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| MICAELA LONG
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UNH WEEKLY ROUNDUP
October 19, 2009
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DURHAM,
N.H. –
Micaela Long of
the women’s ice 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 can be found
in this week's Wildcat Roundup.
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STUDENT-ATHLETE
SPOTLIGHT
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Micaela
Long, women’s ice hockey
Micaela, a senior forward
from South Boston, Massachusetts, recorded two goals, including a
game-winning tally, and three assists in two games vs. Niagara last
week to extend her point-scoring streak to six games. She matched
her career highs in both goals (two) and points (four) to propel
UNH to a 6-1 win on Oct. 18; she recorded a point on each of the
team’s first four goals in that game. Micaela also tallied an
assist in the first game of the series vs. the Purple Eagles.
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Chris
Banks, men’s soccer
Chris, a senior forward from
Westborough, Massachusetts, continued his hot streak with a goal
against the University of Hartford and an assist vs. the University
of Vermont to extend UNH’s winning streak to four games. He
scored the first goal of the game vs. Hartford to spark the
Wildcats to a four-goal lead and a 4-1 victory. Chris also helped
break a scoreless game vs. UVM by setting up the only goal of the
match in the 71st minute.
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WEEKLY AWARDS
Field hockey: Meg
Shea, America East Player of the Week
Men’s soccer:
Chris Banks, America East Player of the Week
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LAST WEEK’S
RESULTS
Wednesday, Oct. 14
Men’s soccer:
UNH 4, Hartford 1
Thursday, Oct. 15
Women’s
soccer: UNH 3, at Vermont 0
Friday,
Oct. 16
Men’s hockey:
Miami 6, UNH 3
Saturday, Oct. 17
Womens’ swim
& dive: UNH 213, Niagara 85 // UNH 191.5,
Siena 102.5 (at Siena)
Field hockey: at
Boston U. 2, UNH 1
Men’s soccer:
UNH 1, Vermont 0
Women’s ice
hockey: #3 UNH 3, Niagara 3 (ot)
Football: at #18
UMass 23, #4 UNH 17
Volleyball: UNH 3,
Hartford 0
Men’s hockey:
UNH 5, #1 Miami 5 (ot)
Sunday,
Oct. 18
Women’s swim
& dive: UNH 121, at Wagner 77
Women’s ice
hockey: #3 UNH 6,
Niagara 1
Women’s
soccer: Maine 2, UNH 0
Field hockey: UNH
3, #9 Boston College 2
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THIS WEEK’S
EVENTS
Wednesday, Oct. 21
Men’s soccer
at Albany, 2 pm
Thursday, Oct. 22
Women’s
soccer at UMBC, 3 pm
Friday,
Oct. 23
Men’s hockey
vs. Northeastern, 7 pm (NESN – tv)
Women’s ice
hockey at Clarkson, 7 pm
Saturday, Oct. 24
Field hockey vs.
Fairfield, 1 pm
Men’s soccer
vs. Stony Brook, 1 pm
Football at
Hofstra, 3 pm (Verizon Fios 1 – tv)
Women’s ice
hockey at St. Lawrence, 3 pm
Men’s hockey
vs. Maine, 7 pm (White Out the Whitt)
Sunday,
Oct. 25
Women’s
soccer vs. Binghamton, 1 pm
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MEN’S CROSS
COUNTRY
- The team did not
compete this past week. The team returns to action Oct. 31 at the
America East Championships (at UVM).
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WOMEN’S CROSS
COUNTRY
- The team did not
compete this past week. The team returns to action Oct. 31 at the
America East Championships (at UVM).
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FIELD HOCKEY (9-6, 1-2
America East)
- UNH split a pair
of games against Boston schools with a loss at Boston U. and win
against ninth-ranked Boston College. The ‘Cats have won four
of their last five games.
- Meg
Shea (Melrose, Mass.)
once again led the offense with a goal – the
game-winning tally vs. BC – and two assists to garner
the America East Player of the Week award for the second
consecutive week. She has recorded a point in all 15 games this
season and is currently ranked No. 5 in the nation in both goals
per game and points per game
- Hayley
Rausch (Severna Park,
Md.) has scored a goal in four consecutive games.
- With nine
victories, UNH has tied last year’s total, and the Wildcats
also had nine wins in the 2007 season.
- The win against
BC marked the team’s first victory against a
nationally-ranked team since the 2002 season.
- UNH’s
Senior Day is this Saturday, October 24, against Fairfield at 1
p.m.
