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SCAC Players-of-the-Week
(10/2/06)
Men's Cross Country
JAMESON OTTO OF SOUTHWESTERN
UNIVERSITY, a senior from Carrollton, Texas,
has been selected the SCAC Men's Cross Country Runner-of-the-Week
for meets run Friday, September 29 and Saturday, September 30.
Otto
won his first-ever collegiate race at the Texas State Division III
Cross Country Championships in Abilene, Texas, on Saturday. Otto
took the individual title with a time of 27:54 in a field of 57. He
led the Pirates to a third place finish of seven teams in the
event.
Women's
Cross Country
EILEEN
SCHILLING OF CENTRE COLLEGE,
a senior from Louisville, Ky., has been selected the SCAC Women's
Cross Country Runner-of-the-Week for meets run Friday, September 29
and Saturday, September 30.
Schilling
finished in fifth place
overall out of 234 runners of all divisions at the Greater
Louisville Classic this past weekend. Schilling toured the
muddy/windy 5K course in 19:28, and led the Centre women to a fifth
place finish out of 31 teams.
Field Hockey - Offensive
KATIE SLIMP OF RHODES COLLEGE, a
junior forward from Houston, Texas, has been selected the SCAC Field
Hockey Offensive Player-of-the-Week for matches played from Monday,
September 25 through Sunday, October 1.
Slimp
scored four goals in two wins
for the Lynx this past weekend. During Friday’s 4-3 win over
Sewanee, Slimp scored three of the Lynx' four goals,
including the game winner. The three-goal game was her first career
hat trick. She added the team's final goal in Saturday's 4-1 victory
over Transylvania. Slimp more than doubled her scoring for
the season this weekend - moving from two to six goals scored -
for 12 points (good for second on the team in total points).
Field Hockey - Defensive
KATE DOBBINS
OF DEPAUW UNIVERSITY, a sophomore defender from Louisville,
Ky., has been selected the SCAC Field Hockey Defensive
Player-of-the-Week for matches played from Monday, September 25
through Sunday, October 1.
Dobbins
did an excellent
job of stopping Centre's many attacks, stopping the ball with
interceptions and strong tackles, in the Tigers' 4-2 SCAC victory
over the Colonels.
Football - Offensive
JUAN JOSEPH OF MILLSAPS
COLLEGE,
a 6-2, 178-pound sophomore quarterback from Edgard, La., has been selected the
SCAC Football Offensive Player-of-the-Week for games played
Saturday, September 30.
Joseph passed for a school-record tying five touchdown passes
as the Majors posted a 52-10 thumping on Lincoln (Mo.) University in
front of a hungry Millsaps crowd on "Purple Pride Day" Saturday at
Harper Davis Field. Joseph, who completed 18 of 35 passes for
275 yards, is the first Millsaps quarterback to throw for five TDs
in a single game since Beau Pollard led the Majors to a 52-16 win
over Greenville (Ill.) College in 1997. He is also the first SCAC
quarterback to toss five TD passes in a game since Daniel Swanstrom
of Rhodes accomplished the feat at Rose-Hulman on Oct. 9, 2004, and
it is just the ninth time this decade a SCAC quarterback has pulled
off the feat. For the season, Joseph has completed 50 of 91
passes for league-leading totals of 756 yards and nine touchdowns.
He also leads the league in total offense at 256.0 yards per game
and is third in passing efficiency with a rating of 142.0.
Football - Defensive
MATT JOHNSON OF CENTRE COLLEGE,
a 6-3, 208-pound junior linebacker from Ashland, Ky., has been selected the SCAC
Football Defensive Player-of-the-Week for games played Saturday,
September 30.
Johnson
posted a season-high 15 tackles, including five solo and 10 assists,
in a 14-0 shutout of Sewanee. He also added a sack, 1.5 tackles for
loss, broke up a pass and returned an interception 29 yards to the
Tigers one-yard line. Johnson led the Colonels' defense to
their first shutout since the 2004 season. Centre held Sewanee to
just 196 yards of total offense, the second time this season the
Colonels have held an opponent under 200 offensive yards for a game.
For the season, Johnson leads the SCAC in tackles (54) and is
averaging 10.8 stops per game. He led the league in tackles last
season as a sophomore with 112 total stops.
Men's Soccer - Offensive
NICK
JUDAH OF CENTRE COLLEGE, a junior
striker from Louisville, Ky., and NICK NOEL OF DEPAUW
UNIVERSITY,
a senior forward from Zionsville, Ind., have been selected the SCAC Men's Soccer
Co-Offensive Players-of-the-Week for matches played from Monday,
September 25
through Sunday, October 1.
