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2007 Women's Soccer Team Notes (Through Games of Oct. 28)
| Armstrong Atlantic State (12-3-1, 6-1-1)
-- The Armstrong Atlantic State women's soccer squad wrapped up the
No. 2 seed in the upcoming Peach Belt Conference tournament with a
6-0 win over Lander on Saturday afternoon … The Pirates
hosted the Bearcats in a matchup of the No. 2 and No. 3 teams in
the league standings, but this one would be all AASU as two scores
in the first eight minutes propelled the home team to the win.
Lander would not record a shot in the match’s first 43
minutes and AASU played all three goalkeepers – including
giving a start to senior Tarra Kohler – in the shutout win
… Kristin Savoy started the scoring in the seventh minute,
then Lynsdi Stricklen tallied a goal in her seventh consecutive
match in the eighth minute. Kristin Burton halted her own
three-match scoreless streak with a goal in the 38th minute, then
Kelli Bahr closed out the first-half scoring with a goal in the
44th minute … After halftime, Savoy and Burton would each
add goals as the Pirates would outshoot the Bearcats, 24-13, for
the match … The shutout was the 10th for the Pirates in the
regular season, a new team record … The Pirates will host
North Georgia in a first-round PBC Tournament match on Tuesday,
October 30, at 2:00 p.m.
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| Clayton State (9-5-1, 4-4) -- The
Clayton State Lakers have been off for more than a week heading
into the start of tonight’s Peach Belt Conference
Tournament… The Lakers finished the regular season 9-5-1
overall and 4-4 in the Peach Belt, good for fifth place
overall… Clayton State opens Peach Belt Tournament play
tonight at 7 p.m. with a quarterfinal showdown at rival Georgia
Colllege… When these two teams played at Clayton State two
weeks ago, the Bobcats won a 5-4 thriller despite the fact that the
Lakers twice came back from two goals down to tie the game…
Clayton State senior forward Olaitan Yusuf leads the Peach Belt
Conference in goals scored with 20 goals and is second in points
scored with 42 points… Yusuf’s Clayton State and Peach
Belt career records now stand at 83 goals and 185 points…
Yusuf is ranked third in the nation in goals scored and fifth in
the nation in points scored… Clayton State head coach T.O.
Totty now stands at 94-76-12 in his 10th season at the Laker helm.
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| Columbus State (14-3-1, 8-0) -- Columbus
State clinched its third consecutive Peach Belt Conference
championship - its second out-right - with a 3-0 win over Georgia
College & State University Saturday night…Fifth-ranked
CSU will host the first round of the PBC Tournament on Tuesday as
the top seed, taking on #8 seed USC Aiken at 7 PM at the CSU Soccer
Complex…The Lady Cougars are serving as a tournament host
for the third time in the program's four years of
existence…Kassy Boivin scored two goals and Hannah Ospina
added one in the 3-0 win over GCSU…On last Wednesday, CSU
routed Georgia Southwestern 12-0 in Americus…Stephanie
Parrish scored a hat-trick and K.C. MacEachern added two goals in
the decisive win…Parrish leads the club with 10
goals…H. Ospina leads the team in points scored with 22 (9
goals, 4 assists).
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| Georgia College & State University (12-4,
5-3) -- The Bobcats shut-out North Georgia Wednesday 4-0
and dropped a 3-0 decision to No. 5 Columbus State Saturday
… The team’s 12 victories is a season-best for GCSU
… Ten different players have scored their first collegiate
goal this season, most recently being Erika Kolodin in the win over
North Georgia … Junior Hayley Ferrell has 16 goals this
season, snapping the school record of 11 by Meredith Moran in 2005,
Ferrell also owns the single-season points mark at 34, eight better
than the mark set by Moran in the same year … Ferrell owns
the career GCSU records for points (64) and goals (31) despite
being in just her junior year … Sophomore Jamie Nevin is
tied with seniors Britni Emerson and Emily Norris for the career
lead in assists with 11 career helps … GCSU hosts Clayton
State Tuesday, Oct. 30 at 7 p.m. in the first round of the Peach
Belt Tournament.
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| Georgia Southwestern (1-17, 0-8) -- The
2007 season came to a merciful end for the Lady Hurricanes on
Saturday with a 10-0 loss at North Georgia, their second straight
double-digit loss to end the season after falling 12-0 to Columbus
State earlier in the week. GSW will not participate in the PBC
Tournament as the school is not yet eligible to receive the
conference's automatic bid.
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| Lander (12-4, 6-2) -- The Lady Bearcats posted
their best regular season ever in the 10-year history of the
program this year. The Lady Bearcats won a school-record 12 games,
breaking the previous record of nine wins set in 1999. Last week
Lander defeated North Greenville, 5-0, for its seventh shutout of
the season. Against the Lady Crusaders, Aisha Reid and Christin
Moss each had one goal and one assist as Lander outshot North
Greenville, 27-3. In the Lady Bearcats’ regular-season finale
at Armstrong Atlantic, Lander suffered its worst defeat of the
season, 6-0.
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| UNC Pembroke (12-5-1, 3-4-1) -- With
shutout victories over both St. Andrews and USC Aiken on the week,
UNCP finished the 2007 season with 12 or more wins for the fourth
time in the last five years, while its 10 opponent shutouts was the
second-most for the squad in school history. The Braves closed out
the home portion of the 2007 slate with an impressive 6-1-1 mark at
Varsity Grounds – statistically, the third-best home record
in school history (6-1-0 in 2003; 8-0-1 in 2005). Lefke Boysen
turned in an assist and UNCP’s second hat trick of the season
in a 7-0 no doubter over region rival St. Andrews and followed it
up with two more goals in a 3-0 victory over USC Aiken. The No.
6-seeded Braves will play a first round PBC Tournament road game
for the second-straight season as they travel to Lander for the
postseason gala. UNCP is 1-6-0 all-time in the Peach Belt
Tournament, with their lone victory coming against the Bearcats in
2005.
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| North Georgia (7-8-1, 1-6-1) -- North
Georgia fell on the road to Georgia College 4-0, but picked up its
first conference win with a 10-0 victory over Georgia Southwestern
at home Saturday afternoon. The Lady Saints will take on Armstrong
in the first round of the Peach Belt Conference Tournament for
their first ever NCAA post-season match. The Lady Saints recorded a
season high 10 goals against GSW on senior day, scoring seven goals
in the first half and finding the back of the net three more times
in the second half.
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| USC Aiken (5-12-1, 1-6-1) -- USC
Aiken split two games this past week...On Tuesday the Lady Pacers
snapped a four-game losing skid with a 1-0 victory at
Coker…Annie Whitley provided the goal, her second of the
season, in the 51st minute to break a scoreless tie and also end
USCA’s 430-minute scoreless streak…Freshman goalkeeper
Nicole Westphal needed to make just two saves in recording her
third career shutout…The Lady Pacers played at UNC Pembroke
on Saturday and were dealt a 3-0 setback by the Braves…Lefke
Boysen scored twice for the hosts, and USCA was shut out for the
11th time this season…With the loss the Lady Pacers fell
into a tie for seventh in the PBC with North Georgia, due to losing
the tiebreaker are relegated to the eighth seed for the Peach Belt
Conference Tournament…USCA plays at top-seeded Columbus
State Tuesday at 7:00 PM.
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