Senior wing Vanessa Emond scored one goal and assisted on two others and rookie goaltender Carmen MacDonald made some spectacular saves in earning her sixth straight win as St. Lawrence University's women's team closed out the non-league portion of its 2011-12 season with a 6-1 win over the University of Vermont at Appleton Arena Tuesday night.

MacDonald, selected as a CollegeSports360.com Prime Time Performer for her play in wins over Boston College and Northeastern last weekend, made her sixth consecutive start. She is the second Saint athlete to earn the award, which recognizes the top performances among Division I athletes nationally in a given week. She had three breakaway saves among her 28 stops in Tuesday's win.

"Carmen has been playing very well and she is obviously a big reason why we have been successful on the penalty kill lately. We made a couple of mistakes that gave them some one-on-ones, but she did a great job of playing each one of them," said Saint coach Chris Wells. "We also did a good job of getting sticks on passes in the defensive end and disrupting Vermont's offense."

The Saints finished the non-league portion of their schedule with a 6-3-2 record with all three of the losses coming against top ten teams. With the win over Vermont they went 4-1-2 against Hockey East teams with the lone loss to fourth ranked Boston University. The Saints take a 11-7-3 overall mark into games at Brown and Yale Friday and Saturday

Grad student Karell Emard and junior Kelly Sabatine wasted little time in extending their scoring streaks as they collaborated on the game's first goal just 5:18 into the first period. Sabatine took a pass in the neutral zone from linemate Rylee Smith and broke toward the net with Emard streaking toward the far post. Sabatine drew UVM goalie Roxanne Douville to the right post and fired a goal mouth pass to Emard, who scored her seventh of the year into the wide open net. It marked the sixth straight game with a point for Emard and the fifth straight for Sabatine.

The Saints outshot Vermont 17-8 in the first period with three of the eight Vermont shots on goal coming from outside the zone. MacDonald did have to come up big on a breakaway by Vermont senior Chelsea Rapin with 2:58 to go in the first, but made the blocker save to keep the Saints in front.

St. Lawrence opened it up in the second period. Sophomore defenseman Mel Desrochers started a four-goal barrage with her fifth of the season as her shot from the right point caught the inside of the far post with Michelle Ng and Bailey Habscheid assisting at 6:23. The Saints then killed off 54 seconds of UVM five-on-three power play with the help of a quartet of saves from MacDonald, and following the penalty kill built a cushion with goals just 38 seconds apart.

Brooke Fernandez scored the first of the two goals, her sixth of the season, as she pinched from her defensive position on a rush and tucked the puck past Douville with Alley Bero picking up the assist at 11:51. The Saints then won the center ice draw, forced another in the Vermont end and scored when Emond worked the puck to Ng who tucked it under the post for her third of the year with Bailey Habscheid also assisting at 12:29. Habscheid completed the scoring flurry for the Saints when she tipped a shot from the point by Fernandez inside the right post with Emond picking up her third second of the period at 16:41.

Vermont senior wing Chelsea Rapin put Vermont on the board with 1:48 to go in the period as she tucked her own rebound past MacDonald after the Saint goaltender made the initial save.

Emond completed the scoring at 6:33 of the third when she pounced on a rebound of a shot by Smith and flipped it over Douville for her fifth of the season.

The Saints killed off another 1:09 of five on three in the third period and held Vermont scoreless on five power play attempts. SLU has now killed 21 of the last 22 opposing power plays.