GNAC Field Hockey Report: Week 4

( FOR THE WEEK OF SEPT. 16 - 22 )

	PLAYER OF THE WEEK Libby Pomerleau, Saint Joseph's (Maine) (Senior, F - Limerick, Maine) Pomerleau led the Monks to a 2-0 week by scoring three goals and dealing three assists for nine total points in wins over UMaine-Farmington and Albertus Magnus. Against the Falcons, the senior forward totaled six points with two goals and a pair of helpers and broke the Monks' career points record in the process. Pomerleau has netted 149 points (62 goals, 25 assists) over 71 career games.
	GOALKEEPER OF THE WEEK Katie Olsen, Rivier (So, GK - Saugus, Mass.) Olsen was outstanding for the Raiders as her back-to-back shutouts led to a perfect 2-0 week for Rivier. She recorded six saves in the team's 1-0 double-overtime win against Fitchburg State University and followed that up with a career-high 12 save performance in the program's first win over Simmons University; a 1-0 overtime victory for the first conference win of the year. She played a total of 147:17 in net on the week without allowing a goal.
	ROOKIE OF THE WEEK Carissa Letendre, Rivier (Fr, M - Whitinsville, Mass.) Letendre's two game-winners in extra time helped lead the Raiders to a pair of victories in a perfect 2-0 week. The rookie midfielder netted her first career game-winner in the team's 1-0 double overtime win on the road at Fitchburg State before securing the team's first win over Simmons University as her overtime winner lifted Rivier to a 1-0 conference win. She averaged six shots on net over the week with an average of three shots on net.

WEEK 4 HONOR ROLL

Mikayla Lyston, Albertus Magnus (Fr., GK - Medford, N.Y.) - Lyston guided Albertus Magnus field hockey to a 1-1 record week last week, which includes the program's first win in its two-year existence. To begin the week, the freshman goalie made five saves in a complete-game shutout of Dean College. She followed that performance with a program-record 34 saves against the three-time defending GNAC champion Monks of the Saint Joseph's College of Maine. Lyston's 34 saves is the most by a DIII player since the 2017-18 season. 

Ariana Martin, Albertus Magnus (Fr., F - Hamden, Conn.) - Martin generated all of the Falcons' offense in a 2-0 shutout victory over Dean College on Wednesday. The win is the first in Albertus Magnus field hockey history over its two-year existence. Martin's two-goal performance also marked the first multi-goal scorer in program history and the first time the Falcons scored more than once in a game. 

Chayna Bingham-Hendricks, Anna Maria (Jr., M/F - Mashpee, Mass.) - Bingham-Hendricks paced the AMCATS offense last week helping the squad go 2-1. In the game against Bridgewater State, Bingham-Hendricks collected one assist, and one goal to contribute to the Anna Maria 5-0 win. Against conference opponent Johnson & Wales, Bingham-Hendricks assisted on both goals for the AMCATS to finish the week with one goal and three assists (five points).

Aoife Daly, Colby-Sawyer (Fr, F - Harwich, Mass.) - Daly scored her first collegiate goal, which was the game-winning tally in overtime, to lift the Colby-Sawyer field hockey team to an important 3-2 win over Lasell on Saturday. 

Jillian Miele, Johnson & Wales (RI) (So., F - Wilmington, Mass.) - Miele registered two goals and an assist over the course of the two-game week for Johnson & Wales. Midway through the week, the Wilmington, Massachusetts native recorded a goal an assist against non-conference Clark University before closing out the week with the Wildcats lone goal against conference foe Anna Maria College. 

The Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) is an NCAA Division III association made up of 13 member institutions and over 3,000 student-athletes across the New England region. Founded in 1995, the GNAC annually sponsors and administers 22 championships, while balancing academic integrity, athletic opportunity and community involvement in an effort to enhance the student-athlete experience. 

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