PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. - The Saint Michael's College women's ice hockey team finished a two-game weekend exhibition series with NCAA Division III power the State University of New York at Plattsburgh with a 2-0 setback on Saturday in Stafford Ice Arena. The Cardinals won five of the past six NCAA Tournaments.

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Sophomore Leah White (Hingham, Mass./The Winchendon School), 45 saves
• Senior Jenna Harrison (Kitchener, Ontario/Wellesley), 3 blocks, 11-for-17 faceoffs
• Junior Maeghan Kennard (Hamlin, N.Y./Niagara Jr. Purple Eagles), 9-for-17 faceoffs

OPPONENT LEADERS

• First-year Mattie Norton, 2 assists
• Senior Sara Krauseneck, 1 goal
• Sophomore Jordan Kowalski, 1 goal
• Junior Lilla Nease, 6 saves in 29:37
• Junior Chloe Beaubien, 7 saves in 30:23 of relief

GAME FACTS

• White saw her first game action for the Purple and Gold.
• Both teams won 30 faceoffs, with the Cardinals holding a slight 61-for-121 edge at the dot for the weekend series.
• After SUNY Plattsburgh was 4-for-4 on power plays on Friday, the Purple Knights held the hosts to a 0-for-2 showing on Saturday.

THE ACTION

• Sophomore Jace Zapata (Brea, Calif./Gentry Academy) and Harrison put consecutive shots on net around the eight-minute mark of the first period, but Nease denied both.
• White netted eight saves during a five-minute stretch late in the period before, much like Friday, the Cardinals cracked the scoring column for the first time late in the opening stanza. With only 48 seconds to go, Kowalski tallied the eventual game-winning goal.
• Unlike Friday, the Purple Knights limited SUNY Plattsburgh to just one goal over the final two frames. White made 15 saves in the second period, including four in a short time around the five-minute mark, before the hosts made it 2-0 at 9:51, with Krauseneck scoring.
• During a 90-stretch beginning around 15:00, the teams played back-and-forth hockey, with junior Sophia Burns (Syracuse, N.Y./Syracuse Nationals) having one shot saved and another blocked and Harrison being denied by Nease before action shifted to the other end, with Zapata blocking a shot. Sophomore Jenna Hoops (Woodbury, Minn./Saint Paul United) followed with a shot of her own, and White covered a final Cardinal shot in the harried sequence.
• Kowalski rang the post with three minutes to go before White made four late stops.
• In a scoreless third period, when White made 18 saves, Saint Michael's nearly broke through around the three-minute mark, with Burns, Hoops, senior Courtney Kelly (Arlington, Mass./Boston Jr. Shamrocks) and first-year Angelina Ruiz (Independence, Minn./Gentry Academy) combining to have two shots saved by Beaubien and another two blocked by graduate student Erin McArdle.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Friday at Long Island University, 3 p.m.
• LIU won the 2019-20 New England Women's Hockey Alliance (NEWHA) Tournament and the 2020-21 NEWHA Commissioner's Cup.