ALBANY, N.Y. - The Saint Michael's College men's soccer team suffered its third consecutive one-goal defeat by falling at The College of Saint Rose, 1-0, on Tuesday evening at Sullivan Field. The Purple Knights are 1-5-1 overall and winless through five Northeast-10 Conference contests, while the Golden Knights improved to 3-5 and 3-2, winning a non-double-overtime contest for the first time this season.

First-year Leland Gazo (Colchester, Vt./Rice Memorial/Bradley) recorded three saves for the visitors, who held an 8-3 lead in corner kicks and matched Saint Rose with 13 shots. Saint Rose sophomore Wari Isaac netted the lone tally of the contest, and classmate Gianni Carillo made three saves for the clean sheet.

Saint Rose had the earliest opportunity, as senior David Haston had a fifth-minute shot blocked before first-year Oskar Aastroem was denied by Gazo soon thereafter. The Purple Knights ran off three straight corner kicks between the seventh and 11th minutes without firing off a shot before sophomore Wesley Lord (Manchester, Vt./Burr and Burton Academy) sent a try on frame in the 14th minute that Carillo fended off.

Gazo came up with another save on senior Suleiman Haruna-iya's 25th-minute try before Carillo stopped sophomore Chris Cervantes (Barranquilla, Colombia/Doral Academy Charter School) at 34:36. Just 12 seconds later, Isaac scored on a counter at the other end, taking a through ball and deking Gazo before sliding the ball into the far left of the net. That proved to be the final shot on goal in the stanza.

Carillo came off his line to force sophomore Andres Rivas (Caracas, Venezuela/Palmer Trinity School) to put a shot wide right in the 52nd minute, and junior Kyle Clemens responded by sailing a shot from the right flank just over the right corner a minute later. Senior Adrián Díaz (Santiago de Compostela, Spain/Vermont Academy) was stopped in the 69th minute before his ensuing corner kick entry pass led to Rivas having a shot blocked.

Sophomore Niv Fogel slipped a shot just over the frame from 20 yards during the 72nd minute, and Gazo saved Clemens' header attempt directly off a restart in the 77th minute. First-year Eamonn Mahoney (Springfield, Mass./Renaissance Charter School) saw his tying bid drift high in the 80th minute, and Díaz's corner kick in the 81st minute yielded no shot. Sophomore Justin D'Orlando (Middleton, Mass./Bridgton Academy) followed by heading the ball wide left in the 85th minute. Saint Rose rattled off the final three shots, with each heading off frame.

The Purple Knights host Bentley University on Saturday at 12 p.m.