NORTHFIELD, Vt. – The Norwich women's ice hockey team completed the weekend sweep of St. Michael's by shutting out the Purple Knights, 6-0, on Cadets Skate For The Cure Night 2011 at Kreitzberg Arena on Saturday night.

Norwich (12-3-1, 9-0-1 ECAC East) was led by senior team-captain Sophie Leclerc, who had two goals and one assist to push her season total up to a nation-leading 30 points.

Leclerc started the scoring just like she did on Friday night by tipping a shot from the point from Amanda Wilks past St. Michael's goaltender Erin Stevens to give the Cadets a 1-0 lead with her 14^th goal of the season at the 6:15 mark.

Despite outshooting St. Michael's 17-2, as well as hemming the Purple Knights (2-14-1, 1-8-1 ECAC East) into their defensive zone for nearly all of the period, Norwich went into the first intermission only up 1-0.

Jillayne DeBus extended the lead to 2-0 at the 6:16 mark of the second period when she poked a loose puck over the goal line after Stevens blocked Wilks' initial shot from the blue line.

Caitie Banfield finished the scoring for the period when she blasted a shot that found its way through traffic and into the back of the net to make it 3-0 Norwich at the 14:38 mark of the second period.

Sarianne Lynn kept the Norwich momentum rolling with her third goal of the season at the 4:46 mark of the third period to stretch the lead to 4-0 with an assist from Brittany Sharman.

Sharman and Lynn combined again for the next Norwich goal just 21 seconds later. This time it was Sharman who scored the goal, which was the first of her collegiate career with an assist from Lynn.

Leclerc capped the scoring with her 15^th tally of the season with an assist from Lynn at the 11:24 mark of the third period.

Norwich freshman goaltender Joanie Plamondon earned her first career shutout in the Maroon and Gold by turning aside five shots to pick up her second win of the season and improve to 2-1-1.

Stevens was saddled with the loss for St. Michael's after stopping 54 shots. She dropped to 1-7-1 on the year.

Norwich outshot St. Michael's 60-5 and was 1-for-6 on the power play. St. Michael's was 0-for-4.

A season-high crowd of 569 witnessed the two in-state rivals play for the SD Ireland Cancer Research Fund. Norwich wore special-edition pink jerseys for the second consecutive year.

Norwich returns to action next Friday when the Cadets travel to New England College, looking to extend their unbeaten streak to six straight games. Faceoff is set for 4 p.m. Norwich will then follow up with Castleton on Saturday night with faceoff set for 7 p.m. at Spartan Arena. Both games are ECAC East contests.