Wheaton College Athletics

NCAA DIVISION III WOMEN'S SOCCER TOURNAMENT 1ST & 2ND ROUND
Hosted by Wheaton College at Joe Bean Stadium
November 11-12, 2011

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FIRST ROUND MATCHES - NOVEMBER 11
Wheaton 5, Penn State-Behrend 0:   Boxscore

Capital University 1, Alma College 0: Boxscore

SECOND ROUND MATCHES - NOVEMBER 12
Wheaton College vs. Capital University, 6 PM:  Video  ---  Livestats  ---  Boxscore

As a NCAA Championship event no free passes (season passes, parents passes, student ID’s or faculty/staff ID) will be accepted. Admission to each day is $6 for adults, students (ages 12 and up) are $3, senior citizens are $3, ages 3-12 are $2 and children two years old and younger will be admitted for free.

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FIRST ROUND RECAP: Capital 1, Alma 0

Wheaton, Ill. – The Capital University women’s soccer team defeated Alma College, 1-0 on Friday night in a First Round match of the 2011 NCAA Division III Women’s Soccer Tournament. Alma ends the year with a record of 18-4-1, while Capital improves to 13-7-2. Capital advances to face host Wheaton on Saturday night at 6 PM in a Second Round match. Wheaton advanced with a 5-0 win against Penn State-Behrend in the other First Round match at Joe Bean Stadium.
 
Capital’s Natalie Fiorelli scored at the 19:55 mark of Friday’s match against the Scots to give the Crusaders an early 1-0 lead. Fiorelli put the ball into the net from about 10 yards out, on an assist from Kaylee Phillips.
 
Alma out-shot the Crusaders 14-6 in the match, including an 8-1 edge in the second half. Capital goalkeeper Maggie Donnellan made eight saves in recording the shutout. Alma netminder Morgan Waier made two saves and allowed one goal.

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FIRST ROUND RECAP: Wheaton 5, Penn State-Behrend 0

Wheaton, Ill. - Crisp passing and dominant ball possession by the Wheaton College women's soccer team resulted in a 5-0 victory over Penn State-Behrend in Round One of the NCAA National Tournament on Friday. Capital University defeated Alma College 1-0 in the other First Round match on Friday. The Thunder will host Capital at 6 PM on Saturday in a Second Round match.

The Thunder runs its record to 19-1-2 and will host the NCAA second round game at 6 PM on Saturday. The Lions finish their season with a record of 13-7-2.

The game action started slowly on the cold, breezy evening as both teams felt each other out. Wheaton worked methodically and patiently from the back to try to set up the offense.

It was 24:19 into the game when the hosts broke onto the scoreboard. Senior sweeper #Kaitlyn Le Baudour# dribbled the ball aggressively up through the defense into the box, where she passed off to junior midfielder #Keri Shannon#. Shannon then sent a left-footed blast inside the left post to give Wheaton the 1-0 lead.
Wheaton possessed the ball all evening, winning balls in the air at midfield and pressing up to the forwards with quick one-touch passes. The night’s second goal came at 37:07 in the opening half when Shannon distributed to an open #Jaime Orewiler#, who struck from 14 yards out. It marked Orewiler’s 11th goal of the season.

Following the halftime break, the Thunder continued to aggressively make runs at the goal. Lead passes into space helped the hosts dissect the defense and created scoring opportunities from distance.

Wheaton increased its lead by scoring three goals over a five-and-a-half minute span midway through the second half. Shannon tallied her team-best 12th goal of the season from 10 yards out at the 64:08 mark off a double assist from Orewiler and freshman #Marlee Disher#.

Just 80 seconds later, freshman #Sarah Guidera# headed in her eighth goal of the year to the upper left corner. Orewiler set up the play with a pass to junior defender #Erin Strom#, who sent in a cross from 30 yards straight to Guidera’s head to tally the double assist.

Wheaton’s #Val Lelle# wrapped up the scoring at 69:42. The junior midfielder absorbed a tackle and simultaneously cranked a shot to the opposite corner that found the netting from 25 yards out.

