Box Score WEST HAVEN, Conn. - The regionally-ranked Saint Michael's College women's soccer team was felled by the University of New Haven, 1-0, on an 82nd-minute goal on Sunday at Kathy Zolad Stadium during Northeast-10 Conference play. The Purple Knights were seventh in this week's United Soccer Coaches East Region poll.
RECORDS
- Saint Michael's (4-3-1, 2-2-1 NE10), New Haven (4-4, 1-4 NE10)
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS
OPPONENT LEADERS
- First-year Vickie Fleming, 1 goal
- Graduate student Paige Davis, 7 saves
GAME FACTS
- Saint Michael's put together leads in shots (12-5) and corner kicks (4-0).
- Each of the Purple Knights' last 10 games since 2019 has been decided by a goal or less.
- Five of the Purple and Gold's last six games were 1-0 affairs.
- Saint Michael's has seen multiple goals scored between the teams only twice in eight games this season.
- This was the 12th consecutive meeting between the schools decided by one goal or less.
- New Haven has played six one-goal games.
THE ACTION
- The Purple Knights put a pair of shots on net in the ninth minute, from juniors Zoe Rogers (Shelton, Conn./Shelton) and Paulina Valentine (New Hyde Park, N.Y./Kellenberg Memorial), but Davis stopped each.
- Escobedo came up with a big stop in the 39th minute, denying sophomore Dakota Cimetta's point-blank one-touch after getting in behind the defense.
- With Davis out of her net to play the ball, sophomore Claire Williams (Saint Leonard, Md./Calvert) had a look at the cage with a few field players in her way and sent a shot just left of the frame in the 47th minute.
- In the 82nd minute, sophomore Gabriela Garcia-Perez's through ball sent Fleming into the box, where she wove through defenders and ultimately slipped a shot into the lower left with 81:59.
- That proved to be the game's final shot. The Purple Knights had a throw-in deep in the Charger zone with fewer than 30 seconds left, but a giveaway was cleared into the Saint Michael's end, capping the threat.
NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME
- Wednesday vs. regionally-ranked Saint Anselm College, 3 p.m.
- The Purple Knights host a Hope Happens Here Mental Health Awareness Game that day.
- The Hawks were 10th in this week's United Soccer Coaches East Region poll.
