Monday, October 31, 2005
MORAVIAN WOMEN’S SOCCER TO HOST ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE IN
COMMONWEALTH CONFERENCE SEMIFINAL
BETHLEHEM, PA --- The Moravian College women’s soccer team has earned the second
seed in the 2005 Commonwealth Conference Tournament and will host third seeded Elizabethtown
College in a semifinal contest on Tuesday, November 1st in a match beginning at 2:00 p.m.
on the HUB Quad.
Tuesday’s other semifinal will feature top seeded Messiah College (16-0), the top
ranked team in the nation, hosting fourth seeded Lebanon Valley College at 7:00 p.m. The
semifinal winners will meet on Saturday, November 5th in the conference championship match
at the highest remaining seed. The winner of the championship contest will receive an automatic
berth in the to 2005 NCAA Division III Tournament that begins on November 9th.
The Greyhounds, who were ranked fifth in last week's NCAA Division III Mid-Atlantic Regional
Rankings released by the NSCAA and sixth in the NCAA rankings last week, are 14-4-1 on
the season. Moravian, under the direction of seventh-year head coach Eric Lambinus,
had a 5-1-1 mark during the Commonwealth Conference regular season and is making the program’s
fourth appearance in the Commonwealth Conference Tournament.
Senior forward Megan Collins (Rehoboth Beach, DE/Caesar Rodney HS) has
netted a team high 14 goals and added six assists for 34 points. Collins has
seven game-winning goals and she is second all-time at Moravian with 94 points on 39 goals
and six assists in four seasons.
Freshman midfielder/forward Tracy Fitzpatrick (Wantage, NJ/High Point Regional
HS) has scored 21 points with eight goals and seven assists. Senior defender Erin
Gonda (Bethlehem, PA/Salisbury HS) has three goals and an assist for seven points
while junior forward Kristina Adams (Belle Mead, NJ/Montgomery HS) has
contributed three goals and five assists for 11 points.
Freshman defender Alexandra Franscella (Chatham, NJ/Chatham HS) has
netted three goals, two of them game-winners, for six points this season while junior midfielder Alisha
Davy (Oaklyn, NJ/Haddon Township HS) has a goal and five assists for seven points.
Freshman midfielder Katelyn Killea (Chatham, NJ/Chatham HS) and sophomore midfielder Allison
Solomita (Chatham, NJ/Chatham HS) each have three points on a goal and an assist
while senior forward/midfielder Lindsay Pohl (West Lawn, PA/Wilson West Lawn HS) and
senior midfielder Jessica Cordani (Point Pleasant, NJ/Point Pleasant Boro HS) each
have each found the back of the net once.
Fitzpatrick, Adams and Pohl, who also
has an assist, each have scored game-winning goals. Sophomore forward Casey Simpson
(Laporte, PA/Sullivan Country HS) and sophomore midfielder Jill Newswanger
(Pine Grove, PA/Pine Grove HS) each have one assist.
Freshman goalie Caitlin Corrigan (Perkasie, PA/Pennridge HS), this week’s
Commonwealth Conference Player of the Week, has posted a 0.60 goals-against average, 55
saves, and a 13-4-1 record and nine solo shutouts in 1,654 minutes of action. Sophomore
keeper Kelly Wight (Port Murray, NJ/West Morris Central HS) has played
96 minutes with eight saves, a 1-0 record and a solo shutout, and Wight combined
on a shutout with Corrigan.
Elizabethtown enters the postseason with an overall mark of 13-5 and a 5-2 slate during
the Commonwealth Conference regular season with losses to Moravian and Messiah.
Junior forward Keeley Trumbo leads the Blue Jays in scoring with 24 points on ten goals
and four assists. Freshman midfielder/forward Jenna Russo has added nine goals and four
assists for 22 points while freshman midfielder/forward Brooke Dotterer has 21 points on
eight goals and five assists. Trumbo and Russo have each scored three game-winning goals
while Dotterer has two.
Senior forward/midfielder Heather Newswanger has contributed five goals and five assists
for 15 points with one game winning goal while junior defender Dana Moyer has scored three
goals and three assists for nine points. Junior midfielder Robin Szarzynski and sophomore
forward Jenny Fromuth have both added two goals and five assists for nine points while
senior defender Lindsay Brown has three goals and two assists for eight points. Szarzynski,
Fromuth and Brown each have game winning goals.
Senior forward/midfielder Ilana Unger has a goal and three assists this fall for Elizabethtown
while junior midfielder Kelly McCauley and freshman defender/midfielder Gretchen Geiger
have each added a goal and an assist for three points. Sophomore defender Emily Gunter
and freshman midfielder/defender Jessica Hudon have each found the back of the net twice
for two points while senior midfielder/forward Jeanette Halstead has added two assists.
Freshman defender Carly Hoskins, freshman midfielder/defender Caitlin Gallagher and senior
goalie Pam Ostroski each have an assist this season.
Ostroski has posted a 1.11 goals-against average with 40 saves, three shutouts and a
10-2 mark in 1057 minutes of action this season for the Blue Jays. Junior keeper Dawn Mellen
has a 1.33 goals-against average with 18 saves, two shutouts and a 3-3 record in 473 minutes
of action while freshman goalie Angela Freeland has three saves in 88 minutes of action.
Freshman goalie Lyndsey Reeve has posted one save while seeing 24 minutes in goal this
season.
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