UNH WEEKLY ROUNDUP
October 12, 2009
DURHAM,
N.H. –
Meg Shea of the
field hockey team and Chris Banks of the men’s soccer team are
featured in this week's Service Credit Union Student-Athlete
Spotlight. This information and more is in this week's Wildcat
Roundup.
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| MEG SHEA
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| CHRIS BANKS
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STUDENT-ATHLETE
SPOTLIGHT
Meg Shea,
field hockey
Meg, a senior
forward, recorded five goals – including two game-winning
tallies – and one assist for a total of 11 points to lead UNH
to victories against Dartmouth College (4-0), University of Vermont
(3-1) and University of Michigan (3-2, double overtime) last week.
She capped the
week with the game-winning goal against Michigan on Oct. 11, and
that tally extended her point-scoring streak to 13 games; it also
marked her fifth consecutive game with a goal.
One day
earlier, Meg recorded a goal and assist in the second half to spark
UNH to a 3-1 road win vs. UVM; her assist set up the game-winning
goal in the 42nd minute and her goal extended the lead
to 3-1 in the 54th minute.
Meg opened the
week by matching her personal bests in both goals (three) and
points (six) in a 4-0 win at Dartmouth on Oct. 7. In that game, she
opened the scoring with goals in the 11th and 12 minutes
to quickly give UNH a 2-0 lead and then closed the scoring in the
48th minute.
Chris
Banks, men’s soccer
Chris, a senior
forward, punched in his third game-winning goal of the season off a
pass from Sean Coleman in the 73rd minute of play to propel the
men's soccer team to a 2-1 victory against 15th-ranked
Boston University to open up conference play last Wednesday night
at Nickerson Field.
Later in the
week, Chris was at it again as he netted the first of a pair of
late goals that led the team to its fourth victory in the last five
games, defeating the No. 25 ranked UMBC Retrievers, 2-0, last
Saturday afternoon at UMBC Soccer Stadium.
Chris, who
compiled a team best three shots in the game, has led the Wildcats
in shots every game this season and remains the team's leading goal
scorer with four.
WEEKLY AWARDS
Field hockey: Meg
Shea, America East Player of the Week
Football: Terrence
Klein, CAA Defensive Player of the Week
Football: Tom
Manning, CAA Special Teams Player of the Week
Men’s soccer:
Chris Banks, America East Player of the Week
LAST WEEK’S
RESULTS
Wednesday, Oct. 7
Field hockey: UNH
4, at Dartmouth 0
Men’s soccer:
UNH 2, at #17 Boston U. 1
Thursday, Oct. 8
Women’s
soccer: Albany 1, at UNH 0
Friday,
Oct. 9-- HOMECOMING WEEKEND
Women’s ice
hockey: at #3 UNH 4, Colgate 0
Volleyball: at UMBC
3, UNH 2
Saturday, Oct. 10-- HOMECOMING
WEEKEND
Men’s cross
country: 4th place at New England Championships (Boston)
Women’s cross
country: 5th place at New England Championships (Boston)
Football: at #5 UNH
28, #2 Villanova 24
Field hockey: UNH
3, at Vermont 1
Men’s soccer:
UNH 2, at #25 UMBC 0
Women’s ice
hockey: #3 UNH 2, Syracuse 1
Men’s ice
hockey: at Rensselaer 3, UNH 1
Sunday,
Oct. 11
Field hockey: UNH
3, Michigan 2 (2 ot; at Harvard)
Volleyball: at
Stony Brook 3, UNH 2
Women’s
soccer: at Dartmouth 2, UNH 1
THIS WEEK’S
EVENTS
Wednesday, Oct. 14
Men’s soccer
vs. Hartford, 3 pm
Thursday, Oct. 15
Women’s
soccer at Vermont, 3 pm
Friday,
Oct. 16
Men’s hockey
vs. Miami, 7 pm
Saturday, Oct. 17
Womens’ swim
& dive at Siena, 11 am
Field hockey at
Boston U., 1 pm
Men’s soccer
vs. Vermont, 2 pm
Women’s ice
hockey vs. Niagara, 2 pm
Football at UMass,
3:30 pm (Comcast SportsNet New England)
Volleyball vs.
Hartford, 4 pm
Men’s hockey
vs. Miami, 7 pm
Sunday,
Oct. 18
Women’s swim
& dive at Wagner, 11 am
Women’s ice
hockey vs. Niagara, 2 pm
Women’s
soccer vs. Maine, 2 pm
Field hockey vs.
Boston College, 3 pm
MEN’S CROSS
COUNTRY
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The men’s cross country team placed fourth (47 teams
competed) at the New England Championship that was held at
Boston’s Franklin Park.
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Josh Kearns (Ridgefield, Conn.) was the top ‘Cat in
11th place overall and Wesley
Dinnan (Juneau, Alaska)
also placed in the top 20 (18th).
