COLCHESTER, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College field hockey team lost to Franklin Pierce University, 4-2, on Wednesday afternoon during Northeast-10 Conference play at Duffy Field.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (3-12, 3-7 NE10), Franklin Pierce (6-7, 5-5 NE10)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Senior Bridgie Loughlin (Kingston, N.Y./Kingston), 2 goals
• Junior Riley O'Connor (Canton, Mass./Canton), 7 saves
• Senior Samantha Shapiro (Saratoga Springs, N.Y./Saratoga Springs), 1 defensive save

OPPONENT LEADERS

• First-year Vicky-Louise Witkamp, 1 goal, 1 assist
• Junior Caity Hazley, 1 goal
• Junior Rebecca Phillips, 1 goal
• Sophomore Lily Zavras, 1 goal
• First-year Zoe Noorlag, 5 saves

GAME FACTS

• Loughlin tied Cassaundra Davis '15 for seventh in program history with 75 career points. With 30 career goals, Loughlin passed Chrissy Daly '02 (29) for eighth in school annals.
• O'Connor pushed her career save total to 301, passing Nancy Raymond '82 (299) for fifth in program history.
• Shapiro registered her fifth defensive save in the last seven games, accounting for her entire 2023 total. That figure is the highest by a Purple Knight since Claire Kondrotas '19 had six in 2018.

THE ACTION

• O'Connor denied senior Silver Clukey's shot from the edge of the circle on the third minute, but Zavras sent the rebound home into the lower left.
• O'Connor stopped a pair of shots during a 23rd-minute corner sequence before Shapiro cleared the third bid in the series, off the stick of Phillips, off the line.
• In the 38th minute, junior Chloe Sapienza (Georgetown, Mass./Georgetown) drove the end line before slipping a pass out front, where a prone Noorlag made a stick save of Loughlin's point-blank shot while on the ground.
• Hazley doubled the Raven lead at 40:20, beating the Purple Knight defense to Witkamp's lead pass before slipping a shot into the lower left corner.
• Witkamp added a tally late in the 46th minute, turning at the left side of the circle and quickly wristing a shot inside the close post to cap a corner set.
• Phillips' solo effort made it 4-0 in the 48th minute, but Loughlin countered just 55 seconds later, scoring from the edge of the circle after sophomore Ashley Boucher's (Colchester, Vt./Rice Memorial) pass.
• Loughlin scored again at 50:48, her second marker in a matter of 2:07, stealing a back pass before beating Noorlag to her stick side during an odd-woman rush.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Saturday at the University of New Haven, 12 p.m.