UNH WEEKLY ROUNDUP
October 26, 2009
DURHAM,
N.H. –
Leah Boody of
the field hockey team and Blake Kessel
of the men’s ice hockey 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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| LEAH BOODY
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| BLAKE KESSEL
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STUDENT-ATHLETE
SPOTLIGHT
Leah Boody,
field hockey
Leah, a senior forward from
Amesbury, Massachusetts, came off the bench to match her career
high of two goals as part of a personal-best five points that
propelled the UNH field hockey team to a 6-0 victory against
Fairfield University on Senior Day. She gave the Wildcats a 4-0
lead in the 49th minute and closed the scoring in the
69th minute; just 90 seconds earlier, Leah’s
assist set up UNH’s fifth goal of the game.
Blake
Kessel, men’s ice hockey
Blake, a sophomore defenseman
from Verona, Wisconsin, recorded a team-high five points last week
with a goal and four assists. He tallied a career-high three
assists to propel UNH to a 4-2 victory vs. Northeastern on Oct. 23,
then had a goal and an assist in UNH’s 5-2 win vs. Maine the
following night. He has 10 points in just four games to lead the
nation in defenseman scoring (2.50 ppg) and rank second in overall
scoring.
WEEKLY AWARDS
Football: Tom
Manning, CAA Special Team Player of the Week
Men’s ice
hockey: Dalton Speelman, Hockey East Rookie of the Week
Women’s ice
hockey: Brittany Skudder, Hockey East Rookie of the Week
LAST WEEK’S
RESULTS
Wednesday, Oct. 21
Men’s soccer:
UNH 1, at Albany 0
Thursday, Oct. 22
Women’s
soccer: UNH 3, at UMBC 2
Friday,
Oct. 23
Men’s hockey:
UNH 4, Northeastern 2
Women’s ice
hockey: at Clarkson 6, UNH 2
Saturday, Oct. 24
Field hockey: at
UNH 6, Fairfield 0
Football: UNH 18,
at Hofstra 10
Women’s ice
hockey: UNH 3, at St. Lawrence 3 (OT)
Men’s ice
hockey: at UNH 5, Maine 2
Men’s soccer:
at UNH 1, Stony Brook 1 (2 OT)
Sunday,
Oct. 25
Women’s
soccer: Binghamton 1, at UNH 0
THIS WEEK’S
EVENTS
Wednesday, Oct. 28
Men’s soccer
vs. Binghamton, 2:30 pm
Thursday, Oct. 29
Women’s
soccer at Maine, 2 pm (America East quarterfinal)
Friday,
Oct. 30
Volleyball at
Albany, 7 pm
Men’s ice
hockey at Wisconsin, 8 pm (Eastern)
Saturday, Oct. 31
Men’s and
women’s cross country at America East Championships (at
Vermont), 10 am
Football vs.
Northeastern, 12 pm
Field hockey at
Albany, 1 pm
Men’s and
women’s basketball Tip-off Celebration, 3 pm
Women’s ice
hockey vs. Connecticut, 5 pm
Men’s ice
hockey at Wisconsin, 8 pm (Eastern)
Sunday,
Nov. 1
Volleyball at
Binghamton, 1 pm
Women’s ice
hockey vs. Maine, 3 pm (White Out the Whit)
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).
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).
FIELD HOCKEY (10-6, 2-2
America East)
- UNH clinched a
berth in the America East Championship tournament with its 6-0 win
against Fairfield on Senior Day. It will be the Wildcats’
third consecutive league postseason appearance.
- Prior to this
season, UNH last recorded double-digits wins in 2003.
-
Katherine Nagengast (Westborough, Mass.) recorded her fourth
shutout of the season with a three-save effort.
- Senior forwards
Meg Shea (Melrose, Mass.) and Leah
Boody (Amesbury, Mass.)
both recorded two goals and an assist to propel the UNH attack.
Boody matched her career high of two goals in establishing a
personal-best five points.
- Shea, who has
recorded a point in all 16 games, continued her ascension in the
UNH record book and is now #2 on the single-season points list (49)
as well as tied for second in single-season goals (21);
furthermore, Shea is fourth in career points (93) and tied for
fourth in career goals (40).
- Boody, Shea,
Cally Cooke (Newburyport, Mass.) and
Kiera Williams (Dover, N.H.) were the four seniors honored
prior to the Fairfield game.
