Stickley & Harris Garner GNAC Weekly Awards
NEWTON, MA- Elizabeth Stickley (Mashpee, MA) and Jamie Harris (Lynnfield, MA) were recognized by the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) as the women’s soccer Goalkeeper and Rookie of the Week, respectively.
NEWTON, MA- Elizabeth Stickley (Mashpee, MA) and Jamie Harris (Lynnfield, MA) were recognized by the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) as the women's soccer Goalkeeper and Rookie of the Week, respectively.
Stickley has now gathered the league honor in back-to-back weeks. The junior net minder was selected during a week that she recorded two individual shutouts, making ten saves in two contests. She started with seven saves in a 1-0 victory over Johnson & Wales University during a GNAC battle for second place in the league. Stickley then notched three saves in the Lasers' quarter final win over Emerson on Sunday. The games marked Stickley's third and fourth solo shutouts of the season.
Stickley is currently ranked 2nd in the GNAC In goals-against-average (.88) and save percentage (.85) and is tied in 4th place for shutouts (4). In the NCAA, Stickley ranks amongst the top 150 Division III women's soccer goal keepers in the nation at 117th in save percentage and 136th in GAA.
Harris' extraordinary freshman season continued this week as she scored her fourth hat trick of the season against regional stronghold Rhode Island College in a 4-4 double overtime tie for the Lasers. The first-year then tallied both of the Lasers' goals in the 2-0 shutout of Emerson College on Sunday in the conference quarter finals. Harris finished the week with 10 points, averaging 1.6 goals and 2.3 points per game. The standout forward has accumulated 19 season goals and 39 total points so far this year.
Harris is also ranked in the GNAC, as well as nationally. She moved up three places in the rankings nationally this past week, from 29th in goals-per-game (1.077) to 26th. She is also currently sitting in the 44th spot for points-per game (2.23), and 91st in total points. In the conference, Harris ranks 2nd in goal-per-game, 3rd in goals, 4th in points-per-game and game-winning goals, and 5th in total points.
This is Harris' third weekly award from the GNAC, and second consecutive week.