COLCHESTER, Vt. – Sophomore
Kayleigh Crowell (Beverly, Mass./Beverly) scored her third game-winning goal of the season in the 85th minute as the Saint Michael's College women's soccer team defeated regionally-ranked Bentley University, 1-0, on Tuesday night at Duffy Field during Northeast-10 Conference play. The Falcons were seventh in this week's United Soccer Coaches East Region poll.
RECORDS
- Saint Michael's (7-5-3, 3-5-1 NE10), Bentley (5-4-4, 4-3-2 NE10)
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS
OPPONENT LEADERS
- Junior Claire Ewen, 2 saves
GAME FACTS
- The Purple Knights have shut out their opponents in six of their seven victories on the year.
- The Purple and Gold's seven wins is its most since the 2008 season.
- Crowell now has three game-winning goals on the season, one shy of the most in the Northeast-10.
- The two teams both took 13 shots on the night.
- Crowell's seven goals are the most by a Purple Knight in a single season since Carissa Gildea '11 scored nine in 2007.
- The Purple Knights are 5-1-1 in their last seven games.
- With two regular-season games remaining, the Purple and Gold is now tied for eighth in a league that takes the top eight into its postseason tournament.
- Crowell has scored with less than six minutes in regulation in the last two matches for the Purple Knights, leading the team to a tie with Franklin Pierce with her goal in the 88th minute on Saturday, and a victory tonight.
THE ACTION
- Anastopoulos started her night off by making a one-handed save on a header from graduate student Emily Hartson off a corner kick in the 10th minute.
- Gabby Vachon had an attempt in the 16th minute that hit the post and rattled back into play and cleared by the Purple Knights defense.
- Sophomore Faith Kosiba (Dunstable, Mass./Groton-Dunstable Regional) had a shot on goal shortly after in the 18th minute that Ewen saved and prevented the Purple Knights from taking the lead.
- Junior Jillian Hendriksen attempted a header on a cross into the box that Anastopoulos saved in the 41st minute to keep the teams in a stalemate.
- The Purple and Gold had back-to-back shot attempts by senior Sam Page (Merrimack, N.H./Merrimack) and junior Emilia McGiffert (Duluth, Minn./Marshall School/Minnesota Duluth) in the 54th minute, but the attempts were blocked and wide, respectively.
- Anastopoulos made a diving save to her left in the 64th minute on a shot from junior Bridget Gleason that barred the Falcons from scoring the first goal of the game.
- Crowell scored the game-winner in the 85th minute after juking a Falcon defender in the attacking third and taking a left-footed shot that found the bottom left corner of the net.
- The Falcons took two more shots before the end of the game, both in the 86th minute, but the attempts were unsuccessful, with neither reaching the net.
NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME
- Saturday vs. American International College, 5 p.m.
- The Purple Knights will host a Breast Cancer Awareness Game that day.
