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Panthers Host Vikings In Quarterfinals Saturday
Milwaukee starts 2007 league tourney with winner of first round game
2007 HORIZON LEAGUE TOURNAMENT
Cleveland State @ Milwaukee
Quarterfinals • Nov. 3 • 6 p.m.
Milwaukee, Wis. (Engelmann Field)
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MILWAUKEE, Wis. (Oct. 31, 2007) - The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee women's soccer team hosts Cleveland State Saturday in the quarterfinals of the 2007 Horizon League Tournament. Kick off is scheduled for 6 p.m. at Engelmann Field. If the Panthers win, they'll host the semifinals and championship matches Nov. 9-11.
Scouting Cleveland State
The Vikings advanced to the league quarterfinals on Tuesday, tying their game with Youngstown State with just 49 seconds remaining. Cleveland added the game-winner in the eighth minute of overtime. Jennifer Weiand leads CSU with a school-record eight goals and 19 points this season on her way to all-league second team honors. Last year's leading scorer Shayna Back is second on the team with six goals, four assists and 16 points. Kelly Zinkiewich has played just over 1,600 minutes in goal, logging a 2.41 goals against average and two shutouts.
Series History
The Panthers and Vikings have met in the league quarterfinals in each of CSU's four years of existence. UWM has dominated the series, winning the first seven meetings in the series by a combined 31-2. Milwaukee won the regular season meeting Oct. 19, 6-0, at Engelmann Field. Last year's quarterfinal contest was a 4-1 Panther win, also at Engelmann.
Last Week
#2 Texas A&M 6, Milwaukee 1 - Elisabeth Jones scored three goals, all in the second half, to lead No. 2 Texas A&M to a 6-1 win over Milwaukee last Friday night. Senior Pam Shipway tallied a point for the fourth-straight game with the team's lone goal.
Notes From The Week That Was
• Texas A&M handed the Panthers their worst loss since the 1995 season-opener vs. No. 1 North Carolina (7-0). That was also the last time UWM allowed six goals in a game.
• Elisabeth Jones is just the sixth opponent to ever tally a hat trick against UWM and first since 1995.
• Sophomore Erin Kreuser picked up her team and league-best seventh assist of the season, eighth-most in a single season in school history.
Horizon League Tournament
Milwaukee clinched the top seed in the league tournament and, with it, hosting rights for the tourney. The Panthers host a quarterfinal game Saturday against Cleveland State. If UWM advances to the semifinals, it would host the semis Nov. 9 and the league title game Nov. 11. Game times will be announced when the semifinals are set.
Panthers In The League Tourney
Milwaukee has won a league-best four league tournament titles, last doing so in 2005. Overall, UWM is 16-7-5 in league tournament play, posting a 7-0-1 all-time record in the quarterfinals and advancing to the championship game eight times, another league record. While UWM fell in the semifinals last season, it has never missed the league championship game in back-to-back years. Also, the Panthers will be playing just their fifth home tournament game.
Horizon League Champions
With the Panthers' 2-0 win over Wright State Oct. 21, they clinched their eighth-straight Horizon League regular season championship and the ninth in team history. They did so with an unbeaten record (7-0-1) for the seventh time in the last eight seasons and the ninth time overall.
Leading The League
Since 2000, UWM has been untouchable in league play, posting a 48-1-3 league mark in that time and won its eighth-straight league title this season. The streak is currently the second-longest in the country, trailing only Penn State's streak of nine-straight Big Ten crowns.
All-League
Four Panthers were named to the All-Horizon League First Team and two more were named to the all-newcomer team when the league's awards were announced. Senior Amanda Winn, juniors Erin Kane and Sarah Teegarden and sophomore Kate Megna were the team's first-team representatives. Meanwhile, freshmen Heather Roadhouse and Nicole Sperl were picked for the newcomer team.
Three In A Row... Go For One More
Erin Kane and Sarah Teegarden are in a familiar position as they were each named to the all-league first team for the third-straight season. They are the fifth and sixth Panthers to earn first-team honors three times in their career. Kane is also the first goalkeeper with three first-team awards, while the pair could be the first UWM players ever with four first-team awards in their careers next season.
Moynihan's Mantle
Head coach Michael Moynihan collected hist fifth career Horizon League Coach of the Year award when the league announced its post-season awards this week. He earned the honor in hist first season in 1997 and again in back-to-back years in 2000 and 2001. He had last earned the award in 2004.
These Go To Eleven (One Louder)
As has become tradition in Milwaukee, the Panthers have gone on an extended unbeaten streak towards the end of the regular season. When UWM lost at Texas A&M, it was its first loss since Sept. 16, posting an 8-0-3 record since. At 11 games, the streak was the third-longest in school history, trailing only a pair of 13-game unbeaten streaks from the 2005 and 2006 seasons that share the school record. As you may have guessed, this is the third-straight season Milwaukee went unbeaten for at least 11-straight games.
Whole Lotta Goals
While at times this season goals have been at a premium, UWM had little trouble scoring Oct. 19 vs. Cleveland State. The team busted out for a season-high six goals against the Vikings. It was the most goals Milwaukee had scored in a game since Nov. 3, 2005, when it beat the Vikings 8-0 in the league tournament. That game was also the last time six different Panthers scored goals, as was the case Oct. 19. UWM also took 42 shots, its most since Nov. 2, 1997.
Surprise, Kane Has Another Record
Erin Kane has been quite thorough in her attempt to break every school record the program has. In fact, she recorded her 36th career win Oct. 21 to tie the school record for career wins. Plus, in the second minute, she surpassed the record for career minutes by a goalkeeper. As just a junior, Kane already holds career records for minutes (5532:41), GAA (0.586), shutouts (35), is tied for wins and has been hovering around the record for save percentage. Also, her GAA has been as high as sixth in NCAA Division I history, while she will not officially join the all-time list until she graduates. The only record that would be a reach for her is saves, where she sits fifth with 168.
