Megan Methven's 35 made three-pointers this season are seven more than anyone else in the Northeast-10.

North Easton, Mass. - At what amounts to be the midway point of the 2007-08 regular season, Stonehill sits at 11-2 overall and an impressive 7-1 in Northeast-10 play. Yet what some would call the hardest part of their schedule has come and gone, because the Skyhawks went 8-2 away from Merkert Gymnasium. Now, of the 14 remaining contests, eight will be played on their home court, including five of the final seven games of the regular season.

The first of those home games is Saturday's matchup with St. Michael's, a team that hasn't defeated the Skyhawks since 2001-02. The Purple Knights have won three straight games however and stand at 8-3 overall but haven't played a game since December 19.

Stonehill holds a commanding 40-8 edge in the all-time series, and the Skyhawks have won 14 straight against the Purple Knights at Merkert Gymnasium, with St. Michael's last win in North Easton coming on February 6, 1991.

Stonehill, meanwhile, is coming off of a 60-43 win over St. Anselm on Wednesday. Junior Kelsey Simonds (Middleboro, Mass.) paced the Skyhawks with 22 points, nine rebounds and three blocks and classmate Bethany Tighe (North Easton, Mass.) added 16.

The scoring output for Simonds was her fourth 20+ point game of the season and second in three games, helping her rank fifth in the Northeast-10 in scoring at 16.5 points a night. The only Stonehill player to reach double figures in all 13 games, she has five double-doubles and four other times where she fell one rebound shy.

Sophomore Megan Methven (Corning, N.Y.), who is second on the team in scoring and ranks first in the Northeast-10 in three pointers made, could be a problem for the Purple Knights, as they allow a league-worst 36 percent production from behind the arc.