COLCHESTER, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College women's lacrosse team saw its season come to an end on Tuesday with a 16-11 loss to Bentley University in Northeast 10 Conference play at Duffy Field.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (5-12, 3-6 NE10), Bentley (7-8, 5-4 NE10)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Junior Ginnie Hamilton (Middletown, R.I./Middletown), 6 goals, 9 draw controls
• Junior Audrey Conover (West Newbury, Mass./Pentucket Regional), 2 goals, 2 assists, 3 ground balls, 2 draw controls
• First-year Elle Murphy (Brockton, Mass./Cardinal Spellman), 2 goals, 1 assist
• Sophomore Mia Sullivan (Natick, Mass./Natick), 1 goal, 1 assist, 2 ground balls
• First-year Aby Amigo (Essex, Mass./Pingree School), 6 saves, 2 ground balls
• Senior Abbie Whitley (Londonderry, N.H./Londonderry), 3 ground balls, 3 caused turnovers
• Sophomore Kayla Adam (New Egypt, N.J./New Egypt/Saint Francis [Pa.]), 3 ground balls, 2 caused turnovers
• Senior Sophia Lynch (West Hartford, Conn./Conard), 2 caused turnovers, 2 draw controls
• Junior Julia Barbato (Reading, Mass./Reading Memorial), 3 caused turnovers
• Senior Ellie Drinkwater (North Kingstown, R.I./North Kingstown), 2 ground balls

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Senior Caitlin Keenan, 1 goal, 5 assists
• Sophomore Callie Burchill, 4 goals, 1 assist
• Senior Sophia Pope, 3 goals, 1 assist
• Junior Lauren Rochel, 5 saves in 30 minutes, win
• First-year Annika Sallila, 4 saves in 30 minutes of relief
• Sophomore Autumn Mathews, 5 ground balls, 5 caused turnovers

GAME FACTS

• The Purple Knights would have qualified for the seven-team NE10 Championship with a victory but will end the year tied for seventh place in the league with Southern New Hampshire University, which wins the tiebreaker for the No. 7 seed due to its win over Saint Michael's on March 11.
• Conover finished with the fourth-highest point total in program history (62) this spring, tallying the most by a Purple Knight since 2008, and the fourth-best assist figure (22), recording the most since 2014. Her 40 goals were also good for 10th, also with the highest since 2008.
• Hamilton set a school record for draw controls (83) this year, and 165 for her career put her second in program annals, only to Lynch's record 172. Lynch will graduate 14th in school history with 125 career points and just short of the top 10 with 93 goals.
• Whitley caps her career standing fourth at Saint Michael's in caused turnovers (82) while tying a school record by appearing in 60 games, earning a start in every contest.
• Drinkwater ends up tied for 10th in program history in career ground balls (123) with Noel Smith '06 and ninth in caused turnovers (52).
• Barbato's 29 caused turnovers this season were good for seventh in program history, and she heads into her senior season seventh in school annals with 72 for a career.
• Amigo's 162 saves this year were a program record for a rookie and good for sixth overall, with the most since Sandy Palumbo '12 had 202 in 2011.

THE ACTION

• Bentley led 4-0 by 6:17 of the first quarter, scoring the opening three goals in a matter of 2:37, all assisted by Keenan.
• Hamilton scored twice to spark a 3-0 response, but Keenan notched a goal and two assists across the first four goals of a 9-2 run that provided the Falcons a 15-7 lead with 5:57 left in regulation.
• Saint Michael's staged a late rally, with Conover scoring at 3:14 and Hamilton needing only 1:26 to record three additional goals, and the hosts were within 15-11 with 1:26 to go.
• However, Bentley junior Emily Hayward won the ensuing draw, and senior Natalia Dutkewych scored a woman-down strike with 40 seconds left that iced the game.