SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College women's ice hockey team finished a two-game weekend series with Post University by dropping a 3-1 decision on Sunday at Cairns Arena during New England Women's Hockey Alliance (NEWHA) action.

RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (5-18-4, 4-13-1 NEWHA), Post (12-20, 2-16 NEWHA)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Junior Courtney Kelly (Arlington, Mass./Boston Jr. Shamrocks), 1 goal, 3 blocks
• First-year Maeghan Kennard (Hamlin, N.Y./Niagara Jr. Purple Eagles), 1 assist, 17-for-23 faceoffs
• Sophomore Jenna Harrison (Kitchener, Ontario/Wellesley), 13-for-22
• Senior Vika Simons (Essex Junction, Vt./Minnesota Duluth Club), 27 saves
• Senior Arianna Boscia (Cranston, R.I./La Salle Academy), 3 blocks
• Junior Riley Nichols (Gilford, N.H./Tilton School), 4-for-6 faceoffs

OPPONENT LEADERS

• First-year Sadie Storm, 2 goals
• First-year Natalie Sammons, 1 goal
• Senior Jenna Baumgartner, 52 saves

GAME FACTS

• This was the Purple Knights' 12th game this season decided by two goals or less, including fourth in a row.
• Senior Alissa Sullivan (Hingham, Mass./Hingham) appeared in her program-record 104th career game, breaking a tie with Jess Tourville '09, Meghan Sweezey '10, Macey Thomas '14, Erin Dwyer '17 and Kayla Kee '17.
• Simons moved past the 900-save plateau during the game (912) and is within 12 stops of Erin Stevens' '13 seven-year-old school record.

THE ACTION

• The Purple Knights held a 13-6 advantage in shots during a scoreless first period.
• First-year Catherine Proulx skated alone up the left wing with two minutes gone, but her shot from the lower left circle was denied by Simons' right shoulder.
• The Purple and Gold had a 2-on-1 breakout in the latter portion of the frame, with junior Krista Ferrari's (Dunstable, Mass./East Coast Wizards) slap shot from the right circle denied at 11:39 by Baumgartner.
• Sophomore Erica Pareja (Odenton, Md./Washington Pride) made a nice move below the left circle with 1:10 left to get alone on the goalie, who made a glove save.
• Early in the second period, first-year Ella Saracco (Melrose, Mass./Middlesex Islanders) sent a one-time pass from the left boards into the circle for Harrison, whose slap shot was saved at 3:05.
• The Purple Knights nearly broke the deadlock at 5:38 during a 4-on-4 situation, with Kelly leading a 2-on-1 break and dropping a pass into the slot for Nichols, whose return pass to an open Kelly at the right post was broken up by Baumgartner's left skate.
• Now shorthanded, Saint Michael's had nearly the same play unfold less than a minute later, with Kelly leading a 2-on-1 break with Kennard, with the give-and-go play ending up with Kelly sliding the puck under a sprawling Baumgartner at 6:23 for the first goal of the game.
• The hosts nearly made it 2-0 shortly thereafter, but Ferrari had a shot on an open net blocked by a Post skater before she grabbed the rebound and rung the right post at 8:30.
• Post got on the board less than a minute later, as Storm intercepted a Purple Knight pass in neutral ice, skated over the blue line and sent a fluttering puck into the upper left corner of the net with 8:59 gone.
• Simons made a pair of big stops during odd-woman rushes late in the stanza, denying junior Paige Dundas' shorthanded breakaway at 16:22 before making a blocker stop on first-year Madison Turley with 17:30 gone.
• After a long tie-up along the far boards in the final minute, a Purple Knight skated away with possession, but first-year Jenna Abeyta knocked the puck to Sammons in the slot for a 2-on-0 break, and Sammons picked the upper right corner with 41.7 seconds remaining.
• Nichols had a good look out front at 1:46 of the third period, but her one-timer was stopped by Baumgartner's left pad.
• During a power play at 9:57, Boscia juked her defender in the right circle to get a cleaner look on goal, but Baumgartner made a glove save, and junior Maddie Gervais' (Glastonbury, Conn./East Catholic) redirection was stopped by the goalie's toe at 12:21. Senior Kendall Fitzgerald immediately countered at the other end, but Simons denied her shorthanded breakaway bid.
• Gervais again nearly knotted the contest with 15:15 gone, flying up the right wing and trying to bank a shot off the goalie's back, but Baumgartner covered while falling backwards.
• Saint Michael's pulled Simons for an extra skater at 17:41, with Kennard having a bid saved four seconds later. Storm scored on the empty net from just outside the blue line at 18:06, hitting a Purple Knight skate on the way in.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Friday vs. Sacred Heart University, 7 p.m.