COLCHESTER, Vt. - Saint Michael's College field hockey senior goalkeeper
Joelle Cameron (West Bridgewater, Mass./West Bridgewater) made 25 saves to break the program's 36-year-old program record for career saves during a 5-0 Northeast 10 Conference loss to Southern New Hampshire University on Wednesday at Duffy Field. Cameron now has 466 stops, surpassing
Jean Harbeck's '90 prior mark of 455.
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RECORDS
- Saint Michael's (0-11, 0-5 NE10), Southern New Hampshire (7-4, 3-2 NE10)
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS
OPPONENT LEADERS
- Junior Zoe Demers, 2 goals
- Junior Amelia Crocombe, 1 goal, 1 assist
- Junior Abby Forbes, 1 goal
- First-year Kim Dull, 1 goal
- First-year Agustina Miranda Waigand, 3 saves
GAME FACTS
- Cameron pushed her career save total to 466, not only moving past Harbeck (455) but vaulting three players to take over 13th in NE10 annals.
- With 288 saves this fall, Cameron is fourth in NCAA Division II history, recording the most since 2003. She is now third in NE10 history.
THE ACTION
- In a back-and-forth opening quarter, each team had an early scoring bid, including as first-year Sam DeGeorge (Saco, Maine/Cheverus) was turned away with a stick save by a diving Waigand in the fifth minute.
- Forbes broke through with the winner in the 14th minute, slipping a shot from the middle of the circle beyond Cameron's extended left foot.
- Demers netted her team's only other first-half goal, making it 2-0 in the 22nd minute, before Crocombe added to the lead in the 36th minute.
- Cameron made 10 saves in the final stanza alone, when the Penmen scored in one 3:35 span. Cameron recorded eight saves in a late 1:33 span.
NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME
- Saturday vs. Mercy University, 11 a.m.