Box Score COLCHESTER, Vt. - A 77th-minute goal was all the regionally-ranked Saint Michael's College women's soccer team allowed to 19th-ranked Southern New Hampshire University during a 1-0 loss on Wednesday in Northeast-10 Conference play at Duffy Field. The Purple Knights are ninth in the latest United Soccer Coaches East Region poll, while the Penmen are 19th in the national rankings and third in the region.
RECORDS
- Saint Michael's (3-2, 1-1 NE10), Southern New Hampshire (4-0, 2-0 NE10)
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS
OPPONENT LEADERS
- Junior Jordan Butters, 1 goal
- Senior Hannah Rose, 0 saves
GAME FACTS
- Each of the Purple Knights' last seven games since 2019 has been decided by a goal or less.
- Escobedo, who entered the day tied for first in NCAA Division II in shutouts (3), yielded just the one goal while facing 11 shots. She was this week's NE10 Player of the Week and Goalkeeper of the Year.
- Today's game was the second of three straight for the Purple Knights against teams ranked in the United Soccer Coaches East Region poll. Southern New Hampshire is not only third in the regional rankings but also stands 19th in the national poll. The Penmen qualified for the last three NCAA Tournaments.
- Southern New Hampshire has now allowed only one goal over its last 470 minutes since 2019, running its shutout streak to 327:22.
THE ACTION
- Escobedo was tested early, punching a 30-yard shot off the foot of sophomore Alyssa Anderson over the bar in the seventh minute.
- Saint Michael's had a pair of opportunities later in the opening stanza, as sophomore Claire Williams (Saint Leonard, Md./Calvert) drilled a shot from the edge of the box wide left in the 19th minute before first-year Christina Cummings (Queensbury, N.Y./Queensbury) missed the right post in the 20th minute from distance.
- Graduate student Allyson Patterson's header off of a corner kick serve was stopped by Escobedo in the 29th minute, and the netminder kept it scoreless by leaping toward the upper left corner to bat away senior Julia Keller's left-footed drive from beyond the box in the 34th minute.
- That proved to be the last shot on goal for either team until Butters broke the deadlock in the 77th minute, with senior Sydney Carney's cross from the right side settling in the box and Butters turning and shooting into the upper right corner at 76:24.
- Neither team put another shot on frame, with the Purple Knights earning corner kicks in the 83rd and 84th minutes but not releasing any shots.
NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME
- Saturday vs. regionally-ranked American International College, 12 p.m.
- The Yellow Jackets were eighth in this week's United Soccer Coaches East Region poll, one spot ahead of the Purple Knights.
