Marquette University Athletics
Women's Soccer Faces Missouri In NCAA Tournament
11/8/1999 12:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
Nov. 8, 1999
MILWAUKEE -
THE WEEK AHEAD Markus Roeders? Marquette women?s soccer team (15-6-2) plays in its first-ever NCAA Tournament this week, going to Columbia, Mo., on Wed., Nov. 10, for a 2:30 p.m. (CT) game against the nationally-ranked Missouri Tigers. The winner of that contest advances to meet seventh-seeded Clemson in Clemson, S.C., on Sat., Nov. 13, at 7 p.m. (CT).
LAST WEEK The Golden Eagles earned their first-ever bid to the NCAA Tournament after winning the Conference USA Championship with a 2-1 overtime victory over UNC Charlotte on Sat., Nov. 6. Erin Morgan?s (Stevens Point, Wis. / Stevens Point Area) bending game-winner in the 93rd minute sewed up the league?s automatic NCAA bid and earned the senior striker Most Valuable Forward honors at the tournament. Kate Gordon (Sioux City, Iowa / North) netted MU?s first goal and Most Valuable Midfielder Kelly Roethe (Wauwatosa, Wis. / DSHA) directed a Marquette attack that controlled play for a majority of the contest after allowing a 49er goal only 41 seconds into the contest.
Marquette advanced to the title game with a pair of convincing wins, knocking off UAB 2-1 and Southern Miss 6-0 in the quarterfinals and semifinals, respectively. Junior striker Katherine Ward (Trumbull, Conn. / Trumbull) netted the game-winner in both contests. Mo Bothwell (Carmel, Ind. / Carmel) went 3-0 at the tournament, allowing only two goals and making eight saves.
A LOOK AT MISSOURI Coach Bryan Blitz?s 25th-ranked Tigers also make their first appearance in the NCAA Tournament Wednesday. Mizzou (14-7-2) wound up as the runner-up in the Big 12 Tournament following a 2-1 loss to fourth-ranked Nebraska in the championship game on Sat., Nov. 6. Blitz is in his fourth season at Missouri, where he has compiled a 38-42-2 (.476) record. In nine season as a head coach, he has an overall record of 73-86-10 (.462). The Tigers feature a high-powered attack led by strikers Erin Grimsley and Nikki Thole, an All-American candidate. Keeper Jackie Adamec, a transfer from UAB, has a 1.91 goals against average (GAA), 121 saves and four shutouts. This will be the first meeting between Marquette and Missouri.
HEAD COACH MARKUS ROEDERS Markus Roeders has a 60-19-9 (.733) record in his fourth season as head coach at Marquette. He leads the Golden Eagles into the first-ever NCAA Tournament action this week after Marquette earned the C-USA Tournament title for the first time. Roeders has led the Golden Eagles to 10 wins or more in each of his four seasons. Roeders directed the Golden Eagles to back-to-back C-USA regular-season championships in 1996-97 and has guided the Golden Eagles to four consecutive trips to the C-USA Tournament championship game. Effective Sept. 1, he started a three-year term as a member of the NCAA Division I Women?s Soccer Committee. A 1990 graduate of UNC Asheville, Roeders earned the 1996 C-USA Coach of the Year Award. Prior to taking over the reigns of the women?s program, Roeders served for two years as assistant coach for the Marquette men?s team under his collegiate coach Steve Adlard. Roeders played his final two seasons at UNC Asheville and was team captain as a senior. He is assisted by Frank Pelaez and Dan Holcomb.
IN THE POLLS Two Marquette opponents were ranked in the national polls last week: Santa Clara was ranked #1 by both Soccer America and the NSCAA and NCAA Tournament foe Missouri was #25 by the NSCAA. Marquette is #9 again in this week?s NSCAA Great Lakes Region Rankings. Other NSCAA regional rankings: Missouri is #4 and Saint Louis is #10 in the Central, Illinois is #5 and Wisconsin #8 in the Great Lakes, UNC Charlotte is #9 in the Southeast, and Santa Clara is #1 in the West.
RAY OF LIGHT Roethe finished the regular season as the league?s leading scorer this season and added a goal in Marquette?s quarterfinal win over UAB. The center midfielder, selected to her fourth straight All-C-USA First Team earlier this week, currently has 33 points on a team-high 13 goals and seven assists. The senior co-captain now has 123 career points on 49 goals and 25 assists. She is Marquette?s all-time leader in points and goals, and is second all-time in assists. Roethe is also C-USA?s all-time leading scorer.
POINT FORWARD Senior forward Morgan has started all 23 games for Marquette. The workhorse striker has 18 points on seven goals and four assists, and also has tallied three game-winning goals. She earned the first league honor of her career at the conclusion of the regular season, being named to the All-C-USA Third Team. Morgan is ranked among Marquette?s all-time career leaders with 63 points (third), 22 goals (third) and 17 assists (fifth). She collected a helper on Ward?s game-winner against UAB.