I Like To Score
Pam Shipway tallied a point in her fourth-straight game at Texas A&M. Over that time, she has scored three goals and tallied an assist. Her streak got off to an auspicious start with game-winners in back-to-back games against Loyola and Cleveland State (Oct. 16-19). She was the eighth Panther with consecutive game-winners and could make her streak the fifth-longest in school history with a point Saturday. The school record is eight-straight games with a point.
League Run
By finishing the league season a near-perfect 7-0-1, UWM pushed its league-record unbeaten streak in league games to 30 (28-0-2). The streak surpassed the league record late last season. That record also belonged to Milwaukee, a 21-game (20-0-1) stretch that immediately preceded the current streak. Since 2000, the Panthers are 48-1-3 in league play.
Octoberfest
The end of October did not go as the Panthers had planned, but it doesn't take away from what they have been able to accomplish in the month. With a 7-1-1 record this season in the month of October, Milwaukee has pushed its record in the month to 47-9-6 (.806) since 2000. Most impressive is that the mark includes a streak of 24-straight October matches without a loss (22-0-2) the team carried until last weekend. Milwaukee had not lost a game in the 10th month of the year since a 2-0 loss to Wisconsin Oct. 21, 2004.
Home, Sweet Home
Engelmann Field is a tough place to play if you're not the Panthers. Milwaukee is 110-51-15 (.668) all-time at Engelmann. Over the last two-plus years, the team is 19-1-5 at home, including a 7-1 mark last season. UWM had a 17-game home unbeaten streak (14-0-3) snapped in the league semifinals last season, but is unbeaten in its last 28 regular season league home matches (27-0-1).
Everybody's Player Of The Week
Senior Pam Shipway earned a pair of honors Oct. 24 after her performance Sept. 16-21. Shipway scored the game-winners against both Loyola and Cleveland State and added an assists vs. Wright State. Monday she was named the Horizon League Player of the Week. A day later, she was named to the Soccer America National Team of the Week. Shipway is the second Panther this season to earn a weekly league and national honor. Erin Kane earned her school-record sixth career Player of the Week award Sept. 24 and was named to Soccer Buzz's weekly national team. Kane was the fifth Panther ever selected to Soccer Buzz's team, while Shipway is just the third to earn a spot on Soccer America's.
Bring On Extra Time
Milwaukee's three ties in its last six games have extended an impressive streak of 21-straight overtime games without a loss. UWM is 9-0-12 in that time and has not yielded an overtime goal since Sept. 12, 2004, to DePaul.
Overtime Trooper
If playing extra time bothers junior goalkeeper Erin Kane, she surely isn't showing it. She has been in goal for 17 games that have gone into overtime and is yet to give up a golden goal. Her 16 shutouts that have stretched into overtime represent almost half of her school and league-record 33 career shutouts. Currently, she has played 264:56 of overtime without allowing a goal.
Keeping It To A Minimum
Last Friday in Texas, the Panthers conceded more than one goal in a game for the first time this season. In fact, Milwaukee had not allowed multiple goals in one game since Oct. 4, 2006, against Green Bay, a span of 27 matches. The fewest multi-goal games UWM has allowed in a season is three, done in 2001, 2005 and 2006.
State Champs
Milwaukee topped Green Bay, 4-0, Oct. 3 to complete the Wisconsin circuit with an unbeaten 2-0-1 record. What that means is UWM went unbeaten against the state's Division I schools for the second straight season after a perfect 3-0 record last season. The Panthers previously beat Wisconsin (1-0) and tied Marquette (0-0). In years where all four schools have played each other, UWM's sweep last season was just the fifth ever. Both Wisconsin (2003 and 2004) and Marquette (2000 and 2001) have done it twice.
2006 Revisited
The Panthers are coming off the most successful season in school history. They posted a 16-4-2 record, won a seventh-straight league title and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the second-straight season. UWM set school records for wins, winning percentage (.773), goals against average (0.44) and shutouts (16). It's shutout percentage of .727 was third in the nation, GAA was fourth and winning percentage 12th.
More Notes
• When the Panthers shut out Valparaiso Oct. 12, it was the 150th shutout in school history.
• The Panthers' Sept. 23 match with Marquette drew a school-record crowd of 867. The previous best was 625 set Sept. 2, 2001, vs. Oakland.
• Erin Kreuser's game-winning goal at Wisconsin Sept. 21 was the 800th goal in team history.
• UWM posted a perfect 2-0 record at the Milwaukee Cup for the second-straight year, but won its first cup title in the eight-year history of the tourney.
• Sophomore Erin Kreuser was named the Offensive MVP of the Milwaukee Cup and was joined by senior Amanda Winn, junior Sarah Teegarden and freshman Heather Roadhouse on the all-tournament team.
• Freshman Sarah Talbert tallied a goal in the season-opener vs. Indiana State to become the second freshman in school history to score in a season-opener.
• Sophomore Louise Vraney, the first to do so, scored as well and is now the school's all-time leading goal-scorer on opening day with three.
Megna's Memoirs
Sophomore Kate Megna is providing her take on the 2007 season as it goes on, via an online blog at uwmpanthers.com. At the start of every week, Megna looks back on the weekend of action and shares the inside story of the Milwaukee women's soccer team. Visit uwmpanthers.com for the latest installment, which is posted on Monday afternoons.
Next Up
UWM is playing for a spot in the semifinals Nov. 9 and title game Nov. 11.
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