Junior forward Kirstie St. Martin earned second team All-Region and first team All-New England honors for Stonehill. |
St. Martin Collects Regional Honors
Providence, R.I., native earns first team NEWISA All-Star and second team All-Region honors; Regan also named NEWISA All-Star
EASTON, Mass. (December 21, 2009) - Two members of the Stonehill College women's soccer team have earned regional honors it was announced recently.
Junior forward Kirstie St. Martin (Providence, R.I./Mount Saint Charles Academy) earned both first team All-Star honors from the New England Women's Intercollegiate Soccer Association (NEWISA) as well as second team All-East Region honors from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA). Senior midfielder Kelly Regan (Mansfield, Mass./Mansfield) collected second team NEWISA All-Star accolades.
St. Martin, who also earned first team All-Northeast-10 Conference honors this fall, collects All-Region honors for the first time. She ranked fourth among Northeast-10 leaders with her team-leading 33 points, while ranking third with her team-best 14 goals to go with five assists - good for second on the Skyhawks, this fall. She posted a team-best three match-winning goals for Stonehill, adding one hat trick, a first goal and a game-tying marker. She earned NE-10 Player of the Week honors once this season as well.
St. Martin |
St. Martin registered four multi-goal matches this year and five matches with four or more points. She netted a hat trick to lead the Stonehill to a 3-1 season-opening win at Holy Family University, an NCAA Tournament participant this season, on August 29. She played a role in all three Skyhawk goals with a goal and two assists in a key 3-2 win over Saint Anselm College on October 10. St. Martin enjoyed two four-match point streaks and finished the season with points in five of Stonehill's last six matches of the regular season and seven in its last nine - posting 20 points in the Skyhawks final nine contests.
St. Martin will enter her senior season with 25 goals (four match-winners) and 11 assists for 61 points in 55 career matches played. She ranks sixth in program history for career goals and eighth in career points. Her 33 points this season are tied for the third-highest single-season total in program history.
Regan |
Regan earns All-New England honors for the first time with her selection to the NEWISA All-Star second team. She played all 19 matches for Stonehill this season, starting 18, and scored one goal for two points, scoring an equalizing goal at eventual national semifinalist College of Saint Rose on September 12. Regan was also part of a defense defensive unit which finished the year with a 1.28 team goals against average with six shutouts.
As the season wore on, Stonehill's defense got stingier during its drive to the postseason. Over their final seven matches of the regular season (6-0-1), the Skyhawks yielded just three goals for a 0.42 team GAA with five shutouts. Stonehill posted four-straight clean sheets during that stretch, and a scoreless streak of over 410 minutes.
Regan, who earned a spot on the NE-10 Championships All-Tournament team this fall, was a second team All-Northeast-10 performer her junior season. She finished her career with six goal and eight assists for 20 points in 65 career matches played. She led Stonehill with seven assists her freshman season.
Stonehill, ranked tenth in the final regular season National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA)/adidas Division II East regional rankings, finished its season with a 10-8-1 record overall, 8-6-1 in the Northeast-10 to finish sixth in the Conference standings. The Skyhawks bounced back from a 4-7-1 start (2-6-0 in NE-10 play) at the end of September to posted a 6-1-1 clip the rest of the way, closing out the regular season with a seven-match unbeaten run (6-0-1) before being edged by third-seeded and No. 23-ranked University of Massachusetts Lowell in the NE-10 Tournament Quarterfinals.
