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S-48-04-05
Wednesday, November 3, 2004

Four Elizabethtown College Women's Soccer Players Named to All-Commonwealth Conference Teams

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. --- Four members of the Elizabethtown College women's soccer team have earned spots on the All-Commonwealth Conference teams for the 2004 season. Named to the All-Commonwealth First Team were three Blue Jays: senior midfielder Mary Weidman (Palmyra, PA/Hershey), senior midfielder Courtney Phillips (Mechanicsburg, PA/Mechanicsburg) and sophomore defender Dana Moyer (Harleysville, PA/North Penn). Also, senior goaltender Amy Weid (Turnersville, NJ/Pitman) was named to the All-Commonwealth Second Team.

Weidman has been named to the All-Commonwealth Conference First Team in her only year in a Blue Jay uniform. The senior transfer claimed a starting job as a midfielder this year and has played in 17 of Etown's 18 games thus far, and she has started 15 of them. She has scored one goal and tallied one assist for three points while playing as a strong defensively-oriented midfielder for Etown.

Phillips, who is no stranger to the all-conference squads, earned First Team recognition for the second time in her career and all-conference recognition for the fourth time this year. She was also a First Team All-Commonwealth player in 2002, and she was a member of the Second Team in 2001 and 2003. She was also an All-Mid-Atlantic Region Second Team member in 2002. This year, she is leading Etown in points with 10, having scored three goals and compiled four assists. In her career, she has totaled 18 goals and 22 assists for 58 points.

Moyer has earned a spot on the all-conference First Team for the first time this year after earning a spot on the All-Commonwealth Second Team as a first-year student in 2003. She took over as Elizabethtown's sweeper this year and has started all 18 of the Blue Jays' games thus far. She has scored three goals and notched one assist for seven points thus far this season, and has amassed eight points over the course of her career.

Weid has made the All-Commonwealth Second Team for the first time in her career after playing a pivotal role in Etown's drive to reclaim a spot in the conference playoffs during the final weeks of the season. She has started and played in nine of Etown's games this year – including the last five games in a row and, among them, the last four conference games. During that span of the last five games, she has allowed only three goals and made 34 saves. Over the last four conference games, one of which was a 0-0 double-overtime tie, she has allowed only two goals and made 31 saves for a .939 save percentage. For the entire season, Weid has an 0.75 goals against average, 58 saves, a save percentage of .892, and two complete game shutouts.

Elizabethtown placed third in the Commonwealth Conference regular season standings this year and as a result is now back in the conference playoffs following a one-year absence in 2003. The third-seeded Blue Jays face second-seeded Susquehanna University on the road tonight in a 7:00 p.m. semifinal game, the winner of which will advance to face the winner of tonight's Messiah-Albright game Saturday at the site of the highest remaining seed. Thus far this season, Etown is 9-7-2 overall.