Frostburg State And Stevenson Win Saturday, Will Play Sunday For 2011 ECAC South Women's Soccer Championship
CAC rivals Frostburg State and Stevenson won semifinal games Saturday and will face each other Sunday for the 2011 ECAC South Women's Soccer championship.
FSU defeated Penn State-Altoona, 5-1, while Stevenson edged Albright by a 1-0 count in Saturday's semifinal contests.
The Bobcats (16-2-2) and Mustangs (14-5-3), who tied for second place in the CAC regular season with 6-1-1 records, played to a scoreless draw during the regular season. The teams also played in the 2010 CAC title match, which Stevenson won in overtime by a 1-0 margin.
In Saturday's first semifinal game at Bobcat Stadium, FSU
exploded for three goals in a five-minus span midway through the
first half en route to a 5-1 win over PSU-Altoona. Sophomore
forward Adria Graham continued her
red-hot streak with two of those first three goals. Both scores
came on breakaways, with freshman Chelsea
Paskowski springing her in the 12th minute and
senior Dorie Gedridge provided the
assist in the 28th minute.
Graham had three other breakaway opportunities denied by Penn St.
Altoona keeper Lindsay Raspanti. Frostburg's middle goal in the
22nd minute resulted from one of those chances. After Graham was
stopped by Raspanti, she couldn't corral the ball just outside the
left post.
The Lions' clearing attempt was unsuccessful, however, and
sophomore Chelsea Paskowski sent the
ball back into the box. Senior Erin
Ford fed freshman Stephanie
Fazenbaker for the goal that made it 2-0.
Although Altoona's Meredith Waters answered less than two minutes
later to make it 3-1, Fazenbaker surely wasn't finished. The
freshman broke open the match in the 66th minute off a cross from
Gedridge. Just two minutes later, Fazenbaker completed the hat
trick by heading home a Liz Seligman
corner kick.
In the nightcap, Stevenson freshman midfielder Brandy Frehrkolb took an assist from senior forward Stephanie Eyler and scored the only goal of the match in the 13th minute as the Mustangs eliminated Albright, 1-0.
Goalie Brittany Ross registered two saves on four Albright shots to get the shutout for the Mustangs, her10th in 21 matches this season.







