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CIARLETTA LEADS UMASS BOSTON OVER SMC, 7-3 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                               FOR MORE INFORMATION February 7, 2004                                                                                Contact: Seth Cole Courtesy UMass Boston Sports Information                                          Phone: (802) 654-2537 BOSTON, Mass. – Freshman forward Andrea Ciarletta (Watertown, Mass.) tallied five points for the second straight day, including a career-high four goals and her fourth hat trick of the season to lead the University of Massachusetts Boston women’s ice hockey team to a 7-3 victory over Saint Michael’s College in an ECAC East contest this afternoon at the Clark Athletic Center on the campus of UMass Boston. The Beacons improve to 9-9-1 overall and 5-7-1 in ECAC East, while the Purple Knights fall to 2-17-1 and 1-12-0. Ciarletta’s first goal of the game gave UMass Boston the lead for good at 2-1 with 3:55 left in the first period.  Her second goal proved to be the eventual game-winner, giving the Beacons a 4-2 margin with 3:56 left in the second period.  Ciarletta’s next two scores came at 4:58 and 13:04 of the final period and were both set up by sophomore forward Annie Larson (Park River, N.D.), who finished with a career-high three assists, and freshman forward Melissa Belmonte (South Boston, Mass.), who assisted on each of Ciarletta’s goals for a career-best four assists. Freshman Kasie Scafariello (Wallingford, Conn./The Gunnery School) struck the game’s first blow, scoring at the 7:04 mark of the first period to give Saint Michael’s its first lead of the weekend at 1-0.  Sophomore forward Cristin Teifer (Cranbury, N.J.) answered right away for UMass Boston with her first collegiate goal just 1:02 later to knot the score at 1-1.  Sophomore forward Molly Norton (Milton, Mass.) netted her 10th goal of the season to give the Beacons a 3-1 advantage at 4:07 of the second period, but junior Meg Lyons (Boxborough, Mass./Acton-Boxborough Regional) came back with a score for the Purple Knights to cut the deficit to 3-2 at the 6:38 mark of the middle period.  Belmonte scored her 16th goal of the year at 12:52 of the second stanza as one of her five points on the day to match a personal-best and increase the UMass Boston lead to 6-2.  Freshman Melissa Gagne (Eliot, Maine/Berwick Academy) capped the day’s scoring for Saint Michael’s with a goal coming with just seven seconds remaining in the game to make it 7-3. Freshman Shannon Palmer (Lynn, Mass.) stopped 14 shots to earn the win for the Beacons, while junior Marcy Ring (North Attleboro, Mass./Saint George's) made 43 saves for the Purple Knights. The Purple Knights complete their home schedule with a pair of contests at Cairns Arena against New England College next weekend. They play Saturday at 6 p.m. and Sunday at 3:20 p.m. Saint Michael’s College (2-17-1, 1-12-0 ECAC East)       1          1          1    -      3 UMass Boston (9-9-1, 5-7-1 ECAC East)                       2          2          3    -      7 Scoring First Period: SMC- Kasie Scafariello (Unassisted) 7:04.  UMB- Cristin Teifer (Leanne Corsino) 8:06.  UMB- Andrea Ciarletta (Melissa Belmonte) 16:05. Second Period: UMB- Molly Norton (Garbrielle Goodrow, Kerri Zizzo) 4:07.  SMC- Meg Lyons (Melissa Gagne, Michelle Miaskiewicz) 6:38.  UMB- Ciarletta (Belmonte) 16:04. Third Period: UMB- Ciarletta (Belmonte, Annie Larson) 4:58.  UMB- Belmonte (Ciarletta, Larson) 12:52.  UMB- Ciarletta (Belmonte, Larson) 13:04.  SMC- Gagne (Lyons, Miaskiewicz) 19:53.         Saves: UMB- (Shannon Palmer) 14  SMC- (Marcy Ring) 43 Attendance: 246 For complete box score, click here. ###PURPLEKNIGHTS###

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