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Stiver Named Week's Top Defender By ECAC
9/26/2012 1:32:00 PM | Field Hockey
ECAC Release
CENTERVILLE, Mass. - After being named BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week on Monday for her pair of shutouts at Rutgers and at No. 3 Princeton last week, Syracuse senior goalkeeper Leann Stiver was named ECAC Field Hockey Defensive Player of the Week on Tuesday.
Stiver played 140 minutes of shutout field hockey last weekend, making four saves in a 6-0 win at Rutgers on Friday and making six stops in a 2-0 win at No. 3 Princeton on Sunday, shutting out the nation's top scoring offense and the nation's top individual scorer.
The Orange is ranked No. 1 in this week's Penn Monto/NFHCA Division I Coaches Poll after being ranked No. 2 the previous three weeks. It is the second time in program history Syracuse has claimed the top spot.
The Amherst, N.Y. native is 9-0 on the season and improved her goals against average, which ranked No. 3 in the country last week, to 0.60. Stiver sports a .839 save percentage on the season and five shutouts, including two over top-three ranked opponents, adding the Princeton win to a 1-0 overtime win over No. 2 North Carolina. She has won 52 games in her career, 17 of which have come by shutout.
The top-ranked Orange, off to its second-best start in program history, behind only its 14-0 start in 2008, returns home to J.S. Coyne Stadium for a pair of games this weekend. On Saturday, Ange Bradley's squad hosts Louisville in a conference match-up at noon before taking on Yale on Sunday at 2 p.m.
CENTERVILLE, Mass. - After being named BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week on Monday for her pair of shutouts at Rutgers and at No. 3 Princeton last week, Syracuse senior goalkeeper Leann Stiver was named ECAC Field Hockey Defensive Player of the Week on Tuesday.
Stiver played 140 minutes of shutout field hockey last weekend, making four saves in a 6-0 win at Rutgers on Friday and making six stops in a 2-0 win at No. 3 Princeton on Sunday, shutting out the nation's top scoring offense and the nation's top individual scorer.
The Orange is ranked No. 1 in this week's Penn Monto/NFHCA Division I Coaches Poll after being ranked No. 2 the previous three weeks. It is the second time in program history Syracuse has claimed the top spot.
The Amherst, N.Y. native is 9-0 on the season and improved her goals against average, which ranked No. 3 in the country last week, to 0.60. Stiver sports a .839 save percentage on the season and five shutouts, including two over top-three ranked opponents, adding the Princeton win to a 1-0 overtime win over No. 2 North Carolina. She has won 52 games in her career, 17 of which have come by shutout.
The top-ranked Orange, off to its second-best start in program history, behind only its 14-0 start in 2008, returns home to J.S. Coyne Stadium for a pair of games this weekend. On Saturday, Ange Bradley's squad hosts Louisville in a conference match-up at noon before taking on Yale on Sunday at 2 p.m.
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