This Week in PAC Women's Soccer

August 28 - Sept. 3

9/4/2023 4:05:00 PM

Offensive Honors / Defensive, Goalkeeper Honors / Newcomer Honors / Records & Milestones

Week 1 PAC Honors (for events between August 28 - Sept. 3)
The weekly award winners have been recognized for their performances during Week 1 of the 2023 season.
 
PAC Offensive Player of the Week
Skylar Bibbee • Washington & Jefferson • Junior midfielder • Fairfax, Va./Chantilly
Bibbee helped guide the Presidents to a 2-0 start for the first time since 2016 after she netted the game-winning goal in each of W&J's two victories last week ... Bibbee, a first-year collegiate soccer player, scored the lone goal Friday in a 1-0 win at Muskingum ... She also scored the eventual game-winner in a 3-1 win at La Roche Sunday.
PAC Offensive Honor Roll
Chatham sophomore forward/midfielder Ainsley Smith (Cecil, Pa./Bishop Canevin); Franciscan graduate student midfielder Bella Rubino (Ashburn, Va./Stone Bridge); Grove City junior midfielder Emma Herrmann (Hilton, N.Y./Paul V. Moore); Saint Vincent senior forward Tanisha Grewal (Grantville, Pa./Eastern Lebanon); Thiel sophomore midfielder Jenna Murrey (Cambridge, Ohio/Cambridge); Westminster junior forward Brooke Horvath (Murrysville, Pa./Franklin Regional)
 
PAC Defensive Player, Goalkeeper of the Week
Sophia Galietta • Westminster • Junior defender • Bethel Park, Pa./Bethel Park
Galietta spearheaded a Westminster defense that conceded just one goal on a combined seven shots on goal in two weekend wins … The Titans allowed only three shots on net and five total in a 2-0 shutout victory at Juniata Friday ... Although Lycoming managed a first-half goal in Saturday's match, Galietta and the Westminster defense locked the Warriors down the rest of the day, not allowing a shot on goal in the final 61 minutes in a 3-1 Titan triumph.
PAC Defensive, Goalkeeper Honor Roll
Allegheny senior goalkeeper Kari May (Erie, Pa./McDowell); Grove City junior goalkeeper Courtney Lisman (Mars, Pa./Mars); Saint Vincent junior goalkeeper Madison Arnold (Warwick, Md./Bohernia Manor); Thiel senior goalkeeper Samantha Hoffman (Annapolis, Md./Broadneck); W&J senior goalkeeper Abby Hipkins (Canonsburg, Pa./Canon-McMillan); Waynesburg graduate student defender Courtney Grove (Frederick, Md./Frederick)
 
PAC Newcomer of the Week
Julz Mohrbacher • Waynesburg • Freshman midfielder/forward • Freedom, Pa./Freedom
Mohrbacher scored three of her team's four goals during a pair of games this past week ... She tallied her first collegiate goal during Waynesburg's 3-1 loss to Mount Union on Friday ... Morhbacher then led her team to a 4-1 victory at Mount Aloysius on Sunday by logging two goals and an assist against the Mounties ... The first-year Yellow Jacket currently leads the PAC in goals (three) and points (seven).
PAC Newcomer Honor Roll
Chatham freshman forward/midfielder Grace Gent (Springdale, Pa./Springdale); Geneva junior midfielder Olivia Anson (Elizabethtown, Pa./Elizabethtown); Grove City sophomore midfielder Maddie Sheek (Naples, Fla./Gulf Coast); Westminster freshman forward Chloe LaRosa (Tyrone, Pa./Tyrone)
 
Records & Milestones
Franciscan graduate student midfielder Bella Rubino scored two goals in the victory over Pitt-Greensburg to give her 21 career goals and move into fifth place all-time in school history ... Westminster's win over Juniata Friday marked the program's seventh-straight victory in its season opener.