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FOOTBALL (5-1, 2-1
CAA)
- Fourth-ranked
UNH fell 23-17 at 18th-ranked UMass last Saturday as the
Wildcats were turned away at the goal line in the closing seconds.
- Terrence
Klein (Westwood, N.J.)
had two interceptions and both set up UNH scoring drives.
- Scott
Sicko (Stillwater,
N.Y.) caught two TD passes and finished with 10 catches for 145
yards.
- Dino
Vasso (Crum Lynne, Pa.)
and Sean Ware (Bristol, Conn.) led the team with 14
tackles apiece.
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MEN’S ICE
HOCKEY (0-2-1, 0-0-0 Hockey East)
- UNH played host
to #1-ranked Miami for a two-game series. The teams skated to a 5-5
tie on Saturday, one night after the visitors recorded a 6-3 win.
- UNH scored five
goals in an eight minute span Saturday vs. Miami.
- Blake
Kessel (Verona, Wis.)
recorded a team-best five points last weekend. He tallied a pair of
assists in the series opener and then potted two goals and an
assist
- This
Saturday’s game (Oct. 24) against Maine is UNH’s annual
“White Out the Whitt” game.
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WOMEN’S ICE
HOCKEY (5-0-1, 1-0-0-0 Hockey
East)
- Third-ranked UNH
concluded its six-game homestand last weekend with a 3-3 tie and
6-1 victory against Niagara University.
- Micaela
Long (South Boston,
Mass.) recorded two goals, including a game-winning tally, and
three assists in the weekend series to extend her point-scoring
streak to six games.
- Courtney
Birchard (Mississauga,
Ontario) recorded her 50th career point with the second
of her two points on Oct. 17.
- The senior class
ranks 1-2-3 in both assists and points. It accounts for 19 of the
team’s 36 assists.
- Freshmen have
scored nine of the team’s 22 goals. Paige
Goloubef (Oakville,
Ont.) recorded her first collegiate point with a goal Oct.
17. Kristina Lavoie (Fonthill, Ont.) scored her first collegiate
goal with two tallies Oct. 18.
- UNH is 9-for-19
on the power play the last four games following Sunday’s
4-for-5 effort.
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MEN’S SOCCER
(7-5-1, 4-0-0 America East)
- UNH extended its
winning streak to four games last week with victories at home
against Hartford (4-1) and Vermont (1-0). The four goals vs. the
Hawks marked the Wildcats’ highest output since the 2006
season.
- Chris
Banks (Westborough,
Mass.) continued his recent hot streak with a goal vs. Hartford and
an assist against UVM. He was honored as America East Player of the
Week for the second straight week.
- Robin
Gerum (Kullavik,
Sweden) netted the game’s only goal vs. Vermont.
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WOMEN’S SOCCER
(3-12-1, 2-4-0 America East)
- UNH went 1-1-0
last week with a 3-0 road victory against Vermont and a 2-0 loss at
home to Maine.
- Marika
Posehn (Duncan, British
Columbia) tallied a career-high three points at UVM with her first
collegiate goal – it was the game-winning tally –
and an assist.
- Jenna
Duncan (Ivyland, Pa.)
recorded her first career point with an assist vs. the Catamounts
and Jordyn Krall (Duxbury, Mass.) scored her first career
goal in that game.
- Ally
Yost (Langhorne, Pa.)
made eight saves against Vermont for her third shutout of the
season and seventh of her career.
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SWIMMING & DIVING
(3-0)
- UNH opened the
2009-10 season Oct. 17 by defeating both Niagara University and
host school Siena College. The Wildcats broke six pool records on
the day, which marked the most in a single meet in the 11-year
history of the facility.
- Four Wildcats
set individual pool marks with Jessica Little
(Barrie, Ontario) in 200-yard
individual medley, Mallory Morrell (Rush, N.Y.) in the 50
freestyle, Amy Perrault (Kirkland Lake, Ontario) in the 100
backstroke and Shelli Reed (Hollister, Calif.) in the 100 free.
- UNH recorded
seven other individual first-place finishes on the day.
- The team
returned to action Oct. 18 and raced past Wagner by capturing first
place in all but three events.
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VOLLEYBALL (9-13, 1-4
America East)
- UNH swept
Hartford in straight sets to win its only match of the week.
- Kirsten
Bates (Calgary,
Alberta) recorded a team-high 14 kills to increase her career total
to 975. She also added six digs and had a .367 hitting
percentage.
- In just her
third career match, Jessy Dick (Lethbridge, Alberta) tallied four kills and
three service aces.
- Jessie
Schnepp (East
Longmeadow, Mass.), another freshman, was credited with a
career-high seven digs.
