COLCHESTER, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College field hockey team lost to Saint Thomas Aquinas College, 3-2, during Northeast-10 Conference play on Saturday at Duffy Field.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (2-12, 2-7 NE10), Saint Thomas Aquinas (3-11, 2-7 NE10)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Senior Allie Medeiros (East Greenwich, R.I./Saint Mary Academy – Bay View), 1 goal
• Junior Ashley Boucher (Colchester, Vt./Rice Memorial), 1 goal (1st career)
• Graduate student Bridgie Loughlin (Kingston, N.Y./Kingston), 1 assist
• Senior Addy Fenton (Andover, Mass./Phillips Academy), 1 assist
• Senior Riley O'Connor (Canton, Mass./Canton), 12 saves

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Graduate student Hailey Galison, 1 goal, 1 assist, 3 defensive saves
• Senior Madelyn Verstrasten, 1 goal
• First-year Madelief Heijmans, 1 goal
• Senior Madeline Schaefer, 2 saves in 30 minutes
• First-year Ailsa Ogilvie, 1 save in 30 minutes of relief, win

GAME FACTS

• The Purple Knights held a 20-7 advantage on penalty corners and a 20-18 upper hand in shots.
• Loughlin's 23rd career assist tied Seanna Poelaert '00 for third in program history.
• O'Connor became the third goalkeeper in program history to reach the 400-save plateau (404) for a career.

THE ACTION

• The Purple and Gold nearly converted in the seventh minute on a shot in front of the cage from first-year Ruby Harrington (Barre, Vt./Spaulding), but Galison made a defensive save to keep the Purple Knights off the scoreboard.
• O'Connor came out of the cage to make a stop on a breakaway in the 14th minute by senior Nicola Van Vuuren to stop the Spartans from converting a late first-period goal.
• The Spartans scored early in the second quarter in the 17th minute after Heijmans tapped in a loose ball following a scrum in front of the goal line to give the Spartans a 1-0 lead.
• Medeiros scored for the Purple Knights in the 37th minute by tipping Loughlin's pass from the point during a penalty corner sequence to equalize the game at 1-1.
• Galison converted on a penalty stroke in the 53rd minute to give Saint Thomas Aquinas a 2-1 lead.
• The Spartans scored in the final minute of the contest when Galison sent a pass from the end line in front of the cage that found Verstraten, who connected for a goal making the score 3-1 with 23 seconds left.
• The Purple Knights scored with one second remaining in the game when Fenton sent a pass from the point into the circle that Boucher redirected to score and trim the deficit to 3-2.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

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