Women's Soccer Release #6
Sept. 30, 2008
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THIS WEEK IN THE HORIZON LEAGUE
Monday, Sept. 29
Detroit 2, Oakland 1
Wednesday, Oct. 1
Wright State at Valparaiso, 5 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 3
Cleveland State at Detroit, 2 p.m.
Xavier at Butler, 4:30 p.m.
Youngstown State at Valparaiso, 5 p.m.
No. 22 Milwaukee at Loyola, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 4
Northern Iowa at Green Bay, 1 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 5
Loyola at Cleveland State, 11 a.m.
No. 22 Milwaukee at Wright State, 1 p.m.
Youngstown State at IPFW, 1 p.m.
Butler at Detroit, 2 p.m.
NOTE: All times Eastern
Horizon League matches in Italics
NEWS AND NOTES FROM AROUNT THE HORIZON LEAGUE
STRONG LEAGUE START FOR THE BULLDOGS: Butler has started 2-0 in Horizon League play for the first time since beginning 4-0 to open the league slate in 2002. Additionally, the Bulldogs have shut out their first two opponents of the league season for the first time since the 1999 campaign when Butler began the conference slate with three straight blankings over Loyola (2-0), Detroit (1-0) and Green Bay (3-0).
TWYMAN, KRUGER LEADING THE WAY: Molly Kruger and Carrie Twyman are tied for the team lead with 13 points each, with Kruger's points coming from a team-high five goals and three assists and Twyman's coming from a team-best five assists and four goals.
CSU NEARING WINS RECORD: With at least nine matches to play this fall, the Vikings are just one win away from equaling the school record for wins in a season. CSU is 4-5-1 this year and quickly moving in on last year's total of five wins and one tie in 20 contests.
ZINKIEWICH EYES SAVE MARK: With a season-high 10 saves in the tie against Wright State, sophomore goalkeeper Kelly Zinkiewich moved past Ashley Kidwell into second place on the CSU career saves list with 176 career stops. Zinkiewich, who has 52 saves in 10 matches this year, has three more saves than Kidwell, who had 173 stops from 2004-06. Zinkiewich now needs 38 saves to break the record of 210 by Erin Withrow (2005-06).
TWO TITANS RECORD CAREER FIRSTS: Detroit freshman Alyssa Korson scored her first career goal - the game-winner - late in the second half last Friday versus Youngstown State.Fellow freshman Lauren Roffey was credited with an assist on the play, her first career helper.
MOROTE-ARIZA APPEARS IN NCAA RANKINGS: Loyola junior Cynthia Morote-Ariza registered three assists last weekend, pulling her into second in the nation with 0.92 assists per game. With two helpers on Friday against Drake, Morote-Ariza broke her own single-season assists record, reaching double figures in the category. She added her 11th assist on Sunday, setting up Laura Trevillian's opening goal before hitting the net herself in the 11th minute for her fifth marker of the year and 31st of her career.
LOYOLA NEEDED A SHUTOUT: After recording 19 shutouts during the last two seasons - including a school-record 11 last year - Loyola kept its first clean sheet of the 2008 season with its 3-0 victory against Drake.
VALPO FINALLY ALLOWS A PAIR: Valparaiso's 2-0 loss to Butler last Friday was the first time this season Valpo gave up two goals. Aided by the efforts of freshman goalkeeper Mele Cabral, the Crusaders have posted six shutouts and have yielded just five goals in 10 matches this season.
CRUSADER HOMESTAND: Valpo is home for five of its next six matches, completing a stretch in which the Crusaders play at home in seven of nine contests. Only three road matches remain (at Detroit, Green Bay and Milwaukee) for Valparaiso this season.
DRUSCH APPEARS IN NATIONAL RANKINGS: Green Bay freshman Maddie Drusch made nine saves in Green Bay's loss to Milwaukee, cementing her place among the national rankings in saves. Drusch is among the country's top statistical goalkeepers, ranking 20th in the nation in save percentage (.879) and saves per game (7.29). The saves total is tops in the Horizon League.
PANTHERS APPEAR IN THE RANKINGS: Milwaukee, which moved to 9-1-2 with a pair of wins last week, currently appears in several of women's soccer's national polls. Here is a breakdown of where Milwaukee is ranked this week:
NSCAA/adidas: No. 22 (No. 2 in Great Lakes Region)
Soccer Times: No. 25
Soccer Buzz: No. 28
HAGEN AMONG NATION'S BEST: UWM freshman Sarah Hagen, who has scored more than twice as many goals as any other Horizon League player, is one of six players nationally to already have at least 11 goals. She is tied for ninth in the country in goals per game (0.917) and 21st in the nation in points per game (2.00). She added to those stats last weekend, recording a goal and an assist in Milwaukee's wins over Northwestern and Green Bay.
SNYDER SAVES: Youngstown State freshman goalkeeper Mariah Snyder collected 17 saves last weekend and now leads the Horizon League with 71 saves this season. She also owns the league's second-highest mark in saves per match (7.10) while her .826 save percentage is good for fourth in the league.
