Week Nine: Oct. 13- Oct. 26

SAINTS EARN UCAA PLAYOFF BERTH

Oct. 25- St. Lawrence University clinched the fourth and final Upstate0 Collegiate Athletic Association playoff spot in a 3-1 women’s soccer victory over Vassar College Saturday afternoon at Prentiss Field.

Sophomore forward Sarah Skinner scored the first Saint goal when she scored off a cross from sophomore midfielder Devon Cain at 14:07. Freshman midfielder Samantha Bealer made it 2-0 with less than five minutes in the half, when she broke in all on sophomore goalkeeper Alice England for the goal. Junior midfielder Liz Masterson put the game away four minutes into the second half when she picked up a loose ball inside the Vassar box and scored into a vacant net.

Carly Draper recorded the shutout with three saves for St. Lawrence, 10-4-1, 4-2-1. England made one save in the first half for Vassar, 3-12-0, 1-6-0. Heather Jaffe stopped five shots in the second.

St. Lawrence ended tied with Hamilton in the third seed of conference play, but lost the tie breaker to end up in the fourth and final spot. The first rule of tie breaking is to look at the team's head to head performance and in this case Hamilton and St. Lawrence tied 1-1. The rule next looks at the team's record versus conference opponents in descending order and in this case Hamilton beat Union, who is in first place. St. Lawrence will draw host Union College in the first round of the UCAA Championship and more details will be available at the end of the week. The Saints close out their regular season at Oswego State on November 1st at 1 p.m.

GILLER SCORES SOLO GOAL

Oct. 24- St. Lawrence got ten saves from keeper Carly Draper and scored the game's lone goal at 13:26 of the first half for a Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association victory over the Rensselaer Red Hawks Friday evening.

Jen Giller scored an unassisted goal for the Saints, who improved to 9-4-1 overall and 3-2-1 in the UCAA. Giller is third in scoring for the Saints as she now has three goals on the season.

RPI, which got one save from Tara Marandino and two from Regina Primm, are now 7-5-0 overall and 3-3-0 in the league.

The Saints will travel to Vassar tomorrow afternoon at 4 p.m.

DRAPER AWARDED

Oct. 20- Carly Draper was named UCAA Defensive Performer of the Week for not only last week's action, but for her skills throughout the season.

A first year student from Ottawa, Ontario, Draper made three saves and recorded her sixth shutout on the season as the Saints blanked the Ithaca College Bombers 1-0 last Saturday.