?NETTE GAINS Lanette Rossini (Roseville, Minn. / Totino-Grace) continued her late-season surge with a C-USA record-tying two assists against Southern Miss. Rossini concluded the regular season with eight points in the last four games and currently has career-highs with eight goals and 23 points for the year. She was named to the All-C-USA Third Team. She concluded the regular season among the league leaders with 21 points on eight goals and five assists. Among Marquette?s all-time career leaders, Rossini is fifth with 58 points, fourth with 20 goals and tied for third with 18 assists.
K?S CHOICE After being named to the All-C-USA Third team last week, Ward was hot in the C-USA tournament, netting the game-winners in Marquette?s first two games. The junior striker has tallied a career-high 24 points this season, good for second on the team. She has eight goals and a team-high eight assists.
ONE MO? TIME Between the pipes for Marquette on Wednesday will be Bothwell, the 5-6 junior keeper who has started all 23 contests for the Golden Eagles. A two-time All-C-USA First Team pick, Bothwell is 14-6-2 with nine shutouts, 81 saves and a 1.05 GAA. She is second all-time at Marquette with 206 saves and is Marquette?s all-time leader with 28 career shutouts.
DEFENSE WINS GAMES Senior co-captain Kate Loughran (Cincinnati, Ohio / Ursuline) and juniors Rhegan Hyypio (St. Petersburg, Fla. / Lakewood) and Heather O?Neil (Shoreview, Minn. / Totino-Grace) are the leaders of a Marquette defense that has allowed less than a goal per game and recorded nine shutouts this season. During Marquette?s current eight-game winning streak, the trio has helped the Golden Eagles hold opponents to only three goals.
All three defenders have been in the opening lineup for all 23 games this season. Hyypio and O?Neil garnered All-C-USA Second Team honors, while Loughran has scored a career-high five points this season.
IN THE MIDDLE Joining Roethe and Rossini in the midfield are junior Melissa Moffatt (Waukesha, Wis. / Catholic Memorial) and sophomore Anna Frisk (Rochester, N.Y. / Greece Athena). Both players netted goals against Southern Miss in the C-USA Tournament and each now has eight points on the season.
FRESHMAN FINDS A pair of first-year strikers has supplied some potent scoring punch off the bench this season. C-USA All-Freshmen pick Gordon and classmate Ashley Spakowitz (Hartland, Wis. / Arrowhead) have played major roles for the Golden Eagles in their debut seasons. Gordon leads the Marquette newcomers with 18 points after netting the game-tying goal in the C-USA title match. Spakowitz has added 12 points on four goals and four assists. Both tallied goals in Marquette?s semifinal win over Southern Miss.
Also making a fine impression in their debut seasons:
Right outside back Diana Detrie (Green Bay, Wis. / Notre Dame Academy) broke into the opening lineup against Memphis on Sept. 24 and has remained in a starting role since then.
Anne Dalecky (Wauwatosa, Wis. / East) and Kristin Halley (Overland Park, Kan. / St. Thomas Aquinas) have both logged significant minutes at the center midfield and back positions. Halley has totaled three points on a goal and an assist.
Midfielder Erin Maysent (Ames, Iowa / Ames Community) and defender Jaime Krofta (Dousman, Wis. / Kettle Moraine) also have both played their way into the regular rotation. Keeper Ashleigh Koenig (Naperville, Ill. / Naperville) shared in six of the Golden Eagles? shutouts and allowed only one goal in 256 minutes en route to a 1-0-0 mark.
ONE-TIMERS Rounding out the Marquette roster at the tournament are sophomore midfielders Amy Hnatow (Fairview, N.C. / A.C. Reynolds), Jenny Strachota (Milwaukee, Wis. / DSHA) and Stephanie Welch (Columbus, Ohio / Worthington). Strachota netted her first goal of the season and added an assist in the semifinals against Southern Miss. Hnatow has proved valuable as a back-up at the center midfield spots. The versatile Welch provides a strong left foot and can also play in the back field. She has seven points on the season, while Strachota has recorded four.
C-USA LEADERS Several Golden Eagles ranked among the C-USA regular-season statistical leaders. Roethe led the league with 31 points, was second with 12 goals, tied for fourth with seven assists and tied for eighth with 45 shots. Rossini finished tied for seventh with 21 points and her eight goals tied her for fifth in the league. Ward was 10th with 20 points and tied for second with eight assists. Bothwell was second with eight shutouts, fourth with a 1.11 GAA and seventh with 73 saves. Koenig tied for tenth with three shutouts.
Among the team leaders, Marquette led the league with 147 points, 48 goals and 51 assists. The Golden Eagles finished fifth with 257 shots. Defensively, the Golden Eagles are second with a 1.01 GAA, tied for second with eight shutouts and ninth with 76 saves.
MARQUETTE SOCCER ON THE NET The Marquette women?s soccer website contains all of the most recent information on the Golden Eagles. Weekly media releases, current statistics and results, Conference USA standings and game stories and reviews can be found at: www.gomarquette.com
FOR MORE INFORMATION Contact Marquette assistant sports information director Josh Sutter at (414) 288-6980 or at: joshua.sutter@marquette.edu
