SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. - First-year Ava Kison scored with 1:53 left in overtime to lift Franklin Pierce University over Saint Michael's College, 3-2, on Friday night at Cairns Arena in a New England Women's Hockey Alliance (NEWHA) game.

RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (2-3, 2-3 NEWHA), Franklin Pierce (5-2, 4-1 NEWHA)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Junior Maddie Gervais (Glastonbury, Conn./East Catholic), 1 goal, 1 assist
• First year Maeghan Kennard (Hamlin, N.Y./Niagara Jr. Purple Eagles), 2 assists, 2 blocks
• Senior Arianna Boscia (Cranston, R.I./La Salle Academy), 1 goal, 2 blocks
• Senior Vika Simons (Essex Junction, Vt./Minnesota Duluth Club), 43 saves
• Junior Abby Dirks (Danvers, Mass./Pingree School), 4 blocks
• First-year Ella Saracco (Melrose, Mass./Middlesex Islanders), 7-for-16 faceoffs, 4 blocks

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Senior Delaney Guimont, 1 goal
• First-year Ava Kison, 1 goal
• First-year Becca Kniss, 1 goal
• Junior Haley Parker, 2 assist
• Sophomore Emme Ostrander, 21 saves

GAME FACTS

• The Purple Knights scored on their only power-play opportunity.
• This was the Purple Knights' third game of the year that was decided by one goal.
• This was the team's 24th all-time meeting, but the first to go to overtime.

THE ACTION

• In the first 1:11 of the first period, Simons was tested early with four saves on shots from four different Raven skaters.
• Nearly 12 minutes into the stanza, Gervais found senior Jordan Monbouquette (Wayland, Mass./Lawrence Academy) open in front of the goal, but the puck was tipped away before a shot by a Raven defender to keep the game scoreless.
• The Ravens took the lead 8:48 into the second period when a power-play shot by first-year Bethany Ross was saved by Simons, but Guimont was in front of the net to put home the rebound.
• Franklin Pierce scored again at 14:07 when Parker passed the puck up the left-side boards to Kniss along the goal line, who skated the puck to the net and shot between the legs of Simons.
• The Raven lead was cut in half on a power-play goal at 17:30 after Gervais passed to the point for Boscia, whose shot went to the right side of the net.
• The Purple Knights tied the game up just 1:53 later, at 19:23, when Kennard passed the puck to the blue line for Gervais, who skated to the net and shot to the upper part of the net.
• Sophomore Erica Pareja (Odenton, Md./Washington Pride) and Saracco had back-to-back shots with a little more than three minutes remaining in the third period saved by Ostrander.
• Simons stopped Kniss twice in the closing two minutes, sending the teams to overtime.
• The Purple Knights held a 2-1 advantage in shots during the extra period before Kison stole the puck behind the net and scored 3:07 into the stanza when her shot went to the top right corner of the net.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Saturday vs. Franklin Pierce, 1 p.m.