Aug. 31, 2010
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Match 4 Match 5 SETTING THE SCENE: Off to their best start in the short history of women's soccer at Cleveland State, the Vikings will remain at home this week to close out the longest home stand ever when they play a pair of matches at Krenzler Field. CSU will host Missouri-Kansas City on Friday, Sept. 3 beginning at 7:00 p.m. to open the week and then take on Canisius on Sunday, Sept. 5 at 12:00 noon. The Canisius contest will be a doubleheader with the Viking men hosting Niagara at 3:00 p.m. The Vikings have opened the season with a 2-0-1 mark, including a 3-0 win over Gannon and a 2-2 double overtime tie with Kent State. REVIEWING LAST WEEK: The Vikings continued their strong start by recording a win and a tie in two matches at home. Here is a synopsis of those matches: Match 2: CSU 3, Gannon 0 (Aug. 27, Krenzler Field) Match 3: CSU 2, Kent State 2 (2ot) (Aug. 29, Krenzler Field) 2010 SEASON PREVIEW: The Vikings have started their seventh season of competition ready to continue the climb up the Horizon League standings. Despite an unhappy finish to the 2009 campaign, CSU had a strong showing during the spring season which has carried over to the fall, leading head coach Derrek Falor to once again raise his expectations for an upper division league finish. The strength of the Vikings will be on the back line where four veterans form the nucleus of the unit. Senior Jessica McCloy returns after sitting out all but two matches last year following knee surgery and she is joined by junior Marina Taylor, who started 26 matches during her first two seasons, and the duo of sophomore Valerie Stahl and freshman Frederike Dubeau. Stahl started all 18 matches a year ago while Dubeau has been impressive in early season action. Senior Allie Riczo and junior Natalie Daniels are back and leading the midfield unit while seniors Sylvia Olsby and Nicole Howard and junior Jessica Bound have filled the other two spots. Seniors Marley Greiner and Olsby, sophomores Jaime Avona and Nikki Bevilacqua and freshman Taylor Vidovic each see action at forward. Senior Kelly Zinkiewich, a three-year starter who holds the CSU record with 311 career saves, is the incumbent in goal with freshman Parisa Sadrnia competing for playing time as well. DANIELS EARNS POW HONOR: After scoring three goals last week, junior midfielder Natalie Daniels was named the Horizon League Co-Player of the Week. It marked just the third time in the program's history that a Viking received the award. Daniels has scored in every match this season, tallying twice in the win over Gannon and once against Kent State. She is second in the league in goals (4) and first in points per game (2.67). . . . AND DANIELS MAKES MOVE UP SCORING CHARTS: With four goals this season, Natalie Daniels has moved within range of a pair of scoring records. Her 11 goals and 30 points in her career rank her second on the CSU charts, trailing only the record 12 goals by both Shayna Back and Jennifer Wieand and Wieand's career scoring total of 34 points. With four goals this year, Daniels is fourth on the single season scoring list, four away from Wieand's record of eight goals set in 2007. ZINKIEWICH MOVES INTO SEVENTH: A 10 save effort against Kent State allowed senior goalkeeper Kelly Zinkiewich to move past Youngstown State's Caitlin Bozioney (308 saves) and into seventh place on the Horizon League career saves list with 311 career saves. Zinkiewich, who owns the school career marks for saves and shutouts (9), is 37 saves shy of passing sixth place Kelcey Ervick (1991-93) of Xavier (347). THE GOAL-SCORING GRANDMA: Jessica McCloy, who received a waiver for a rare sixth season of eligibility, has been nicknamed "Grandma" by her much-younger teammates. She has bounced back from her second major knee surgery to score what proved to be the game-winning goals in each of CSU's wins this year, leading the league in that stat category. A GOOD DEFENSE. . . : After going scoreless in two preseason matches, the Vikings have exploded for eight goals in the first three games to rank second in the Horizon League averaging 2.67 goals a match. That is a far cry from a year ago when CSU scored just four times in the first eight contests en route to a 12-goal season. The Vikings have already posted two three-goal efforts, tying for the third-highest single game total in CSU history. A SEASON OF FIRSTS: Despite the fact that CSU entered the year with six seasons of collegiate play totalling 116 matches, the early part of the 2010 campaign has already seen a couple of program firsts. In the win over Kent State, CSU's took a 1-0 lead in the opening minutes when a Kent defender deflected a corner kick into the goal, giving the Vikings the first "Own Goal" ever. In the opener vs. Marshall, Kelly Zinkiewich stopped a penalty kick, the first for a Viking since the inaugural season in 2004. It snapped a streak of 14 consecutive penalty kicks made. NEXT UP: The Vikings take to the road for the first time this fall, playing at Ohio State at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 8 before returning home to host Ohio on Friday, Sept. 10 at 7:00 p.m. at Krenzler Field.
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