesday at Stonebridge Golf Club.
- Casagrande shot a +7 (79), her best round of the tournament, to conclude play.
-Casagrande shot an +8 (80) in the opening round and +11 (83) in the second round.
-The Penmen women's golf team will wrap up the 2022 regular season on April 2-3 at the Hartford Invite at Wintonbury Hills Golf Club in Bloomfield, Conn.
 
Men's Golf
Last Week's Results:
None
This Week's Matches:
None
Notes:
- The Penmen return to action on March 28-29 when they travel to compete in The Trojan, hosted by Mount Olive at Walnut Creek Country Club.
 
COMPLETED SEASONS
Women's Soccer (13-4-1, 11-2-0 NE10)
Notes:
- Women's soccer posted its highest number of wins in three years, as it began the season 9-0-0 for the first time since the 1984 campaign and also started the year with a 13-match unbeaten streak (12-0-1), which was the longest since the 1989 season.
- The Penmen, who soared as high as No. 6 in the United Soccer Coaches Division II National Top 25 Poll, earned the program's first NE10 Regular-Season Championship and the top seed in the NE10 Championship, where it fell, 2-1, to eighth-seeded Southern Connecticut State University in the quarterfinal round.
- SNHU received its seventh NCAA Championship selections and its fourth straight, garnering the third seed in the East Regional, but lost, 1-0, to sixth-seeded Mercy College.
- Graduate students Allyson Patterson (Seekonk, Mass.) and Ai Inoue (Tokyo, Japan) claimed Division II Conference Commissioners Association (D2CCA) East All-Region First Team honors. Patterson, who earned the accolade for the second consecutive season, started all 17 contests she played in, registering 13 points on six goals and an assist. Inoue, meanwhile, started 13 of the 14 matches she appeared in and was a huge difference-maker on a back line that ranked second in the conference in goals allowed (11), shutouts (9) and goals-against average (0.60). She contributed three assists, offensively.
- Head coach Elie Monteiro collected his second NE10 Coach of the Year award, while Patterson was crowned the NE10 Player of the Year and Inoue was chosen as the NE10 Defensive Player of the Year. Patterson and Inoue were joined on the NE10 All-Conference First Team by junior Jordan Butters (Beverly, Mass.), who started 14 of the 18 matches she played in and ranked second on the team with 14 points on five goals and four assists.
 
Men's Soccer (11-6-1, 8-3-1 NE10)
Notes:
- Men's soccer reached double figures in wins for the first time since 2018. After starting the campaign 3-4-0, the Penmen caught fire and put together a seven-match unbeaten streak (6-1-0), as they lost just one of their final nine matches to end the regular season.
- SNHU claimed the No. 4 seed and a quarterfinal home match for the NE10 Championships and secured a 1-0 victory over fifth-seeded Adelphi University to advance to the semifinal round for the first time since '18. The Penmen lost to top-seeded Franklin Pierce University, 2-1, in overtime to fall short of the title game.
- Graduate students Kiko Hernandez (Madrid, Spain) and Jannik Mohr (Koblenz, Germany) landed spots on the NE10 All-Conference First Team. Hernandez was a key cog in the midfield for the Penmen and dished a pair of assists. Mohr anchored a back line that  allowed the second fewest number of goals in the NE10 this season (18) and also ranked third in goals-against average (0.91). Mohr also contributed on the offensive end with two goals and an assist for five points.
- Grad student Nadjib Chibout (Lyon, France) was chosen as a Second Team selection, while fellow grad student Michael Goncalves (Ludlow, Mass.) and sophomore Nicolas Gonzalez (Santander, Spain) received Third Team nods.
 
Field Hockey (6-11, 6-8 NE10)
Notes:
- Field hockey started the season slow, but won five of its last eight down the stretch, including three straight. The Penmen narrowly missed the NE10 postseason, however, falling one game short of the eighth and final spot in the NE10 Championship.
- Freshman Annemartine Christis (' S-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands) received NE10 All-Conference Second Team and NE10 All-Rookie Team honors. Christis, who started all 17 contests for the Penmen, led the team in both goals (9) and points (23), while ranking second in assists (5). She finished 13th in the NE10 in points and also sat inside the top 20 in goals and assists. Amongst the league's freshmen, Christis slotted in third in assists and fourth in both goals and points.
- Junior Sofie Wolters (Schilde, Belgium) was an NE10 All-Conference Third Team selection. She started all 17 matches and was an important cog in the SNHU defense, making a pair of defensive saves. She also contributed, offensively, with two goals and three assists for seven points. Wolters placed third on the team in assists, fourth in points and tied for fifth in goals, while ranking inside the top 10 in the league in defensive saves.
 
