Oct. 10, 2009
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - The Penn State women's soccer team (6-5-1, 2-1-0) faces Iowa (8-5-0, 0-3-0 Big Ten) at Jeffrey Field on Sunday for an 11:00 a.m. clash. PSU leads the all-time series 14-0 over the Hawkeyes entering the match, which will welcome fans to a CODE BLUE event on a sunny Sunday morning.
Penn State will look translate Sunday's upset win over Ohio State and a Friday night victory over Northwestern into a three-game winning streak as PSU holds a 14-game winning streak over Iowa. The Nittany Lions are led offensively by the trio of Danielle Toney (15 points), Katie Schoepfer (13), and Christine Nairn (12).
NAEHER, NAIRNHONORS: With the upset win over the nationally ranked Buckeyes, two Lions--Alyssa Naeher and Christine Nairn-- earned Big Ten Weekly honors. Naeher garnered her third Defensive Player of the Week award of 2009, while Nairn picked up her first Freshman of the Week honor.
SCOUTINGTHEHAWKEYES: Iowa dropped a tough 1-0 overtime match at home against Wisconsin last week, putting the Hawkeyes in last at 0-2 in the conference. On Friday Iowa lost a barnburner of a game, 3-2, at Ohio State to fall to 0-3 in the Big Ten. Iowa has been out-scoring opponents by a 1.35 goal margin this season. Leading the offensive display is Keli McLaughlin with 15 points (7G, 1A). Alyssa Cosnek and Alyscha Mottershead each have three goals and four assists for 10 points this season. Emily Moran has started every game garnering 51 saves, five shutouts with a .864 save percentage and 0.69 goals against average.
SCORINGSTREAKS: Katie Schoepfer and Christine Nairn have picked up the offense, combining to score the team's last six of seven goals dating back to Sept. 20 vs. James Madison. Nairn has tallied the three of the goals, while Schoepfer provided three more of them, including Sunday's game-winner over Ohio State. The duo rank second and third, respectively, behind Danielle Toney in goals and points.
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