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The team returns to action Oct. 31 at the America East
Championships (at UVM).
WOMEN’S CROSS
COUNTRY
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The women’s cross country team placed fifth (49 teams
competed) at the New England Championship that was held at
Boston’s Franklin Park.
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Elizabeth Campbell (Colonia, N.J.), Allison
Letourneau (Kingston,
Nova Scotia) and Courney Hamer (Andover, Mass.) finished within a six-second
span and placed 24th, 28th and
34th, respectively.
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The team returns to action Oct. 31 at the America East
Championships (at UVM).
FIELD HOCKEY (8-5, 1-1
America East)
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UNH won all three games away from home last week with road wins
against Dartmouth and Vermont as well as a neutral-site win vs.
Michigan.
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Meg Shea (Melrose, Mass.) extended her point-scoring
streak with a point in all three games last week. She matched her
career highs in both goals (three) and points (six) at Dartmouth,
tallied a goal and an assist at UVM and scored the game-winning
goal in overtime vs. Michigan.
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Katherine Nagengast (Westborough, Mass.) stopped 15 of 18 shots
in 232:55 of action last week for a 0.90 goals-against-average and
.833 save percentage.
FOOTBALL (5-0, 2-0
CAA)
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Fifth-ranked UNH defeated second-ranked Villanova, 28-24, in front
of a crowd of 14,811 on Homecoming Weekend. UNH scored on all five
trips to the Red Zone.
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UNH’s 5-0 start is its best since the 2005 season.
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Terrence Klein (Westwood, N.J.) make five tackles, including
a sack, and also recorded a fourth-quarter interception that led to
a UNH field goal (28-24 lead).
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Tom Manning (Rome, N.Y.) made 3 of 3 field goal attempts,
including kicks of 35 and 22 yards in the fourth quarter that
transformed a 24-22 deficit into a 28-24 lead.
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Chad Kackert (Simi Valley, Calif.) entered UNH’s
top-10 list of career rushers following his 67-yard effort vs.
Villanova. He now has 1,810 yards.
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Scott Sicko (Stillwater, N.Y.) led UNH in all-purpose
yardage with 134 receiving yards.
MEN’S ICE
HOCKEY (0-1-0, 0-0-0 Hockey East)
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UNH dropped its season opener at Rensselaer, 3-1.
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Bobby Butler (Marlboro, Mass.) scored the team’s
first goal of the 2010 season; he also scored the team’s last
goal of the 2009 season.
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UNH has won back-to-back home openers with wins against Wisconsin
last year and Colorado College in the previous year.
WOMEN’S ICE
HOCKEY (4-0-0, 1-0-0-0 Hockey
East)
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Third-ranked UNH continued its homestand with wins against Colgate
(4-0) and Syracuse (2-1).
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UNH shut out the opposition in the second and third games of the
season; the Wildcats did not record back-to-back shutouts last
year. UNH’s shutout streak ended at 183:30 when Syracuse
scored its second-period goal.
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Ten Wildcats recorded a point vs. Colgate, and Micaela
Long (South Boston,
Mass.; two assists) was the only multiple-point scorer.
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The ‘Cats are unbeaten in their last 29 regular season home
games (25-0-4), and that includes 11-0-1 vs. non-league teams.
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UNH has won 17 consecutive regular-season games
MEN’S SOCCER
(5-5-1, 0-0-0 America East)
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UNH recorded road victories against 17th-ranked Boston
University (2-10 and 25th-ranked UMBC (2-0) last week.
It marked UMBC’s first home loss of the season as well as the
first time the Retrievers were shut out.
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Chris Banks (Westborough, Mass.) scored the game-winning
goal in both games, as he scored in the 73rd minute at
BU to break a 1-1 tie and netted the first goal vs. UMBC.
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UNH has won four of its last five games.
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Colin O’Donnell (Springfield, Mass.) has a 0.82 GAA with
three shutouts.
WOMEN’S SOCCER
(2-11-1, 1-3-0 America East)
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UNH lost a pair of one-goal games last week – 1-0 to
Albany and 2-1 at Dartmouth. The Wildcats have eight one-goal
losses this season.
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Sophomore Brooke Duchaney (Hampton Falls, N.H.) scored her first goal
as a UNH Wildcat in the 82nd minute vs.
Dartmouth.
VOLLEYBALL (8-13, 0-4
America East)
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UNH dropped a pair of five-set road matches last week against
league foes UMBC and Stony Brook.
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Lindsay Fogarty (Pleasanton, Calif.) had a team-high 18 kills
vs. UMBC and also led the team in kills against Stony Brook with
20.
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Kirsten Bates (Calgary, Alberta) recorded 28 kills last
weekend to increase her career total to 961.
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Taylor Dressing (Gillette, N.J.) recorded 14 kills with a .389
hitting percentage – and also tallied four blocks –
against Stony Brook.
