CALVIN KNIGHT SPORTS REPORT FOR SEPT. 20, 2016
Women's Soccer Shuts Out Saint Mary's;
Volleyball Ascends to Top Spot in AVCA Division III Top 25 Poll
In its seventh game in 13 days, the Calvin women's soccer team hosted the Belles of Saint Mary's College in an MIAA matchup. Coming off a 3-1 victory over Adrian College, the Knights defeated their visitors by a score of 5-0 to improve to 5-3-0 on the season with a 4-1-0 conference mark, while the Belles fell to 1-6-0 on the year and 0-5-0 in the MIAA.
Calvin currently sits in third place in the MIAA individual standings with 12 points and sits two points back of second place Hope and two points ahead of fourth place Olivet.
Calvin went ahead early, scoring two goals by the 13th minute.
Senior Brianna Russell (Plainwell, MI/Delton-Kellogg HS) got the Knights on the board first in the 9th minute, her goal assisted by Allie Corp (Livonia, MI/Stevenson HS). Just over three minutes later, Corp increased Calvin's lead to two goals, Carly Veenstra (North Haledon, NJ/Eastern Christian HS) and Russell earning assists on the play.
At halftime, the Knights had outshot their visitors 9-0.
Calvin came out with lots of energy to start the second half. 14 seconds into the half, freshman Alyson Katje (Kalamazoo, MI/Kalamazoo Christian HS) fed sophomore Bekah Maguire (Holland, MI/Holland Christian HS) who sent the ball into the lower right corner of the goal to put the Knights up 3-0.
Just over eight minutes later, Katje found Maguire again for a fourth Calvin goal.
With just under five minutes left to play, Russell scored her second goal of the night, the assist credited to Veenstra.
The Knights didn't allow the Belles to put a shot on goal for the entire contest, recording 27 total shots themselves.
"I thought we did what we needed to do today in order to get a win," said Calvin women's soccer coach Mark Recker. "We are in a busy stretch of games and I thought our second unit really gave us a nice energy lift. I thought today's result showed the importance of the team. We had contributions all the way down our roster. That was good to see and will help us moving forward."
Calvin is back in action on Saturday at Alma College for another MIAA tilt. Game time is at noon.
MIAA WOMEN'S SOCCER STANDINGS THROUGH 9-20-16 GAMES
Kalamazoo 5-0-1
Hope 4-0-2
Calvin 4-1-0
Olivet 3-1-1
Alma 2-2-1
Trine 2-4-0
Albion 1-4-0
Adrian 0-4-1
Saint Mary's 0-5-0
VOLLEYBALL
The Calvin women's volleyball team has risen once again to the No. 1 ranking the latest AVCA Division III Top 25 poll.
The Knights moved up two spots from last week's poll after winning all four of its matches last week including three matches at the Wittenberg Fall Classic. Now 10-0 on the season, Calvin defeated Adrian and Heidelberg last week and then topped No. 5 Juniata in three sets and No. 4 Wittenberg in four sets.
Calvin last received the No. 1 ranking from the AVCA in the 2015 preseason poll. Calvin opened the 2016 season ranked fifth in the preseason, moved up to third two weeks later and now holds the top spot.
Calvin received 39 first place votes in this week's poll. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, ranked second, received nine first place votes. Colorado College is ranked third while defending national champion Cal Lutheran is ranked fourth with one first place vote to its credit.
Calvin is back in action this Friday when it hosts Kalamazoo at Van Noord Arena in a match set to begin at 7 p.m.
The latest AVCA Division III Top 25 poll can be found online at: https://www.avca.org/polls/diii-women/9-20-16.html
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