Johnson and Shoemaker Named To All Atlantic Region Team

WJU's Houston Named Daktronics Atlantic Region Soccer Player of the Year; Four WVIAC Standouts Earn First Team All-Region Honors
11/17/2009

(SLIPPERY ROCK, PA)---Wheeling Jesuit University forward Kara Houston was named Tuesday as the Daktronics, Inc. Atlantic Region women’s soccer “Player of the Year.”

Houston also headlined a list of 13 student-athletes named to first-team all-region honors in voting powered by ATHLETICSITE.COM and conducted among sports information directors at NCAA Division II institutions located in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

A junior from Washington, Pa., Houston was the leading goal scorer in the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference this fall with 24 and added four assists to finish the season with 52 points. A first-team All-WVIAC selection, she led her team to an 11-10 overall record.

Other WVIAC first team honorees are Concord's Gemma Nortcliffe, Davis & Elkins' Megan Beal, and Alderson-Broaddus' Megan Johnson.

WVIAC Tournament champion West Virginia Wesleyan had six second team all-region selections in Jill Morrison, Katie Roberts, Hannah Macormic, Meghan Zayas, Alanna Torrey, and Caroline Lalley. Davis & Elkins teammates and sisters Cole and Megan Dant were also second team picks. Kasie Shoemaker (A-B) and Fallon Nicholas (Charleston) round out the WVIAC honorees on the second squad.

The complete list of Daktronics, Inc. All-Atlantic Region selections follows:

DAKTRONICS INC. WOMEN’S SOCCER ALL-ATLANTIC REGION TEAMS

Player of the Year: Kara Houston, forward, Wheeling Jesuit

FIRST TEAM

Forward: Amanda Heister, California; Kara Houston, Wheeling Jesuit; Gemma Nortcliffe, Concord; Sarah Oswald, West Chester.

Midfielder: Devon Miniscalco, East Stroudsburg; Jen Hutchinson, West Chester; Megan Beal, Davis & Elkins; Heather Robbins, Indiana.

Defender: Jenna Arnold, West Chester; Chelsea Deeter, Kutztown; Megan Johnson, Alderson-Broaddus; Cindi Nickels, West Chester

Goalkeeper: Lyndsie Bernardini, West Chester

SECOND TEAM

Forward: Cole Dant, Davis & Elkins; Taylor Hilinski, Mercyhurst; Jill Morrison, West Virginia Wesleyan; Kasie Shoemaker, Alderson-Broaddus; Megan Zayas, West Virginia Wesleyan.

Midfielder: Carina Honeygosky, California; Hannah Macormic, West Virginia Wesleyan; Katie Roberts, West Virginia Wesleyan; Jessica Bennett, West Chester

Defender: Allison Dant, Davis & Elkins; Tara Malkiewicz, West Chester; Fallon Nicholas, Charleston; Alanna Torrey, West Virginia Wesleyan

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AB Men's Soccer Falls to UC, 4-1

(Philippi, WV) -- The A-B College Men's Soccer team dropped a WVIAC battle to the visiting Golden Eagles of Charleston by a score of 4-1 this afternoon.

The Battlers would start off on the right foot as Sophomore Juan Arobleda would notch his 1st career goal just 1 minute and 43 seconds into the contest. Heiko Voss would beat the keeper around the left side of the goal and then tap it back across for the easy tap in goal.

However, just two minutes later UC would answer right back as Rob Vincent would drill a shot from the right side of the box just passed the outstretch arms of GK Neil Wright-Elliot and squeeze it inside the left post.

Charleston's Darko Karamatic would put the Golden Eagles in the lead for good in the 25th minute as he would beat Wright-Elliot with a blast in the upper right corner after getting around the Battlers' central defenders.

Vincent would make it 3-1 on his second goal in the 44th minute as he would slot the perfectly played square pass Karamatic into the left side from 8 yards out.

Drew DeAngelo would cap the scoring in the 89th minute as a UC shot would be saved off the line by right back Jacob Hill and land right to DeAngelo who wasted no time burying it into the far right side netting.

For the game Charleston out shot the host Battlers 20-8. The teams were even with five corner kicks a piece.

A-B College returns to action this Sunday and Monday as they travel to Johnstown, PA. Kick off is at 2pm Sunday as they take on Columbia Union. Then on Monday they will take on Holy Family at Noon. Both games will be played on the campus of the University of Pitt-Johnstown. Read more on this article...

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