GNAC Field Hockey Report: Week 9
Lasell's Lily Stark scored the double-overtime game-winning goal in Saturday's 2-1 GNAC Tournament road victory over Saint Joseph's of Maine.
( FOR THE WEEK OF OCT. 24 - 30 )
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PLAYER OF THE WEEK Lily Stark, Lasell (Junior, F - Saco, Maine) - Stark scored the double-overtime game-winning goal in Saturday's 2-1 GNAC Tournament road victory over Saint Joseph's of Maine. Lasell also defeated SJC by a 2-1 final in Wednesday's regular-season finale, in which Stark notched the-game-winning assist against the Monks to break the Lasers program record for points (54) in a season. |
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GOALKEEPER OF THE WEEK Courtney Tello, Lasell (Sophomore, GK - Nashua, N.H.) - In back-to-back 2-1 victories over GNAC rival Saint Joseph's (Maine), including a GNAC Tournament opening-round win, Tello stopped 16 of 18 shots for an .889 save percentage. She stopped 12 of 13 shots in the playoff upset on the road, even depsite 22 penalty corners by the Monks. |
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ROOKIE OF THE WEEK Taylor Gaudette, Colby-Sawyer (Fr, F - North Conway, N.H.) - Gaudette dished out a program-record five assists against Regis on Wednesday, as the Chargers defeated the Pride by a 6-1 final in their regular-season finale. |
HONOR ROLL
Serena Montague, Albertus Magnus (Jr., GK - Englishtown, N.J.) - Montague recorded a gem in the Falcons' 2022 finale on Tuesday, as she made 18 saves and allowed one goal in a heart-breaking 1-0 Albertus loss to USJ. After ceding a goal in the seventh minute, the junior keeper kept the visiting Blue Jays scoreless for the final 53 minutes to keep AMC on the door step of tying the game.
Emma Webster, Colby-Sawyer (So, F - Campton, N.H.) - Webster tallied three goals for the Chargers including a game-winner against Regis and a first career playoff goal against Rivier.
Margaret Johnson, Johnson & Wales (RI) (Sr., M/F - Bear, Del.) - Johnson finished last week with four goals as the Wildcats went 3-0 overall, including a hat trick performance in the GNAC Tournament Quarterfinals against USJ. She also scored the game-winner in a 3-0 GNAC regular-season fianle win over Anna Maria. Johnson is currently second on the Wildcats with 15 goals and 41 points.
Anna Tedeschi, Simmons (Sophomore, F - Hanover, Mass.) - Tedeschi guided the Sharks to a 2-0 week, which included a pair of hat tricks against Dean and then against seventh-seeded Anna Maria in the GNAC Tournament Quarterfinals.. Against the AMCATS on Saturday, she helped the Sharks advance to the GNAC Semifinals for the first time since 2019, recording three goals, while also connecting on two more scores for a career single-game best eight points. Earlier in the week, she tied her previous single-game high with seven points – three goals and an assist – against the Bulldogs.
GNAC WEEKLY ARCHIVE
| WEEK | PLAYER | GOALKEEPER |
ROOKIE |
| 1 | Aoife Daly, CSC | Abby Boudreau, LAS | Abby Boudreau, LAS |
| 2 | Sheridan Blaha, LAS | Lauren Wilkinson, CSC | Taylor Gaudette, CSC |
| 3 | Aleah Murph, CSC | Kassidy Collins, SJC | Maya Waryas, SJC |
| 4 | Aoife Daly, CSC (2) | Kassidy Collins, SJC (2) | Mei Tobin, JWU |
| 5 | Jillian Miele, JWU | Abby Boudreau, LAS (2) | Abby Boudreau, LAS (2) |
| 6 | Jillian Miele, JWU (2) | Serena Montague, AMC | Ariana Komonaj, USJ |
| 7 | Waryas, SJC/Gonyea, SIM | Hannah Tobey, ANNA | Maya Waryas, SJC (2) |
| 8 | Margaret Johnson, JWU | Serena Montague, AMC (2) | Maya Waryas, SJC (3) |
| 9 | Lily Stark, LAS | Courtney Tello, LAS | Taylor Gaudette, CSC (2) |
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