Penn State-Behrend earned its best scoring chance of the night in the 68th minute when a foul in the box gave Valerie Wagner a penalty kick opportunity. But her shot was saved by Wheaton goalkeeper #Kelsey Graham#

The Thunder finished the game with a 28-2 shot advantage in the game, including an 11-0 edge in corner kicks. Graham made one save to get the shutout in net. Robin Siegenthaler collected 10 saves while allowing five goals to take the loss.

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TOURNAMENT PREVIEW


Alma, under the tutelage of sixth-year Head Coach Jeff Hosler, stand at 18-3-1 on the season, including 12-3-1 in the MIAA. The 2011 season marked the fourth consecutive season in which Alma finished among the top three teams in the league, and the 18 victories this season is a school record. The Scots have won eight of their past nine contests.


Defensively, the Scots ranked first in the MIAA in goals allowed with 15 in 22 games. Goalkeeper Morgan Waier has started each of the last four games in place of injured keeper Monica Witt, and has four victories. Waier has a G.A.A. of 0.37 with two shutout in seven games and has played 480 minutes this season. Witt led the league with a G.A.A. of 0.77 in 18 games. She has recorded 10 shutouts and has given up just 13 goals in over 1,500 minutes of action.

The Scots had six players named All-MIAA by the league. The team had four players named first team and two players honored on the second team, and the six honorees marks the most in school history. The first teamers were Cunningham, Marton, Reising and Witt, while Jr. D Brittany Dulyea and Handyside both earned second team All-MIAA honors.

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The Capital University women’s soccer team enters the 2011 NCAA Division III Women’s Soccer Tournament on a nine-match winning streak, and hasn’t lost since Oct. 8 at fellow NCAA qualifier Ohio Northern. The Crusaders took the Ohio Athletic Conference’s automatic bid with a 4-2 victory over fourth-seeded John Carroll in the tournament final last Sunday at home. As the No. 3 seed in the conference tournament, Capital defeated sixth-seeded Wilmington 4-1 before knocking off 2010 Final Four participant Otterbein, the No. 2 seed, by a 1-0 score in the semifinals.
 
After a 1-5 start to the season, the Crusaders (12-7-2) are 11-2-2 since Sept. 14, outscoring opponents 38-13 during that span. In addition to posting a 7-1-1 record in the OAC, Capital registered a 1-0-1 mark against the top two finishers in the neighboring North Coast Athletic Conference, including a season-opening 4-0 victory over NCAA selection Ohio Wesleyan on Sept. 1.
 
 
Crusaders head coach Chris Kouns is in his first season at the helm, joining the Capital staff last spring after a stint as associate head coach at the University of Cincinnati. This is the Crusaders’ fourth appearance in the NCAA Tournament, and first since 2007, when the team was defeated at Calvin (Mich.) in the first round.

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PENN STATE-BEHREND LIONS Penn State-Behrend is making its fourth NCAA Tournament appearance. Behrend’s previous NCAA appearances occurred in 2000, 2006 and 2007. The Lions became just the the second team in conference history with a number-three seed to win the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) Tournament. In 2002, Frostburg State defeated La Roche 3-1 in penalty kicks for the title.

Behrend finished the AMCC regular season with a 7-2 record, only falling to Pitt-Bradford and Altoona. The Lions defeated the PItt-Bradford Panthers 2-1 in the AMCC semifinals and the Penn State-Altoona Lions in the championship game last Saturday.


The Lions will be facing Wheaton in the first round for the first-ever meeting between the two team. The Lions have never faced Alma, but lost to Capital 3-2 in their only meeting back in 1999.

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WHEATON COLLEGE THUNDER

This year’s trip to the postseason is Wheaton’s 15th consecutive appearance in the NCAA Division III Women’s Soccer Tournament, the second-longest active streak in Division III. Wheaton is 36-8-5 (.786) all-time in the postseason, with five Final Four appearances and National Championships in 2004, 2006 and 2007, in addition to a runner-up finish in 2008. Wheaton’s 78.6% tournament winning percentage is the second-highest of any current Division III member institution in the history of the Division III

Wheaton earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, by winning the CCIW Tournament. The Thunder and Illinois Wesleyan tied 2-2 in the CCIW Tournament Championship match, however, the Thunder earned the tournament bid with a 7-6 edge in a shootout. Wheaton posted an 18-1-2 record on the season, with a 6-1 record in CCIW play during the regular season to win the program’s 15th CCIW Championship.


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