January 14, 2006                                                                            
Contact: Daniel O'Reilly
Phone: (802) 654-2929

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. – The Saint Michael's College women's ice hockey team (3-10 overall, 2-6 ECAC East) was defeated on Saturday by Salve Regina University (3-11, 1-10), 5-4, in ECAC East action at Cairns Arena.

For the Purple Knights, sophomore Gabrielle Bourgeois (New Haven, Vt./ Middlebury Union) scored three goals, and junior Katie Grable (Vista, Calif./Anaheim Lady Ducks) contributed a goal and an assist, while freshman Melanie Cullen (Derry, N.H./Pinkerton Academy) turned aside 15 shots.

For the Seahawks, sophomore Aimee Provencher (Manchester, N.H./Brewster Academy) scored a pair of goals and helped out on another, while freshman Caitlin Campbell (Hingham, Mass./Archbishop Williams) lit the lamp twice and classmate Mariel Guay (North Scituate, R.I./Proctor Academy) had both a goal and an assist. Freshman Michelle Chabot (Waterboro, Maine/The Gunnery) stopped 31 shots en route to the team's first conference victory of the season.

Saint Michael's jumped out on top just 56 seconds into the contest when Bourgeois scored, thanks to assists from senior Michelle Miaskiewicz (Salem, Mass./North Shore Vipers) and junior Melissa Gagne (Eliot, Maine/Berwick Academy). With the assist, Miaskiewicz moved past Meg Lyons '05 for sole possession of the program record in that category, with 40. At the 6:12 mark, the Purple Knights jumped out to a 2-0 lead when Grable scored her first goal of the season, with help from Bourgeois. The Seahawks, however, scored five unanswered goals, including two each by Provencher and Campbell, and that proved to be an insurmountable total for Saint Michael's, who dropped its ninth contest in a row.

Saint Michael's will return to action on Sunday when they will host Manhattanville College at 3:20 p.m. while Salve Regina plays again on Friday with a home match-up with New England College at 6 p.m.

For a complete boxscore, click here.