COLCHESTER, Vt. - The regionally-ranked Saint Michael's College women's soccer team blanked the University of Maine Fort Kent, 2-0, on Wednesday evening on Duffy Field. The Purple Knights were ninth in this week's United Soccer Coaches East Region poll, while the Bengals are second in the latest United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) Division I national poll.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (6-1-1), Maine-Fort Kent (4-5-1)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Senior Christina Cummings (Queensbury, N.Y./Queensbury), 1 goal
• First-year Scarlett Brookes (Rockaway, N.J./Morris Knolls), 1 goal
• Junior Juliana Anastopoulos (Chestnut Hill, Mass./Brookline), 2 saves

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Sophomore Dreanna Thaw, 4 saves

GAME FACTS

• Brookes scored her team-high fifth goal of the season, all in the last six games.
• Saint Michael's was last 6-1-1 in 2000.
• The Purple Knights improved to 5-0 in the all-time series, with a 10-0 scoring lead.
• Maine-Fort Kent is a perennial national championship contender, winning nine USCAA titles since 2010.
• Saint Michael's used 20 players off of its bench, and 31 in all saw action, with only three field players seeing as many as 50 minutes of action.
• Either a first-year or a senior has scored the last eight Purple Knight goals.
• Anastopoulos moved into the program's top 10 in both career wins and shutouts, tying for eighth in clean sheets (5) and tying for ninth in victories (10).
• Saint Michael's held a 16-3 lead in shots and a 7-1 advantage in corner kicks.

THE ACTION

• Brookes put the Purple Knights ahead to stay in the sixth minute, taking a pass near the sideline before carrying 25 yards under pressure and slipping a shot inside the right post.
• Cummings doubled the lead in the 64th minute, finishing from the left side of the box after passes from first-years Elisa Damori (Lake Oswego, Ore./Lakeridge) and Lola Follansbee (Grafton, Mass./Grafton).

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Saturday vs. Pace University, 12 p.m.