SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College women's ice hockey team lost a New England Women's Hockey Alliance (NEWHA), against first-place Long Island University, 3-1, on Saturday afternoon at Cairns Arena. Junior Grace Canterbury (Eagle River, Alaska/Shattuck-Saint Mary's School) scored the lone goal for the Purple Knights with her first-period tally.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (0-16, 0-14 NEWHA), LIU (14-5, 14-0 NEWHA)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADER

• Junior Grace Canterbury (Eagle River, Alaska/Shattuck-Saint Mary's School), 1 goal
• First-year Victoria FitzGibbon (Stittsville, Ontario/East Ottawa Junior Stars U22 AA), 1 assist, 3 blocked shots
• First-year Alizée LeBlanc (Dieppe, New Brunswick/Ridley College), 6-for-14 faceoffs, 2 blocked shots
• Sophomore Annika Lavender (Plymouth, Minn./Wayzata), 45 saves

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Senior Mikayla Lantto, 1 goal
• Junior Mary Rachel Lenaeus, 1 goal
• First-year Grace Babington, 1 goal
• Senior Anna Fairman, 1 assist
• Senior Sarah Rourke, 1 assist, 11-for-12 faceoffs, 2 blocked shots
• Junior Journey Miller, 1 assist
• Junior Bri Eid¸1 assist
• Sophomore Lisa Schröfl, 1 assist
• Junior Tindra Holm, 24 saves

GAME FACTS

• The Purple Knights blocked 15 shots on the night.
• Neither team converted on the power play.
• Lavender has made 40 or more saves in six different contests on the year.

THE ACTION

• The Purple Knights connected on the first goal of the game in the first period at 7:46 when FitzGibbon took a slap shot that was saved by Holm, and Canterbury gathered the rebound and backhanded the puck through the five-hole to make the score 1-0.
• The Sharks scored their first goal of the contest in the second period at 7:06, when Lenaeus scored on a shot from the point that snuck past Lavender to equalize the contest.
• LIU scored its second goal of the period at 13:36 after a pass from Miller from behind the net found the stick of Babington, who took a shot to put the Sharks on top 2-1.
• The Sharks scored their final goal of the night in the third period at 14:18 as Lantto scored on the rebound of her own shot to make the score 3-1.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Dec. 29 vs. Rochester Institute of Technology, 7 p.m.