Colchester, V.T. – The Le Moyne College women's soccer team earned a point in the NE10 standings on Saturday after recording a 0-0 draw on the road against Saint Michael's College.

The Dolphins put four shots on goal during the 90 minutes compared to five for Saint Michael's. Purple Knights goalkeeper Katie Escobedo came up with four saves while Le Moyne senior goalkeeper Allison Moreau (Sauquoit, N.Y./Sauquoit Valley) stopped all five Purple Knights shots that were put on target to complete her third clean sheet of the season.

Saint Michael's freshman forward Faith Kosiba got in behind the Le Moyne defense following a creative touch from Kayleigh Crowell off a punt from goalkeeper Katie Escobedo in the 7^th minute of the game.  Kosiba tracked the ball down at the top of the 18-yard box and took a dribble into the left side of the penalty area. Marissa Lisikatos hustled back to recover on the play for Le Moyne and got her body in front of Kosiba when she took her shot. Lisikatos was unable to deflect the shot, but she cut down Kosiba's angle and Moreau dove to her left and smothered the ball to make the save.

With just under 18 minutes remaining in the first half, Marissa Lisikatos (Cold Spring, N.Y./Haldane) sent a nice pass in the air to Brooke Wilson (Rochester, N.Y./Hilton), who made a run into the left side of the Saint Michael's penalty area. Wilson brought the ball down off the bounce and continued towards the goal line, but a Saint Michael's defender was able to recover on the play and deflect Wilson's shot to the left of the goal and out of bounds for a corner kick.

In the 48^th minute freshman midfielder Payton Khadra (Grand Island, N.Y./Grand Island) received the ball on the right wing and sent a nice pass into the right side of the box for freshman winger Lindsey LeBlanc (Westminster, Mass./St. Bernard's), who took a touch towards the goal line before earning a corner kick for the Dolphins. Hildur Unnarsdóttir (Kópavogur, Iceland/Commercial College of Iceland) took the kick for Le Moyne, and her cross was sent in the air towards the middle of the box. The ball was deflected in the air and fell to the feet of freshman midfielder Sydney Wells (Latham, N.Y./Shaker), who was in the midst of her Le Moyne debut. Wells got a touch on the deflection, but the ball went wide of the left post.

Khadra received the ball near the right touchline at the edge of Le Moyne's attacking third with 36:35 left in the second half, and she dribbled skillfully up the right wing with two defenders closely monitoring her. Khadra was able to deliver a good cross that bounced in the middle of the penalty area at the edge of the six-yard box. Two Le Moyne players were nearby to go after the ball, but a Saint Michael's defender got to it first and cleared it away, back in the direction that it came from.

Khadra got to the ball again and took a one-time shot with her left foot that rolled wide of the goal.

With just under three minutes and thirty seconds left in the game, Hermine Hognerud (Oslo, Norway/Eikeli Videregående Skole) won the ball in the right side of the field and sent a great pass ahead between two defenders in the path of LeBlanc who was able to use her to speed to weave between the two Saint Michael's players and get a touch on the ball first.

After LeBlanc won possession and successfully kept the ball away from one of the defender's sliding challenge, she gathered herself about seven yards from goal and took a shot that was saved by Escobedo who had come charging off her line. On the ensuing corner kick Hognerud got a head on the cross, but her shot went over the bar and out of bounds.

With under two minutes left to play Unnarsdóttir took a Le Moyne free kick from the left side of the field close to midfield and drove the ball into the box. The ball hit the ground at the edge of the six-yard box and bounced towards the top of the goal frame. Escobedo knocked the ball up in the air and over the crossbar, willing to concede a corner rather than give up a rebound with Le Moyne players crashing the goal frame.

The Purple Knights were able to clear away the ensuing corner kick, and both sides came away with a 0-0 draw and one point in the conference standings.

The Le Moyne College women's soccer team will be back in action on Tuesday, September 27 when they take on Franklin Pierce University at home on Ted Grant Field.