CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- University of Maine's Kelsey Wilson (Gorham, Maine/Gorham) and Boston University's Kelly King (Solon, Ohio/Laurel) each led their respective teams to key wins last week and have been rewarded with America East's weekly women's soccer awards. Wilson took home Player of the Week recognition, while King was tabbed Rookie of the Week. The awards for the week ending Sept. 19 were announced Monday afternoon.
Wilson kept her torrid scoring streak going by scoring both goals in Maine’s lone game last week, a 2-1 win over Temple on Sunday, which extended its win streak to three games. The senior captain got her team on the board by finishing a cross from Maggie Malone in the 41st minute and tallied the eventual game winner in the 67th minute off a feed from Josee Descoeurs. Wilson, who has 14 points on six goals and a pair of assists on the season, has tallied all six scores in her last four games and leads America East in goals per game (0.86 gpg) and points per contest (2.0 ppg).
King continued her solid play in net to lead the Terriers to back-to-back 3-0 wins over Harvard and UConn, respectively. A freshman goalkeeper, King made 11 saves in just 90 minutes of action and picked up the win over Harvard. She made five first-half stops against the Crimson before giving way to junior Alice Binns, who played the second half. King also played the first half against the Huskies and made six stops to preserve a 0-0 tie before the offense struck three times in the second half. King, who has played in all 10 games for Boston U., ranks second among league leaders with a 1.29 goals-against average.
League play gets underway on Saturday with four contests. Binghamton hosts Maine in a rematch of last season's America East semifinal matchup, which the Black Bears won in penalty kicks. Elsewhere UMBC travels to Vermont, Boston University entertains New Hampshire and Hartford visits Stony Brook.
Team Notes
Albany (4-5-0) dropped two of its three games last week despite outshooting all of its opponents … The Great Danes started the week by falling to Colgate, 2-0, on Wednesday, Sept. 15 … The squad then earned a 1-0 win over Manhattan on Friday, Sept. 17 before ending the week with a 3-0 loss to Central Connecticut State on Sunday, Sept. 19 … Midfielder Chrissy Klepper (River Edge, N.J./River Dell) headed in the decisive goal midway through the first half against Manhattan after receiving a perfectly placed cross from midfielder Maggie DeVerna (Setauket, N.Y./Ward Melville) … DeVerna is tied for first in the America East Conference with three assists this season and leads the league with 0.33 assists per game … All of the helpers have set up the game-winning goal … Shayla Bergeron (Hudson, N.H./Alvirne) continues to lead the team in scoring … She has five goals and 10 points … Bergeron ranks third in the league in total goals and is tied for third in points … Defensively, Albany is the only school in the league to have two goalkeepers post a shutout … Sophomore Breanna Maggio (Ontario, N.Y./Wayne Central) blanked Iona in the team’s home opener, while freshman Dani Britt (Webster, N.Y./Webster Schroeder) earned her first collegiate clean sheet against Manhattan … Three of UAlbanys four victories this fall and eight of its 12 wins dating back to the beginning of the 2009 season have been by 1-0 decisions … Klepper, a co-captain, has either scored or assisted on the lone goal in four of those eight victories … The Great Danes wrap up non-conference play when they visit Bryant on Wednesday, Sept. 22 at 4 p.m.
Boston University (5-5-0) women’s soccer team improved to .500 last week with back-to-back 3-0 victories over Harvard and Connecticut, respectively ... On Thursday afternoon, the Terriers made the short trek to Harvard where they took down the Crimson by a 3-0 margin backed by goals from Jessica Luscinski (Bedofrd, N.H./Trinity), Lisa Kevorkian (Arcadia, Calif./Monrovia) and Brittany Heist (Lancaster, N.Y./Lancaster) ... Two days later, the Terriers returned to Nickerson Field for the first time in two weeks and avenged a 2009 season-ending loss to UConn with a 3-0 victory. Luscinski once again provided the fire power with a goal and an assist in the contest, while Lina Cords (Leonardtown, Md./Leonardtown) and Adrienne Anderson (Needham, Mass./The Rivers School) provided insurance goals ... It was the largest margin of victory in the series history with UConn ... With the consecutive shutouts, Boston U. now has four on the season ... The Terriers will open conference play on Sunday (Sept. 26) with a 1 p.m. contest against New Hampshire at Nickerson Field.
