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Saint Francis (PA) Nets Three Major NEC Awards; Monmouth's Pieczynski a Double Winner

11/1/2012

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Lawrenceville, NJ - Saint Francis (PA) is in the midst of its best season ever, and it only became better at the annual NEC field hockey pre-championship awards banquet at Rider on Thursday night.  Red Flash claimed three of the conference’s six major individual honors and placed four student-athletes amongst the All-NEC First and Second Teams.

In terms of individuals, Monmouth’s Michelle Pieczynski (Doylestown, PA/Central Bucks West) was the big winner.  The senior forward captured the NEC Player of the Year award along with the Offensive Player of the Year honor.

The NEC Defensive Player of the Year award went to Saint Francis (PA) sophomore Carissa Makea (Auckland, New Zealand).  Freshman Selena Adamshick (Harveys Lake, PA/Lake-Lehman), who is another reason why the Red Flash allowed a league-low seven goals over seven NEC games, joined Makea on stage as the NEC Rookie of the Year. Saint Francis (PA) head coach Stacey Bean received some time in the spotlight as well as she captured the NEC Coach of the Year award.

Quinnipiac senior Nicole Lewis (East Amherst, NY/Williamsville North), the NEC’s leader in save percentage (.818) and shutouts (4), rounded out the list of major individual award winners as the NEC Goalkeeper of the Year.

Not in more than a decade had a Monmouth Hawk captured the NEC Player of the Year award. That streak has come to an end thanks to Pieczynski, who will graduate as Monmouth’s all-time program leader in goals, assists and points. On her way to becoming the second Hawk ever to attain the conference’s highest individual honor (Gina Chico did it in 2000), Pieczynski scored more goals (17) than any other NEC competitor. In fact, it was Pieczynski’s tallies that proved to be the difference in four of Monmouth’s five NEC victories as all four of the senior game-winning goals came against conference competition.  Her 38 points rank as the second-highest overall scoring total on the league leader board, while her 20 points over the course of the seven-game NEC schedule went unmatched.