SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College women's ice hockey team opened a New England Women's Hockey Alliance (NEWHA) weekend series against Post University with a 5-0 loss on Friday in Cairns Arena. During the contest, senior Annika Lavender (Plymouth, Minn./Wayzata) broke a 13-year-old program record for career saves.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (1-7, 1-6 NEWHA), Post (2-8-1, 2-2-1 NEWHA)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Lavender, 16 saves in 20 minutes, loss
• Sophomore McKenna Dans (Marshfield, Mass./Lovell Academy), 32 saves in 39:59 of relief
• Junior Maddie Quinn (Chicago, Ill./Team Illinois AAA), 5 blocked shots
• Sophomore Julia Chedel (Haverhill, Mass./Kimball Union Academy), 4 blocked shots
• Sophomore Audrey Hetman (Gurnee, Ill./Milwaukee Jr. Admirals), 15-for-25 faceoffs
• Senior Elisabeth Gerebi (Victoria, Minn./Chanhassen), 7-for-16 faceoffs

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Junior Emma Hoen, 1 goal, 1 assist
• First-year Georgia Stevens, 1 goal, 1 assist
• Junior Jodie Rose, 2 assists
• Senior Hannah Saunders, 34 saves

GAME FACTS

• Lavender finished the day with 2,528 career saves, surpassing Erin Stevens' '13 program mark of 2,513.

THE ACTION

• Junior Isabel Goolie (Anchorage, Alaska/Gilmour Academy) and sophomore Brianna Jarvis (Swanton, Vt./BFA-Saint Albans) worked a 2-on-1 early in the contest before Goolie's quick touch out front was stopped by Saunders with 5:40 gone.
• First-year Peyton Tully put Post ahead at 13:04 on her team's third bid from out front after Lavender denied the first two, and sophomore Caryss Kehl made it 2-0 2:39 later by sending a shot home from the left point on the power play.
• Hoen added to the lead by converting Rose's backdoor pass 2:20 into the second period.
• First-year Kali Boychuk (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan/Windsor Southwest Wildcats) nearly put the hosts on the board at 10:32, when her shot from the point took a weird hop behind Saunders directly up off the crossbar.
• The Eagles scored twice in the final 3:22 off of giveaways in the Purple Knight defensive zone.
• Saint Michael's outshot the Eagles, 17-10, in a scoreless third period. Dans stopped all 10 shots sent her way.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Saturday vs. Post, 3 p.m.
• The Purple Knights host a Hope Happens Here Mental Health Awareness Game that day.