Binghamton (2-5-0) dropped its only game of the week, a 1-0 home setback to Iona. The Bearcats peppered Iona with 23 shots but the Gaels scored on their fifth and final shot with 14:23 remaining to steal the win ... Freshman defender Liz Cusato (Webster, N.Y./Webster Thomas) was selected as the America East Player of the Game for her steady play in back... Binghamton has a busy week leading up to its conference opener Sunday against Maine ... The team plays at Seton Hall Monday night before hosting Cornell Wednesday ... The Bearcats will use the three-games-in-seven-days stretch to try and solidify an offense that has been held to six goals in seven games ... Binghamton will have a challenge Monday night playing the Big East member Pirates, who are coming off an upset win over No. 24 Rutgers ... On Wednesday the Bearcats will host a Cornell team that is coached by former Binghamton assistant coach Danielle LaRoche ... Binghamton hosts Maine in the America East opener Sunday afternoon. Binghamton owns a 5-3-2 all-time record against the Black Bears ... Last season, the Bearcats posted a 1-0 win at Orono and then eliminated Maine in the America East semifinals on penalty kicks.
Hartford (3-6-0) split its games last week, falling at Central Conn. State, 3-1, before defeating Saint Joseph’s at home, 3-1 ... The goals scored against Saint Joseph’s were the first of the season at home for Hartford ... Senior Michelle Babin (Shelton, Conn./Shelton) scored her first career goal to give the Hawks a 1-0 lead midway through the first period against St. Joe’s ... The score, which came off a pass from Caroline Dixon (Manchester, England/Irlam and Cadishead Community/Oklahoma City Univ.), marked the first points for Babin since she dished out two assists as a sophomore in 2008 ... Hartford scored the eventual game winner off a corner kick, which was put in play by Shealagh Begley (West Hartford, Conn./Northwest Catholic) and directed from Amelia Pereira (Madeira Island, Portugal/Escola da APEL/Martin Methodist College) to Nicole Weil (Garden Grove, Calif./Pacifica/Cypress College) 10 yards out for the score ... The goal marked the first time since August 29 (4-3 loss at Temple) that Hartford put together a multi-goal game ... Pereira closed the scoring with a breakaway goal assisted by Breeanna Robinson (East Hampstead, N.H./Pinkerton Academy) ... Robinson scored the Hawks’ only goal in a 3-1 loss at CCSU, converting a well-placed pass from just inside midfield by Julianne Oberholtzer (Holland, Pa./Council Rock) ... Lauren Brodeur (Wilbraham, Mass./Wilbraham Monson Academy) had 12 saves in the two games, including a season-high eight against the Blue Devils ... Hartford concludes its non-conference schedule at Fairfield on Thursday evening before opening conference play at Stony Brook on Sunday afternoon.
Maine (4-3-0) won its third straight game 2-1 over Temple ... The Black Bears wrapped up their non-conference schedule with a 4-3-0 record ... Captain Kelsey Wilson (Gorham, Maine/Gorham) has scored at least one goal in each of her last four games and has scored four in her last two. She has notched the game-winning goal in the last two games as well ... Wilson will lead a young team into conference play. The Black Bears started seven underclassmen in the win over Temple and started eight in their first win ever at Rhode Island ... UMaine will put their three game winning streak on the line in the America East opener Sunday at Binghamton.
