Binghamton Continues Strong Start; Saager, Corbi Earn #AEWSOC Week #4 Awards
BOSTON – Five #AEWSOC programs earned victories last week, including Binghamton, which at 5-1-2 is off to its best eight-game start since its 2004 America East championship-winning season.
Here are the conference's week four award winners:
Player of the Week
Kayla Saager, Binghamton - Jr., Forward, East Islip, N.Y.
- Scored a goal in each of Binghamton’s games last week.
- Had the Bearcats’ lone score in a 1-1 tie with Lafayette Friday and the game winner in a 2-0 victory over Cornell Sunday.
- Leads the league and is tied for fifth nationally with 16 points on six goals and four assists this season.
- This is Saager’s third #AEWSOC Player of the Week award of the season and third of her career (8/20, 9/5).
- She’s the first #AEWSOC standout to earn three of a season’s first four Player of the Week honors since Hartford’s Jessica Reifer did so in 1993.
Rookie of the Week
Christina Corbi, UMBC – Fr., Forward/Midfielder, Medford, N.J.
- Had a goal and an assist in two games last week.
- Tallied her first career assist vs. Liberty Thursday and notched the game-winning goal in a 2-0 win over Longwood Sunday.
- This is Corbi’s first career #AEWSOC Rookie of the Week award.
Weekly Award Winners
Aug. 21 - Player of the Week: Kayla Saager, Binghamton; Rookie of the Week: Rachel Florenz, Stony Brook
Aug. 28 - Player of the Week: Brooke Murphy, New Hampshire; Rookie of the Week: Rachel Florenz, Stony Brook
Sept. 5 - Player of the Week: Kayla Saager, Binghamton; Rookie of the Week: Ella Bankert, Vermont
Sept. 11 - Player of the Week: Kayla Saager, Binghamton; Rookie of the Week: Christina Corbi, UMBC
Sixteen more America East women’s soccer games take place this week, including one five on AmericaEast.TV, the place to watch free live content on any device, including the network's Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire and Android TV OTT channels.
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