CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-- University at Albany senior Michele Polizois (Oceanport, N.J./Shore Regional) earned the America East field hockey player of the week for her clutch performance against tough opponents last week. The league's rookie of the week, Maine's Kelly Newton (Vancouver, British Columbia/Crofton House School) exploded on the offensive end of the field last week and leads the Black Bears in scoring. View complete weekly release in PDF.
Polizois recorded three goals in two games last week, including the gamewinner in a 3-2 victory over 16th-ranked Michigan on Friday. The senior midfielder then tallied two goals in a 4-3 double overtime loss to Kent State on Sunday. All three of her goals came on penalty corners. Polizois, who led all players with six shots on goal against Kent State, leads the conference in scoring with seven goals and one assist for 15 total points.
Newton tallied three goals and three assists on the weekend, including a hat trick and two assists for an eight-point effort against Bryant. The next day against Quinnipiac, the rookie added an assist and a team-high four shots. Newton now leads the team with 13 points. This is her second weekly award of the season.
Team Notebooks:
UAlbany (5-3 overall, 0-0 America East),
ranked 20th in the NFHCA Coaches’ Poll last week, faced off against
#16 Michigan on Friday before hosting Kent State
at Alumni Turf Field on Sunday... The Great Danes defeated the Wolverines, 3-2,
before falling to the Golden Flashes, 4-3, in double overtime... Senior
midfielder Michele Polizois (Oceanport, N.J./Shore Regional) scored three goals
on the week, including the gamewinner against Michigan... Polizois added two tallies, both
on penalty corners, versus Kent
State, and leads the
Great Danes with seven goals and one assist for 15 total points... Junior forward
Nicole Savage (Wilkes-Barre, Pa./James
M. Coughlin) scored a goal and added an assist against Michigan... Junior midfielder Jess Lindsey (Norristown, Pa./Methacton)
has recorded six assists on the season after assisting both of Polizois’ goals
on Sunday... Lindsey is now tied for first on UAlbany’s career assists chart with
33... Senior goalkeeper Ashley Ross (Lancaster,
Pa./Conestoga Valley) played
complete games in the cage for UAlbany in the two games over the weekend,
making six saves in both contests... Ross boasts a .782 save percentage and a
1.79 goals against average on the season... The Great Danes will host Colgate in
a midweek game on Wednesday evening before visiting Massachusetts on Saturday... UAlbany will
close out the week with a 2 p.m. game against Princeton
at Alumni Turf Field on Sunday.
Boston University (3-5, 0-0) had its first
three-game week of the season, posting a 1-0 victory over Central Michigan and falling to a pair of ranked
opponents in No. 6 Iowa and No. 12 Boston College... In the win over
the Chippewas, senior Sheena Berry (Edinburgh, Scotland/Univ. of Edinburgh)
recorded her first goal as a Terrier in the early stages of the second half and
added a pair of defensive saves to preserve the shutout ... On Wednesday, Boston
U. had answers to two early BC goals but came out on the short end of a 4-2
contest... Junior Nikki Lloyd (Kent, England/Virginia Commonwealth)
scored a goal and freshman Kate Murphy (Millbury, Mass./Notre Dame Academy) recorded her first
collegiate tally, while junior Gabby Hajjar (Ottawa
Hills, Ohio/Ottawa Hills) earned a
pair of assists... Sophomore Kim Kastuk (Putnam Valley, N.Y.), who made two
saves to earn the shutout against Central Michigan, made a career-best 13
saves versus Iowa on Sunday, but the Hawkeyes came away with a
5-1 victory to avenge last year’s double-overtime victory by the Terriers in the
NCAA First Round... Senior Hayly Ross (North Yarmouth, Maine/Greely)
scored Boston U.'s lone goal, which was assisted by sophomore Maryette
Stuart (Cumberland, Maine/Greely), who added two defensive saves on the week...
Eight different players have scored the Terriers' 10 goals this season...
Boston U. will welcome perennial power Old Dominion to Jack
Barry Field on Saturday (Sept. 27) before hosting Virginia the following
day at BC's Newton Campus Field.