Judah
notched five of Centre's 10 goals in
three wins this past week for the Colonels. On Wednesday against
Mount St. Joseph, Judah had Centre's first and third goals in
a 4-0 win. Then on Sunday against Millsaps, Judah scored
Centre's final three goals - in less than a six minute span - as the
Colonels cruised to a 5-0 victory. It was the first hat-trick of the
junior striker's collegiate career and the first by a Centre men's
soccer player since the 2002 season. For the season, Judah
has nine goals on the season (tied for the league lead), 18 points
(third in the SCAC) and is averaging a league-leading 2.57 points
per game.
Noel
had three goals and two assists for
eight points in two SCAC wins for DePauw last weekend. Noel
had one goal in Friday's 3-0 win against Millsaps and followed that
with two goals, including the eventual game-winner, and two assists
in Sunday's 3-2 victory over Rhodes.
For the season, Noel is tied for the SCAC lead in points scored with 19
(7 goals, 5 assists) and is second in points per game at 2.38.
Men's Soccer
- Defensive
CHRIS
CREGER OF CENTRE COLLEGE, a junior
goalkeeper from Charleston, S.C., has been selected the SCAC Men's
Soccer Defensive Player-of-the-Week for matches played from Monday,
September 25 through Sunday, October 1.
Creger
registered his fourth, fifth and sixth shutouts of the season this
past week as the Colonels went 3-0-0, including a SCAC road sweep.
He kept the clean sheet in Centre's 4-0 win over visiting Mount St.
Joseph on Wednesday and then kept Rhodes scoreless in Memphis on
Friday afternoon in Centre's 1-0 victory. And on Sunday, Creger
would register his league leading sixth shut-out of the season in
Centre's 5-0 win at Millsaps. Creger currently leads the
conference in shut-outs as well as goals against average at 0.38 -
allowing just three goals in 711 minutes in goal.
Women's
Soccer - Offensive
CASEY GRIER OF SOUTHWESTERN
UNIVERSITY,
a sophomore forward from Spring, Texas, has been selected the SCAC
Women's Soccer Offensive Player-of-the-Week for matches played from Monday,
September 25 through Sunday, October 1.
Grier
scored three goals
and was credited with two assists during the week for a total of eight points as
the Pirates went 2-1 to improve to 4-5-2 on the season.
On Tuesday, Grier had a hand in every Southwestern goal as she scored a
pair of goals and assisted on the other in the 5-3 road loss at the University
of Texas-Dallas.
Three days later, Grier scored the first goal of the game in the Pirates'
4-2 win against the University of Dallas, and on Sunday, she had an assist in
the 8-0 win over Schreiner (Tex.) University.
For the season, Grier has six goals (tied for second in the SCAC) and 14
points (tied for third in the SCAC).
Women's Soccer -
Defensive
JESSICA
KOENIG OF TRINITY UNIVERSITY,
a junior defender from Galveston, Texas, has been selected the SCAC Women's
Soccer Defensive Player-of-the-Week for matches played from Monday,
September 25
through Monday, October 1.
Koenig led the Tiger defense to
two shutout victories this weekend, pushing the team's win streak to eight
games. Koenig and the rest of the Tiger back line held Texas Lutheran and Dallas
to just one shot each in the two games, giving the team its third consecutive
shutout. For the season, the Tigers have allowed just five goals on 59 shots,
recording five team shutouts. Koenig and the Trinity defense have not allowed a
goal in the past 288:56 of play.
Volleyball
JESSIE
DUREELL OF TRINITY UNIVERSITY,
a senior middle blocker from Conroe, Texas, has been selected the
SCAC Volleyball Player-of-the-Week for matches played from Monday,
September 25 through Sunday, October 1.
Dureell
led the Tigers to a 4-0 record this past weekend, including a 3-1
win over ninth-ranked Central (Iowa) College on Friday night at the
Trinity Fall Classic Tournament. Dureell and the Tigers have
won eight consecutive matches, including three wins over opponents
ranked in the top 15. She finished the weekend with 28 kills and a
.490 hitting percentage, committing just four errors in 49 attempts.
Against No. 9 Central, Dureell recorded 13 kills in 21
attempts for a .476 hitting percentage (three errors). For the
season, she is third on the team with 115 kills, and second on the
team with a .335 hitting percentage. Dureell, who recorded
seven blocks this weekend, is second on the team with 54 blocks this
year.
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