18 Saves made by field hockey goalie Breen McDonald ’10, who earned NESCAC Player of the Week honors, in a 1-0 setback to Bowdoin on Saturday.
13 Seconds remaining in regulation when Bowdoin scored the only goal of the game.
2-0-1 Record of the women’s soccer team, which is off to its best start since 1993 (6-0-0).
3 Goals by forward Keisuke Yamashita ’10 during the men’s soccer team’s 3-1 over Springfield on Wednesday night, the first Wesleyan player to record a hat trick since Brandon Smith ’08 on Oct. 20, 2004.
3:30 Time, in minutes and seconds, in which Yamashita achieved the hat trick—the fourth-fastest in NCAA Division III history.
Did You Know…?
In his second career start Saturday against Bowdoin, men’s soccer goalkeeper Nigel Stacey ’11 made three saves to shut out the Polar Bears—just four days after allowing three goals in a 3-0 setback to Western New England in his first start. Stacey is the first Wesleyan goalkeeper to allow three goals in one game and record a shutout in his next start since Matt Gnall ’08 in 2006. Gnall allowed three goals as the team tied Bates 3-3 on Oct. 14, then made seven saves to help the team tie Amherst 0-0 on Oct. 21.
Stacey is also the first Wesleyan goalie to record a shutout in just his second career start since Mark Penrod ’01. Penrod played 71 minutes against Salve Regina on Oct. 29, 1997 and made four saves, allowing no goals before being lifted for David Dietche ’98, who completed the shutout (Penrod does not get credit for a shutout since he did not play the entire game). Penrod’s next start came in the 1998 opener at W.P.I. on Sept. 18. He played all 120 minutes of the double-overtime affair, again making four saves to lead the Cardinals to a 0-0 tie. (Penrod also recorded a shutout in two of his next three games, making four saves against Clark and five at Springfield—the Cardinals won both games 2-0).
The women’s soccer team recorded two shutouts of its own in the past week: the team tied Bowdoin 0-0 on Saturday—behind six saves from Gavi Elkind ’09—and defeated Smith 2-0 on Wednesday. Claire Colton ’12 got the start and made two saves for a shutout in her first career start. Colton is the first freshman to record a shutout for Wesleyan—man or woman—since Andrea Giuliano ’09, who made nine saves in a 0-0 double-overtime tie against Middlebury on Sept. 24, 2005 (in her fourth career start).
Since 1992, no Wesleyan soccer goalie has recorded a shutout in his or her first career start—and the Cardinals nearly had a second player perform the feat, as men’s soccer goalie Nick Boskovitch ’10 made four saves but allowed a goal in the 64th minute at Springfield in his first career start.
Overall, Wesleyan soccer teams ran off a string of three consecutive shutouts (men and women against Bowdoin Saturday; women against Smith Wednesday). This is the second consecutive year this has happened, with the teams combining for three straight whitewashes (the men blanked Tufts, and both teams did the honors against Bates) from Oct. 10-13, 2007.
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