The Stags (2-6, 0-0) stopped a five-game
losing streak with a 5-1 win over Siena College over the weekend. Emily
Janis scored two goals in the game to lift Fairfield to victory. Her
four points raised her career scoring total to 39 points (14 goals,
11 assists), moving her into ninth place all-time at Fairfield. Her
14 goals also ties her for 10th all-time at Fairfield... Marit
Westenberg scored her team-leading fourth goal of the season against
Siena, giving her at least one goal in four of her eight appearances.
She also leads the team in scoring with 10 points...The Stags improved
to 2-1 at home following the win against Siena, and bring a modest two-game
home winning streak into this week’s three-game home stand... Fairfield
will host Columbia on September 24, followed by Lock Haven on September
27, and Cornell on September 28... Fairfield outshot the opposition in
both games last week. The team has outshot the opposition in six of
its eight games this season, and owns a 120-84 advantage in shots on
the season.
Maine (3-4, 0-0) went 1-1 over the
weekend with a 7-0 victory over Bryant and a 4-2 setback against
Quinnipiac...Against Bryant, rookie of the week Kelly Newton (Vancouver, British
Columbia/Crofton House School) had a hat trick with two assists for an
eight-point effort...Junior Ellen Andrews (New Glasgow, Prince Edward
Island/University of Prince Edward Island) had a goal and an assist in the
game...Jackie D’Amato (Upton, Mass./Nipmuc), Stephanie Gardiner (Vancouver,
British Columbia/Crofton House School) and Courtney Veinotte (Canaan,
Maine/Skowhegan) each added a goal...Brittany Fleck (Vancouver, British
Columbia/Crofton House School) made one save for her first career shutout...Maine
outshot Bryant by a 35-to-two margin...Against Quinnipiac, Maine outshot the
Bobcats 21-16...Freshmen Jocelyn Mitchell (Kanata, Ontario/Earl of March
Secondary) and Gardiner scored for Maine...Newton added an assist on Gardiner’s
goal...Newton leads the team in scoring with 13 points while Gardiner is second
with nine...Maine has outshot its opponents by a 148-84 margin including an 89-45
advantage in shots on goal... Maine returns to action on Sunday at Providence at
1 p.m. New Hampshire (4-4,
0-0) went 1-2 last week with a 4-3 overtime win at the College of the
Holy Cross followed by losses to 11th-ranked University of
Louisville, 4-3 in overtime, and third-ranked Syracuse, 10-0... The game at Holy
Cross marked the Wildcats’ first OT game of the season... Freshman forward Hayley
Rausch (Severna Park, Md./Severna Park) tallied career highs in both goals
(two) and points (four) in the overtime
loss to Louisville, which was played at Syracuse... In that game, Rausch gave the
Wildcats a 1-0 lead and forced the extra session with a goal on an untimed
penalty corner at the end of regulation... Senior forward Sarah Craigue (Concord,
N.H./Concord) has a personal best of five goals this season, and the 13 points
ties her previous high... Freshman goalkeeper Katherine Nagengast (Westborough,
Mass./Westborough) made her first career start at Holy Cross; she exited the
game at halftime with two saves and the 'Cats trailing 2-1... Fellow freshman
goalie Jenna Lehman (Kingston, Pa./Wyoming Valley West) recorded double digits
in saves for the second time this season with 10 against Louisville... Kiera
Williams (Dover, N.H./St. Thomas Aquinas) recorded her team-leading third
defensive save of the season with one at Syracuse... All four of UNH’s losses
have been to nationally-ranked teams... In the other four games, the Wildcats
have outscored the opposition 15-7... UNH concludes its stretch of five
consecutive games away from home this week with games at Lafayette (Sept. 26)
and Rutgers (Sept. 28).
Vermont (3-4, 0-0) dropped a pair of contests last week,
both on the road... On Friday the Cats fell to Kent State 3-0 in a
neutral site game at Albany... It marked the first ever meeting between
the two schools and the first time that Vermont was held scoreless this
year... Friday was the first of two neutral site games for the Cats this
season... The following day Vermont lost at Massachusetts, 2-0... Junior
Kristen Heavens (Harwinton, Conn./Lewis Mills) made seven saves in goal
for UVM against the Minutewomen... The Cats received a vote in the
latest STX/NFHCA poll... Both of Vermont's opponents on the week were
receiving votes as well... The Catamounts are back in action on
Wednesday when they travel to face Dartmouth and then face William
& Mary on Sunday in a neutral site game at Harvard.