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Nov. 1, 2007
Three players from the IUP field hockey team that won the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference regular season and tournament championship have been named to the All-PSAC team for the 2007 season. Senior defender Liz Martini, junior midfielder Sylvia Guerrieri and sophomore goalkeeper Lydia Dolly were all named to the first team. This is the fourth straight year that Martini is on the all-conference team, including third on the first team. Guerrieri earned her second first team berth and third overall while Dolly is an all-conference selection for the first time in her career. Martini (Effort/Pleasant Valley) leads IUP and ranks fifth in the PSAC with 16 goals and 40 points while placing third on the team and eighth in the conference with eight assists. She is also fourth in the PSAC with four game-winning goals and among the national leaders in points per game (tied for seventh, 2.00), goals per game (10, 0.80) and 12th in assists per game (0.40). Martini tied the IUP school record on September 11 when she scored four goals in a 5-1 win over Bloomsburg, a victory that ended the Huskies' 24-game winning streak and vaulted the Crimson Hawks to No. 1 in the nation. A three-time National Field Hockey Coaches Association All-American, Martini has started all 85 games and has career totals of 41 goals, 27 assists and 109 points. She has led IUP in goals scored the past two seasons, including 15 a year ago. Guerrieri (Boyertown/Brandywine Heights) has scored four goals and added three assists this season for a total of 11 points while starting all 20 games. As a sophomore in 2006, she tied for the team lead with 10 assists and had 16 points. Guerrieri has not missed a start in 62 games during her three-year career and has scored seven goals and distributed 18 assists for 32 points. Dolly (Lancaster/Hempfield) leads the nation in goals against average (0.73) and save percentage (.851). She has played all 1437:55 minutes in goal for the Crimson Hawks and has allowed only 15 goals while making 86 saves. She has 11 shutouts, eight more than any other goalkeeper in the PSAC, including a 1-0 win over Shippensburg in the PSAC semifinals last Friday. Over the past two seasons, Dolly has started 41 of 42 games. She has a career goals against average of 1.10 and a save percentage of .826 while recording 15 shutouts. IUP is 17-3 on the season and won its first-ever PSAC championship with wins over Shippensburg and Bloomsburg at Miller Stadium. The Crimson Hawks will travel to Lowell, Mass., for the NCAA Final Four on November 9, taking on the winner of Saturday's Bloomsburg-Kutztown game in the national semifinals. |
