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Morrison
Named ASC Preseason Defensive Player of the Year;
Mountaineers Picked 5th in Preseason Poll
(8/22/06)
SU sophomore goalkeeper Nick
Morrison was named the American Southwest
Conference (ASC) preseason Defensive
Player-of-the-Year in a vote of conference
coaches and SIDs. The award comes after a
rookie season in which Morrison set an SU
single-season record with seven shutouts and
posted a 1.03 goals-against average. He
was also named ASC Defensive Player-of-the-Week
for September 19-25 when he recorded two
shutouts and 8 total saves in match road wins
over Hardin-Simmons and McMurry.
The
seven shutouts also has already placed Morrison
in a tie for first place for total career
shutouts at SU.
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In
the team poll, the Mountaineers were picked to
finish fifth this season, which is the same spot
where SU ended up last season. Last year,
Schreiner led the ASC through a good part of the
season, but tough losses in the final two
weekends saw the Mountaineers finish one
game out of the top spot. Still, it was a
second straight highly-successful year for SU
Men's Soccer and head coach Paul Hayes.
The Mountaineers broke nearly every team
defensive record and set a new standard for
season winning percentage as Schreiner qualified
for its second straight post-season tournament
bid. In the tournament, SU won it's
first-ever post-season tournament match but fell
in the second round to the top seed and
tournament host. Hayes was named ASC
Coach-of-the-Year for his efforts. |
