Sports News: Fall 2002

Monday, September 23, 2002

TRIO NAMED MORAVIAN STUDENT-ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

BETHLEHEM, PA --- Sophomore Jill Vaccaro (South Salem, NY/John Jay HS) from the women’s soccer team, junior Kim Zipf (Wyomissing, PA/Holy Name HS) of the women’s volleyball squad and sophomore Patrick Grogan (Nazareth, PA/Notre Dame HS) from the men’s cross country team have been named the Moravian College Student-Athletes of the Week for their performances last week.

Vaccaro, a goalie, was in net for two of Moravian’s three shutout victories last week as the Greyhounds posted a 3-0 week to run their winning streak to five straight matches. Vaccaro made two saves in a 3-0 victory at DeSales University and she added two more saves as the Greyhounds opened Commonwealth Conference play with a 2-0 victory over Juniata College. For the season, Vaccaro has four shutouts, a 5-2 record, a 0.71 goals-against average and she has allowed five goals and made 24 saves in seven contests. Moravian is 6-2 this fall and hosts Wilkes University on Monday, September 23rd at 4:00 p.m. in a non-conference match.

Zipf, an outside hitter, led the Greyhounds to a pair of victories last week and hit a milestone of her own while helping Moravian head coach Shelley Bauder reach another milestone. Zipf had 24 kills and six digs as Moravian opened the 2002 Commonwealth Conference season with a 3-1 victory at Widener University. The victory was the 200th of Bauder’s ten-year career at Moravian and gave her a career mark of 200-100. Zipf turned in 12 kills and seven digs in Moravian’s 3-0 victory at DeSales University last Thursday. The 12 kills gave Zipf exactly 1,000 for her career, a mark only three other Greyhounds have reached. The school record for kills is 1,453. For the week, Zipf averaged 6.0 kills and 2.1 digs per game while hitting .371. Moravian is currently 8-3 on the season and returns to action on Monday, September 23rd in a non-conference home match with Muhlenberg College at 7:00 p.m.

Grogan paced Moravian's ten male cross country runners at the 2002 Elizabethtown College Invitational with a time of 28:35 on the 8,000-meter course, good enough for a seventh place finish. The Greyhounds finished third of nine schools at the meet which was run at Lancaster Country Central Park in Lancaster, PA, the site of the 2002 Middle Atlantic Conference Championships in November. Moravian will compete at the Paul Short Invitational hosted by Lehigh University on Saturday, September 28th.