Junior Kirstie St. Martin headlines Stonehill three NE-10 postseason award winners with her spot on the All-NE-10 first team. |
Stonehill Trio Earn NE-10 Postseason Honors
St. Martin and Mahoney earn
All-Northeast-10 accolades
Nagle named to NE-10 All-Rookie Team
EASTON, Mass. (November 25, 2009) - Three members of the Stonehill College women's soccer team earned postseason honors in the Northeast-10 Conference for their efforts this season. Junior forward Kirstie St. Martin (Providence, R.I./Mount Saint Charles Academy) and sophomore midfielder Kelsey Mahoney (Rehoboth, Mass./Dighton-Rehoboth) both earned All-Northeast-10 Conference honors, while freshman back Sara Nagle (Manchester, Conn./Manchester) was selected to the NE-10's All-Rookie team by the Conference's 16 head coaches.
St. Martin, who earned a spot on the All-NE-10 first team with her first All-Conference selection, ranks 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.
Sophomore Kelsey Mahoney earned third team All-NE-10 honors after leading the Conference with ten assists. |
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.
Mahoney, who was selected to the All-NE-10 third team, joins her teammate as a first-time All-Conference selection. She leads the Northeast-10 with ten assists to go with five goals for 20 points (9th NE-10) this fall for the Skyhawks. Mahoney chipped in with two match-winners and two first goals for the year.
Mahoney closed out the regular season with points in seven of Stonehill's final eight matches, including a six-match point streak at one point. She registered a goal and two assists in a 4-0 win at Pace University on October 17 and then followed that up with two assists in a key 3-0 win at Assumption College on October 20.
Freshman Sara Nagle was a key part of a Skyhawk defense which yielded just three goals over their final seven regular season matches. |
Mahoney has totaled seven goals (two match-winners) and 14 assists for 28 career points in 37 matches played over her first two collegiate seasons. Her ten assists this season fell just one shy of the program's single-season record.
Nagle was a key member of a Stonehill defensive unit which finished the year with a 1.28 team goals against average with six shutouts. Nagle started all 19 matches in her first collegiate season and chipped in with a goal. That goal came in the Skyhawks key late season win at Assumption.
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.
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.
