COLCHESTER, Vt. - First-year Christina Cummings (Queensbury, N.Y./Queensbury) buried the equalizer in the 14th minute to help the Saint Michael's College women's soccer team tie regionally-ranked Franklin Pierce University, 1-1, on Tuesday afternoon at Doc Jacobs Field during Northeast-10 Conference play. The Ravens were fourth in this week's United Soccer Coaches East Region poll.

RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (5-6-4, 2-5-4 NE10), Franklin Pierce (8-3-3, 5-3-3 NE10)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Cummings, 1 goal
• Junior Izzy Ruprecht (Kingston, Mass./Silver Lake Regional), 1 assist
• Junior Katie Escobedo (New Rochelle, N.Y./Maria Regina), 4 saves

OPPONENT LEADERS

• First-year Delaney Farinha, 1 goal
• First-year Gabby Calidonio, 6 saves

GAME FACTS

• Saint Michael's is 1-1-3 in its last five games.
• Fifteen of the Purple Knights' last 17 games since 2019 were decided by a goal or less.
• The Purple and Gold is 7-3-3 during its past 13 home games.
• With Duffy Field occupied by a field hockey game on Tuesday, Saint Michael's played on Doc Jacobs Field for the first time since Oct. 24, 2018, when it drew Franklin Pierce, then ranked 11th nationally, 0-0.
• Saint Michael's is 2-1-2 in its last five meetings at home with the Ravens, allowing only three goals.
• The hosts were only outshot 12-10, holding a 6-3 edge in the opening half.

THE ACTION

• Farinha got her team on the board just 6:41 into play, finding space at the top of box and firing a left-footed shot bar-down.
• Saint Michael's knotted the contest soon thereafter, with Ruprecht playing forward for Cummings, who slipped a shot inside the right post and beyond a diving Calidonio with 13:25 gone.
• The Purple Knights had a chance to go in front late in the opening half, with junior Katie Marullo (Enfield, Conn./Enfield) firing from 20 yards and forcing the netminder into a diving save in the 45th minute, and Marullo followed the rebound for a point-blank second-chance opportunity that was also denied.
• Escobedo dove to tip away junior Ciersten Palumbo's bid in the 63rd minute.
• In the overtime periods, Escobedo intercepted a handful of crosses before stopping another Palumbo shot in the 106th minute.
• Cummings followed in the 107th minute by lofting a long shot in the air that Calidonio secured after the slick ball initially slipped through her hands.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Friday vs. regionally-ranked Bentley University, 2:45 p.m.
• The Falcons were sixth in this week's United Soccer Coaches East Region poll.