COLCHESTER, Vt. - Junior Marshall Butler's (Middletown, Conn./Middletown) ninth-minute strike sent the Saint Michael's College men's soccer team past D'Youville University, 1-0, on Sunday at Duffy Field.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (3-1), D'Youville (0-3-1)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Butler, 1 goal
• Senior Muntasir Ahmed (Portland, Maine/Bridgton Academy/West Virginia Wesleyan), 1 assist
• Junior Lucas Schwalbe-Goodwin (Radstock, United Kingdom/Bath College/West Virginia Wesleyan), 1 assist
• Senior Garrett Smith (Gorham, Maine/Bridgton Academy/Bryant), 2 saves

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Sophomore Matthew Solorio, 5 saves

GAME FACTS

• The Purple Knights improved to 2-0 in the all-time series, having also won last year.
• Smith tied Patrick Melvin '06 for ninth in program history with his eighth career shutout, in just 19 games. Smith also matched Melvin and Drew Pywell '98 for ninth in wins (11).
• All three of the Purple and Gold's wins have come via shutouts.
• Saint Michael's held a 12-4 lead in shots, while both teams took five corner kicks.

THE ACTION

• In the ninth minute, Butler took a touch from Schwalbe-Goodwin before juking his defender out wide and cutting back inside between two Saints and firing a shot into the upper left corner for the game's lone goal.
• Smith kept it 1-0 in the 25th minute by diving to his right and denying a shot from first-year Luca Mansfield-Osbourne, whose bid was bothered by marking first-year back Liam Weldon (Essex, Vt./Shattuck-Saint Mary's School).
• The Purple Knights nearly doubled their lead in the 65th minute, when Ahmed rung the right post and classmate Jack Andrews' (Beverly, Mass./Bishop Fenwick) follow-up opportunity was denied by a field player on the goal line.
• D'Youville put no shots on frame in the second half, with its final chance an 87th-minute corner that was cleared out of danger.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Wednesday vs. Fisher College, 2 p.m.