FOOTBALL (6-1, 3-1
CAA)
- Tom
Manning (Rome, N.Y.)
kicked a school-record 54-yard field goal and also made attempts of
44 and 30 yards in UNH’s 18-10 victory at Hofstra. The
Wildcats’ defense made a goal-line stand in the closing
minute of regulation to secure the victory.
- Kyle
Maroney (Brockport,
N.Y.) led the defensive effort with seven tackles – four for
a loss, including two sacks – and two forced fumbles.
MEN’S ICE
HOCKEY (2-2-1, 2-0-0 Hockey East)
- UNH opened its
Hockey East slate last weekend with home wins against Northeastern
(4-2) and Maine (5-2). The Wildcats are now 10-1-1 in the last 12
league openers.
- Dalton
Speelman (San Jose,
Calif.) was honored as Rookie of the Week by Hockey East. He scored
his first two collegiate goals to give UNH a 2-0 lead vs.
Northeastern and the ‘Cats never relinquished that
advantage.
- Blake
Kessel (Verona, Wis.),
who tallied a career-high three assists vs. Northeastern, has 10
points in four games this season. He ranks second in the nation and
first among defensemen in points per game (2.50).
- UNH has won six
of the last seven – and 10 of 13 – against
Maine.
- This
weekend’s matchup at Wisconsin will be a homecoming for
Kessel, Mike Sislo (Superior, Wis.) and Scott
Pavelski (Plover,
Wis.).
WOMEN’S ICE
HOCKEY (5-1-2, 1-0-0-0 Hockey
East)
- Third-ranked UNH
went on the road for the first time in the 2010 season, and the
Wildcats returned home with a loss (6-2 to Clarkson) and tie (3-3
vs. St. Lawrence).
- Senior forward
and captain Kelly Paton (Woodstock, Ont.) has recorded a point in
all eight games; dating back to last season, her point-scoring
streak is 17 games.
- Freshman forward
Brittany Skudder (Plainview, N.Y.) was named Rookie of the
Week by Hockey East. She tallied a pair of power-play goals in
UNH’s 3-3 tie at St. Lawrence.
- UNH returns to
Hockey East action with home games against UConn and Maine this
weekend; UNH is unbeaten in league home games (63-0-9) since the
inception of Hockey East in the 2003 season.
MEN’S SOCCER
(8-5-2, 5-0-1 America East)
- UNH clinched at
least a share of the America East regular-season title
– and the No. 1 seed in the league tournament
– with last week’s 1-0 win at Albany and 1-1 tie
vs. Stony Brook.
- It is
UNH’s second league title. The Wildcats, who are unbeaten in
six games (5-0-1), shared the 1994 crown.
- Colin
O’Donnell (Springfield, Mass.) made seven saves vs.
Albany to record his fifth shutout of the season. Overall, he had a
0.50 GAA and .929 save percentage for the week.
- Chris
Banks (Westborough,
Mass.) scored the game’s only goal against Albany to mark his
fourth goal in a five-game span.
WOMEN’S SOCCER
(4-13-1, 3-5-0 America East)
- UNH went 1-1-0
last week to clinch a berth in the America East Championship
tournament for the ninth consecutive year – the longest
active streak in the conference.
- UNH is the sixth
seed and begins postseason play Oct. 29 at Maine.
- Morgan
Keefe (South
Burlington, Vt.) scored with 7:29 remaining in regulation to lift
the Wildcats to a 3-2 road win vs. UMBC. Meg
Wiley (Norwell, Mass.)
tallied her first career point with an assist on that goal.
- UNH’s six
seniors – Keefe, Wiley, Jenna Duncan (Ivyland, Pa.), Alex
Hastings (Fort Collins,
Colo.), Shaunna Kaplan (Framingham, Mass.) and Ally
Yost (Langhorne, Pa.)
– were honored on Senior Day prior to their final home game
vs. Binghamton.
SWIMMING & DIVING
(3-0)
- UNH did not have
a meet last week. The Wildcats return to action Nov. 7 (2 p.m.) at
home against Central Connecticut State.
VOLLEYBALL (9-13, 1-4
America East)
- UNH was idle
last week. The Wildcats return to action on the road this weekend
against Albany and Binghamton.
- Kirsten
Bates (Calgary,
Alberta) enters the weekend with 975 career kills and is on the
verge of becoming the sixth UNH Wildcat to reach the 1,000-kill
milestone.
