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Nov. 6, 2008
A total of nine IUP field hockey players have been selected to the All-PSAC West team for the 2008 season, including senior Sylvia Guerrieri who is on the squad for the fourth time in her career. Brittany Owens and Lydia Dolly are making their second all-conference appearance. First team performers from IUP are Guerrieri, juniors Owens and Dolly and freshmen Lieke de Ridder and Willemijn Jongbloed. On the second team are seniors Kellen Yoder and Katie Schwartz and sophomores Jess Frantz and Irma Bakker. Guerrieri (Boyertown/Brandywine Heights) is on the first team for the third time. She is second on the team in goals with nine and points with 25 while ranking third with seven assists entering the NCAA tournament which gets under way Saturday when IUP hosts Shippensburg at 7 p.m. Guerrieri has started all 80 games in her career and has helped lead the Crimson Hawks to a record of 61-19 over that span, including last year's PSAC championship, the first ever for IUP in field hockey. She has scored 17 goals and added 25 assists and tied for the team lead in assists with 10 in 2006. Owens (Reading/Schuylkill Valley) is one of the top offensive players in Division II field hockey this season. She leads IUP in goals with 15, assists with 12 and points with 42. Owens is third in the PSAC in points per game (2.47) and assists per game (0.71) and fifth in goals per game (0.88). Nationally, she is fourth in points and assists per game and eighth in goals per game. Owens set a school record with 12 points in a game when she had four goals and four assists in a 13-0 win over Bellarmine on October 12. Owens was the MVP of the PSAC tournament last season, scoring the game-winning goal with 19.5 seconds remaining in a 1-0 victory over Shippensburg in the semifinals and giving IUP the conference title with an overtime goal in a 4-3 win over Bloomsburg in the championship game. In 58 career games, all starts, Owens has totals of 29 goals and 34 points. Dolly (Lancaster/Hempfield) leads the nation this season with a goals against average of 0.71 and is first in the PSAC and second in the country with a save percentage of .797. She has stopped 47 shots while allowing only 12 goals on the season and has 10 shutouts. No other IUP player has seen time in goal over the past two years. In her three seasons at IUP, Dolly has started 58 of 59 games and has a record of 46-12. She has made 268 saves while allowing only 61 goals for a career goals against average of 1.03 and a save percentage of .815. Jongbloed and de Ridder joined the Crimson Hawks this season from the Netherlands. Jongbloed started all 17 games and is one of the anchors of the IUP defense while de Ridder started the final 12 games of the season and totaled two goals and three assists from her midfield position. Yoder (Shoemakersville/Hamburg) has long been recognized as one of the top defensive players in the conference but has not been honored by the conference coaches until this year. Her play around the IUP goal is largely responsible for the Crimson Hawks allowing only 12 goals on the year and a total of just 76 opponent shots in 17 games, an average of fewer than five per game. Yoder has started all 80 games in her career at IUP and contributed a pair of assists during the 2007 season. In her first season as a starter at IUP, Schwartz (Wexford/North Allegheny) has two goals and three assists this season and tallied a game-winning goal at Bellarmine on September 13. She played in 13 games off the bench a year ago and had a goal and an assist. Frantz (Kunkletown/Pleasant Valley) has started all 17 games this season and is third on the team in goals with eight and points with 24 while ranking second with eight assists. She is eighth in the PSAC and 15th nationally in assists per game with 0.47. Frantz had three goals and two assists for eight points in the October 12 win over Bellarmine. In her two-year career, Frantz has started all 38 games and has 18 goals and 10 assists. As a freshman in 2007, she was second on the team with 10 goals and fourth with 22 points. Bakker, who joined Jongbloed and de Ridder from the Netherlands this season, played in all 17 games with 16 starts and has seven goals and 17 points. She leads the Crimson Hawks with four game-winning goals, including one in a 2-1 victory over Kutztown in the semifinals of the PSAC tournament last Friday. |
