WORCESTER, Mass. - The Saint Michael's College women's soccer team lost to regionally-ranked Assumption University, 4-1, on Saturday evening during Northeast-10 Conference play in Brian Kelly Stadium. The Greyhounds were sixth in this week's United Soccer Coaches East Region poll.

RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (5-6-3, 2-5-3 NE10), Assumption (5-3-6, 3-2-5 NE10)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Junior Izzy Ruprecht (Kingston, Mass./Silver Lake Regional), 1 goal
• Junior Katie Escobedo (New Rochelle, N.Y./Maria Regina), career-high-tying 9 saves

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Senior Diana Bruggeman, 2 goals
• Junior Annie Irwin, 1 goal
• Firsr-year Amaia Astiasaran, 1 goal
• First-year Julia Walsh, 3 saves

GAME FACTS

• Escobedo notched a career-high nine saves for the second straight game.
• Ruprecht leads the NE10 with three penalty kick goals this season.
• Fourteen of the Purple Knights' last 15 games since 2019 had been decided by a goal or less.

THE ACTION

• The teams exchanged early opportunities, as junior Zoe Rogers (Shelton, Conn./Shelton) was denied by Walsh in the fourth minute before Escobedo stopped senior Carly Sevigny in the fifth, and Ruprecht headed a bid high in the seventh minute.
• Bruggeman headed a try off the crossbar in the 10th minute but got another chance at 16:03, putting home a penalty kick. Just 10:05 later, she doubled the lead off of first-year Jordan Adduci's pass.
• Rogers had another attempt stopped midway through the 27th minute.
• Escobedo kept it 2-0 with a save in the 39th minute before making two more early in the second half.
• Senior back Brooke Caragher (Milton, Vt./Milton) had a chance stopped by Walsh in the 57th minute.
• Escobedo came up with back-to-back saves in the 72nd minute before Irwin padded the Assumption lead at 78:12, and Astiasaran tallied 5:27 later.
• Ruprecht broke the clean sheet by burying a penalty kick at 87:11.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Tuesday vs. regionally-ranked Franklin Pierce University, 2:45 p.m.
• The Ravens were fourth in this week's United Soccer Coaches East Region poll.
• The contest will be played on the grass-surface Doc Jacobs Field.