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Game Notes: WSOC opens 2011 season, hosts Montreat Saturday
By Matt Green
Lady Hawks (0-0) vs. Montreat (0-1)
Saturday, Aug. 27, 6 pm, Ben Brady Field
ROME -- The Shorter University women's soccer team opens the 2011 season tomorrow, Saturday, Aug. 27, when it takes to Ben Brady Field against Montreat College at 6 pm. The Lady Hawks, fresh off a record-setting 2010 season in which they won 10 matches for the first time in school history, look to start 2011 off on the right foot against Montreat, which opened the season with a 1-0 loss to Davenport (Mich.) on Aug. 17.
ALL-TIME
SERIES
Tomorrow's match marks the first meeting between Shorter and
Montreat. Shorter finished 2010 with a 10-8-1 overall record while
Montreat posted a 1-15-2 record last season.
LADY HAWKS RECEIVE
VOTE IN NAIA PRESEASON POLL
Shorter picked up one vote in the NAIA Women's Soccer Preseason
Top 25 Coaches Poll, which was released on Aug. 16. This marks the
first time in program history that the Lady Hawks have been
mentioned in the preseason rankings.
READY FOR
MORE
Shorter second-year head coach Jennifer Colley is eager to begin
the 2011 season after leading the Lady Hawks to a school record 10
wins in 2010. Colley, who served two seasons as an assistant coach
with Shorter's women's soccer program, guided Shorter to a 6-1
record in the Southern States Athletic Conference last season.
ON THE MEND
Shorter endured one of the most devastating preseasons in recent
memory, losing two starters for the season and two other key
contributors indefinitely. Senior captain and midfielder Mary Kate Lollar and
junior central defender Samantha Stephens are
lost for the year after each suffered a torn anterior cruciate
ligament in Shorter's first preseason scrimmage. Sophomore
midfielder Carleigh
Butcher will miss at least a month after undergoing surgery on
a broken kneecap she sustained during the Lady Hawks' second
preseason exhibition and the Lady Hawks are still waiting on the
return of sophomore defender Blair Fine, who is out
indefinitely with lingering symptoms of a severe concussion she
suffered last season.
