Women's Soccer One Win Away From NCAA Tournament
Rich Conforti
Issue date: 11/2/09 Section: Sports
The Hounds found themselves in an early 1-0 hole, but quickly were able to bounce back in a familiar way, as Schiro put away a rebound off of a Kelly Thomas free kick attempt. The goal was the ninth on the season for Schiro, which puts her in the team lead.
The score would stay deadlocked for the remainder of regulation as well as two overtime periods, as the Jaspers out shot the Greyhounds 16-10.
In addition to advancing to the conference championship game, Loyola would also receive several individual accolades over the weekend. The Hounds would sweep the three main individual awards for the conference, taking home coach of the year, offensive player of the year, and defensive player of the year.
Coach of the year winner Katherine Vettori led the hounds to a 13-win season, with nine of those coming in conference play. The second year head coach has yet to lose a conference match in her career, going 16-0-2 in those contests.
Graduate student Theresa Ferrraina would earn MAAC offensive player of the year, scoring six goals and recording 15 points on the season. She ranks fourth all-time at the school with 24 goals and third in history with 63 points.
Capping off a dominating season, senior goalkeeper Brittany Henderson would earn MAAC defensive player of the year. Henderson would record nine shutouts on the year, good enough for tops in the conference. The award is the second of Henderson's career, as she earned the same accolades in 2007.
Henderson, Ferraina, Lina Staropoli, and Heather Cooke were first team all-league selections. In addition, Kelly Farrell and Christina Gomez were selected to the all-league second team. Leading goal scorer Nichole Schiro and Tessa McClenahan were chosen as members of the all-rookie team.
The list of individual accolades will hopefully be a side note for the Hounds on the weekend, as they are set to face Niagara in the league's championship game on Monday, November 2nd at 1:00 pm. The sixth seeded Purple Eagles defeated Marist 2-1 in overtime to earn a birth in the championship game.
The score would stay deadlocked for the remainder of regulation as well as two overtime periods, as the Jaspers out shot the Greyhounds 16-10.
In addition to advancing to the conference championship game, Loyola would also receive several individual accolades over the weekend. The Hounds would sweep the three main individual awards for the conference, taking home coach of the year, offensive player of the year, and defensive player of the year.
Coach of the year winner Katherine Vettori led the hounds to a 13-win season, with nine of those coming in conference play. The second year head coach has yet to lose a conference match in her career, going 16-0-2 in those contests.
Graduate student Theresa Ferrraina would earn MAAC offensive player of the year, scoring six goals and recording 15 points on the season. She ranks fourth all-time at the school with 24 goals and third in history with 63 points.
Capping off a dominating season, senior goalkeeper Brittany Henderson would earn MAAC defensive player of the year. Henderson would record nine shutouts on the year, good enough for tops in the conference. The award is the second of Henderson's career, as she earned the same accolades in 2007.
Henderson, Ferraina, Lina Staropoli, and Heather Cooke were first team all-league selections. In addition, Kelly Farrell and Christina Gomez were selected to the all-league second team. Leading goal scorer Nichole Schiro and Tessa McClenahan were chosen as members of the all-rookie team.
The list of individual accolades will hopefully be a side note for the Hounds on the weekend, as they are set to face Niagara in the league's championship game on Monday, November 2nd at 1:00 pm. The sixth seeded Purple Eagles defeated Marist 2-1 in overtime to earn a birth in the championship game.
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"The quarterfinal round did not go as smoothly for the hounds, as it took overtime and penalty kicks for the Hounds to knock off the Manhattan Jaspers 1-1 (5-4 penalty kicks). (Continued…)
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