UMBC (1-6-1) dropped a pair of games last week, falling to George Mason, 4-3, and American, 1-0 … The Retrievers took a 2-0 lead at home against the Patriots on Wednesday but allowed four second-half goals … Freshman forward Amy Savage (Ottawa, Ontario/Sir Wilfrid Laurier), the reigning America East Rookie of the Week, gave UMBC a 1-0 advantage in the 21st minute … Freshman midfielder Nicole Clark (Ellicott City, Md./Howard) had the assist… With just over three minutes left, freshman midfielder Stephanie Smith (Severna Park, Md./Archbishop Spalding) blasted a high arching shot from 28 yards out that found the top left corner of the net for a 2-0 lead… After George Mason scored three times in the first 15 minutes, sophomore forward Rachel McKee (Ellicott City, Md./Mount Hebron) knotted the score at 3-3 with a penalty-kick goal, but the Patriots took the lead for good in the 67th minute … Freshman goalie Lauren Kadet (Oakville, Ontario/Sir Thomas Aquinas) made nine saves … UMBC was shut out by American on the road on Sunday… Kadet stopped three Eagle shots … UMBC’s nine goals have been scored by eight different players … Five freshmen have accounted for 13 of UMBC’s 26 points, led by Savage, who has scored a team-best six points on two goals and two assists … One of four rookies to start at least six of UMBC’s eight games this season, Kadet leads the America East with 7.0 saves per game … The Retrievers visit cross-town rival Loyola on Wednesday before opening America East Conference play at Vermont on Sunday.
New Hampshire (3-4-2) went 1-1-0 last week, suffering a tough 3-1 defeat at Northeastern on Friday night before recording its first shutout of 2010 in a 1-0 win against Bryant at home Sunday. The win over the Bulldogs snapped a four-game skid ... In the victory, which blemished Bryant’s perfect road record, junior Brooke Duchaney (Hampton Falls, N.H./Winnacunnet/Bryant) burned her former team with a goal in the 38th minute that eventually lifted UNH to victory ... Duchaney, who played her freshman season with the Bulldogs, was set up by some crisp passing from sophomore Chelsea Kuss (Warners, N.Y./West Genesee) and classmate Stephanie Gilkenson (Cranston, R.I./LaSalle Academy) ... It was just Gilkenson’s second game of the season after returning from injury Friday night ... It was the second assist of the week for Kuss, who set up the first goal of the year for junior Jordyn Krall (Duxbury, Mass./Duxbury) against Northeastern ... Freshman goalkeeper Erica Correa (Cheshire, Conn./Cheshire) earned the first shutout of her career with three saves against Bryant.
Stony Brook (1-7-0) defeated Manhattan, 4-1, in the their final non-conference game of the season on Sunday afternoon at LaValle Stadium ... sophomore Taryn Schoenbeck (Newark, Del.) scored just 3:31 into the game ... it was one of three first-half goals for the Seawolves ... freshman goalkeeper Chelsea Morales (Temecula, Calif.) earned her first collegiate victory ... It was the Seawolves most goals in a game since scoring five against UMBC last season ... Junior Holly Razzaghi (Bloomsburg, Pa.) scored a goal and added an assist ... The Seawolves finished non-conference play 1-7-1 ... SBU had the same record at the completion of non-conference play last season ... the Seawolves then 5-0-1 in their first six conference games ... Stony Brook opens conference play against Hartford on Sunday at LaValle Stadium ... The Seawolves tied the Hawks, 0-0, last season ... Stony Brook defeated Hartford, 1-0, in 2008 at LaValle Stadium ... Colleen McKenna (Manorville, N.Y.) scored the only goal of the game in the 19th minute.
Vermont (1-7-0) went 0-3 on the week during a three-game homestand ... The Catamounts are riding a seven-game losing streak and have been shutout in five of the last six games ... Freshman Haley Marks (Penfield, N.Y./Penfield) scored her second career goal in a 2-1 loss to Temple ... Classmate Morgan Nichols (Concord, Calif./Clayton Valley) earned her first career start in net for Vermont in the loss to Temple ... Sophomore Alyssa Kelley (Southampton, N.J./Seneca) made 10 saves in two games on the week ... Vermont travels to American University on Friday (Sept. 24) for a 4 p.m. match and then returns home to host UMBC on Sunday (Sept. 26) at noon in the America East opener for the Catamounts.