EAST MEADOW, N.Y. - The eighth-seeded Saint Michael's College women's ice hockey team trailed top-seeded Long Island University by a single goal until late in regulation of a season-ending 2-0 loss on Saturday in game two of a New England Women's Hockey Alliance (NEWHA) Championship quarterfinal series in the Northwell Health Ice Center. LIU swept the two-game weekend set.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (4-32), LIU (21-11-4)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Junior Annika Lavender (Plymouth, Minn./Wayzata), 29 saves
• Sophomore Maddie Quinn (Chicago, Ill./Team Illinois AAA), 3 blocked shots
• Graduate student Mary Leys (Newport, R.I./Saint George's School), 9-for-16 faceoffs
• Sophomore Anna Jerylo (Stillwater, Minn./Gentry Academy), 7-for-10 faceoffs
• Sophomore Alizée LeBlanc (Dieppe, New Brunswick/Ridley College), 6-for-14 faceoffs

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Junior Anya Weilandt, 1 goal
• First-year Drew Dyczkowski, 1 goal
• Graduate student Abbie Thompson, 25 saves

GAME FACTS

• The Purple Knights held a 22-21 lead in faceoff wins while being trimmed in shots, 31-25.
• Leys completed her career having played a school-record 129 games. Seniors Grace Canterbury (Eagle River, Alaska/Shattuck-Saint Mary's School), Gaby Tribelli (Montreal, Quebec/Dawson College) and Angelina Ruiz (Independence, Minn./Gentry Academy) finished second (125), third (123) and fourth (119), respectively. Ruiz also tied for eighth in goals (21).
• Lavender finished the season with 770 saves, good for seventh in program history, and heads into her senior year second at the College in career stops (2,280).

THE ACTION

• The teams traded one scoreless power-play opportunity apiece in the opening period, with LeBlanc having a shot during each denied by Thompson.
• The Purple Knights held a 13-7 lead in second-period shots, including sending three on net during a 26-second stretch of 4-on-4 play around the 13-minute mark, but each were stopped.
• Late in a Saint Michael's power play, LIU broke the deadlock, as a takeaway along the boards led to a 2-on-1 break, during which Dyczkowski had an initial shot from the slot stopped before slipping a puck through Lavender on the rebound with 35 seconds remaining.
• Lavender stopped the first 14 shots sent her way in the third period to keep the Purple Knights within striking distance, including six during a pair of LIU power plays.
• With Lavender pulled for an extra skater and Saint Michael's on a power play, Weilandt flipped a loose puck in the slot the length of the ice for an empty-net goal and the Sharks' second shorthanded tally of the game with 2:15 remaining.
• Ruiz's bid at 17:57, which came with the goalie again pulled, was saved for the Purple Knights' final attempt on net.