10/21/06

One streak ended but the more important one continues after the Saints defeated the Purple Storm from Crown College by a 3-1 score on Saturday afternoon at Public Schools Stadium.

Riding a 14 game win streak entering the match, the Saints had not been scored upon in nine consecutive games. Saturday’s win extended the win streak to 15 but put and end to the scoreless streak.

The Saints jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first 25 minutes behind goals from Nicole Seguin and Angie Groh.

But nine seconds after Groh’s goal doubled the Saints’ lead, Crown’s Steph Lally quickly broke free after the Storm’s kick-off and sailed a high shot on frame that just grazed the bottom of the cross bar as it snuck in above a leaping and stunned Kelly Momsen – the same keeper that set a single-season Saints record for shutouts in a season with her ninth on Friday afternoon.

With the lead down to one, the Saints found themselves in a tight match with a team they’d beaten earlier in the season by a 3-0 score.

In the 38^th minute, the Saints’ Shannon Kresky received a right to left cross from Krista Parrent and beat the Storm keeper into the left side of the net to push the lead back to two, the eventual winning margin.

Momsen recorded the win for the Saints and had three saves on the afternoon. Her goals against average of 0.39 and saves percentage of .920 are both ahead of record pace for the team’s single-season marks of 0.94 and .842 set by Kristin Lammi in the 2004 season, the same year the Saints set the team record for consecutive wins with 19.

St. Scholastica (17-1-1, 14-0-0 UMAC) completed their third consecutive unbeaten mark in conference play with the defeat of Crown (13-7-0, 9-5-0). Their last regular-season defeat at the hands of a UMAC opponent was a 2-1 loss to Minnesota-Morris on October 12, 2003.