Women's Volleyball (12-11, 8-5 NE10)
Notes:
- Volleyball jumped out to a 3-1 start – its best since the 2014 campaign – and won six of eight down the stretch to claim the seventh seed in the NE10 Championship. The Penmen, making their first appearance in the NE10 postseason since 2018, dropped a 3-1 decision to the second-seeded University of New Haven.
- SNHU finished above .500 for the second straight season – the first time it has done that since the 1979 and 1980 campaigns.
- Junior Juliana Pacini (Sao Paulo, Brazil) became just the third Penmen ever to earn NE10 All-Conference Second Team honors. In 85 sets across 23 matches, Pacini amassed 269 kills (3.16 k/s), 38 service aces (0.45 sa/s), 246 digs (2.89 d/s) and 22 blocks (0.26 b/s).
 
Cross Country
Notes:
- The women started the season out on the right foot by winning the Shacklette Invitational at Saint Anselm College. Graduate student Ashley Corcoran (East Longmeadow, Mass.) was also victorious, capturing the event for a second straight season with a time of 23:29.3. The Penmen were also 12th at the 23-team New England Championships (Corcoran matched the fastest 5K in program history at 18:20.4), third at the NE10 Championships and fourth at NCAA East Regional Championships, as they missed out on qualifying for the NCAA National Championships by just a since point. Corcoran's time of 21:43.7 slotted her fourth, overall, which was good enough for an automatic bid to nationals, where Corcoran placed 71st in a time of 21:52.1.
- Corcoran received NE10 All-Conference First Team accolades for finishing third at the NE10 Championships in a time of 22:21.11. She was joined on the First Team by classmate Jill Couto (Newton Junction, N.H.), who was fifth at 22:51.7. Junior Sarah Zarakotas (Deerfield, N.H.), sophomore Kelsey Seamans (Methuen, Mass.) and graduate student Maura Coakley (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) were all Third Team honorees.
- The men checked in seventh at the NE10 Championships, with senior Jacob Logan (Norwood, Mass.) leading the way in 18th place in a time of 26:50, which earned him NE10 All-Conference Third Team recognition. SNHU was 15th at the NCAA East Regional Championships, with sophomore Kody Gagnon (Tolland, Conn.) running the race in 34:36.3.
 
Men's Basketball (13-11, 9-9 NE10)
Notes:
- Two members of the SNHU men's basketball team were honored with All-Conference recognition.
-  Freshman Aaron Gray was named Third Team All-Conference, and was placed on the All-Rookie team. Gray led the Penmen with 15.6 points per game, and was also the team's top rebounder at 6.3 points per game.
- Sophomore Matt Becht was also named Third Team All-Conference after averaging 14.9 points per game, second on the squad.  Becht connected on 76 three-point field goals, which ranked second in the NE10.  He scored a career-high 35 points in a January 29 win at Pace University.
- Corry Long was the lone senior on the squad, finishing up with a 12.6 scoring average and 5.2 points per game.
- Playing much of the season short-handed, the Penmen did put together an impressive five game conference win streak between January 19 and February 2.  The final win in that stretch was an 85-59 win over a Franklin Pierce squad that advanced to the NCAA Div. II East Regional.
 
 
Men's Ice Hockey (16-8, 14-4 NE10)
Notes:
- The Penmen won the NE10 regular season title for the first time since the 2005-06 season, earning the top seed in the Championship.  A 3-2 overtime loss to Post University ended the season in the semifinal round.
- Two members of the squad, senior Joseph Fiorino and junior George Thurston were named semifinalists for the Joe Concannon Award, which is presented annually to the best American-born college hockey player in New England competing at the Division II-III level.  Fiorino was selected for the second time.
- First-Team All-Conference Awards went to Thurston and Fiorino, who was also named the NE10 Defensive Player of the Year.  Jake Cox and Adam Mercer were named to the Second-Team.  Matt Amante made the All-Rookie Team, and Sean Walsh was named NE10 Coach of the Year.
- Thurston led the team with 21 goals and 12 assists (33 points).  Cox tallied nine goals and had 22 assists (31 points).  Amante was third in scoring with eight goals and 13 assists.

Women's Basketball (21-7, 15-4 NE10)
Notes:
-SNHU earned the #1 seed in the East Region, but fell at home to Daemen College, the defending regional champ by a score of 70-59 in the NCAA tournament.  Graduate student Karlee Ziliak scored 19 points to lead SNHU scorers while sophomore Jessica Knight posted a double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds.
- This was the first time in SNHU history it hosted an NCAA Regional for women's basketball.
- The Penmen played in the NCAA tournament for the first time since the 1989-90 season.
- Adrianna Timberlake led the team with 362 points, followed by Ziliak with 339, and graduate student Meg Knollmeyer with 304.
 
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