St. Anselm College put together a 27-point third quarter to earn its first victory of the year with a 48-21 decision over the visiting Pace Setters at Grappone Stadium in Manchester on Saturday. St. Anselm is 1-6 and Pace is 0-7.

Ahkeen Williams hauled in a 27 yard pass from Andrew Murphy for the first of the third quarter scores. Keith Charles scored on a 21 yard run and Williams found paydirt from four yards out. Lou Licciardi returned a Pace fumble 24 yards for a touchdown and St. Anselm led 40-14 after three quarters.

Charles, a junior running back and co-captain, accumulated 288 all purpose yards with 119 rushing yards, 21 receiving yards and 148 return yards including an 82-yarder that went for a touchdown with 5:15 remaining in the first quarter.

St. Anselm collected 430 total yards of offense with most of the damage coming from 267 rushing yards. Junior Greg Bell ran for a career high 90 yards on 12 carries.

Merrimack's Stephen Cuipa hit Justin Bernard for a six yard score and the first six Hawk points of the day. Bell had the second St. Anselm touchdown on a 45 yard run.

A pair of fumbles gave Pace good field position and the Setters were able to score two first half touchdowns and send the game into halftime tied at 14-14.

Cuipa finished 8-of-14 for 127 yards and a touchdown, while also rushing 10 times for 35 yards. Murphy was 4-of-7 for 36 yards, a touchdown and an interception.

Sacred Heart 27, Dartmouth 10

At Hanover, Keshaudas Spence rumbled for 138 yards and three touchdowns to power visiting Sacred Heart (2-4) past the Big Green (3-2).

Dartmouth led 10-6 with 3:11 left to play in the first quarter after Kirby Schoenthaler returned a kickoff 79 yards for a touchdown. Riley Lyons had given Dartmouth a 3-0 lead midway through the first on a 44 yard field goal.

Spence took over with his team trailing by seven and scored in each of the final three quarters on runs of 10, 14 and 11 yards, respectively.

Sacred Heart quarterback Tim Little hit Tim Goodwin with a two yard pass for the visitors first score of the day.

The Sacred Heart defense picked up four sacks and forced four turnovers during the game.

Brian Grove was the offensive leader for the Big Green with four catches for 62 yards.

Endicott 27, PSU 10

At Plymouth, Endicott broke away from a 10-10 halftime tie with 17 unanswered second half points Saturday at Currier Field during New England Football Conference Boyd Division play.

PSU drops to 2-5 and Endicott moves to 5-2.

Salem's Nick Cavallo had a 40 yard field goal and Andrew Foglia scored from seven yards out to give the Panthers a 10-3 advantage early in the second quarter. The score stayed that way until Jared DiBiase pounded his way in from three yards out to tie the game just before halftime.

DiBiase capped a 70 yard second half opening drive with a 12 yard touchdown and and then added a Dylan Rushe field goal and another DiBiase touchdown in the fourth quarter.

Foglia led Plymouth with 23 carries and 114 yards. DiBiase finished with 139 yards on 25 carries.