BURLINGTON, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College women's ice hockey team finished a stretch of four games in five days with a 6-0 loss to the University of Vermont on Tuesday evening in Gutterson Fieldhouse. The Catamounts received votes toward the latest U.S. College Hockey Online (USCHO) national poll.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (0-20), Vermont (9-8-1)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADER

• Sophomore Annika Lavender (Plymouth, Minn./Wayzata), 47 saves
• Senior Jace Zapata (Brea, Calif./Gentry Academy), 3 blocked shots
• Sophomore Emersynn McGillis (Ottawa, Ontario/Nepean Jr. Wildcats), 3 blocked shots

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Junior Evelyne Blais-Savoie, 2 goals, 1 assist
• Senior Natálie Mlýnková, 1 goal, 2 assists
• Senior Maddy Skelton, 1 goal
• First-year Kaylee Lewis, 1 goal
• First-year Ezra Oien, 1 goal
• Redshirt first-year Ellie Simmons, 9 saves

GAME FACTS

• Lavender posted at least 45 saves for the fifth straight contest.
• Lavender moved into eighth in program history with 688 saves this season, within one of seventh place. She also passed the 1,000-save threshold for her career and now has 1,027.
• The Purple Knights played their fourth game in five days.
• The crosstown foes met in regular-season play for the first time.

THE ACTION

• First-year Victoria FitzGibbon's (Stittsville, Ontario/East Ottawa Junior Stars U22 AA) slapshot from the blue line with 2:36 gone in the opening frame was blocked by a Catamount before senior Mikaela Langbacka's (Lorton, Va./Washington Pride) follow-up bid down front was smothered by Simmons.
• Lavender denied sophomore Krista Parkkonen's one-timer from the slot with a glove stop at 8:12.
• Mlýnková put Vermont ahead at 15:32, stuffing a backhander home at the left post.
• Less than a minute later, Lavender denied graduate student Sara Levesque's shot before Skelton tallied on an empty right side of the net with 16:26 gone.
• Lavender kept it 2-0 at 7:06 of the second period by diving across a vacated crease to deny Lewis' sure goal.
• Blais-Savoie and Lewis scored in similar fashions at 9:51 and 13:34, respectively, beating Lavender to her glove side corner from the left circle.
• In between, sophomore Elisabeth Gerebi (Victoria, Minn./Chanhassen) nearly found the net at 11:17, breaking in alone on Simmons, who made a blocker rejection.
• Oien and Blais-Savoie padded the lead in an otherwise quiet third period at 15:26 and 15:42, respectively, on a backdoor tap-in and a tally from the right circle.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Friday at Franklin Pierce University, 4 p.m.