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MAKING HER MARK
GA grad Pluck has goal, assist as Duke women’s soccer stays undefeated
Mackenzie Pluck (North Wales/ Germantown Academy) had a goal and an assist as the Duke women’s soccer team scored four times in the first half in beating East Carolina 5-0 last Thursday.
Pluck tallied the game’s opening goal at 4:57 then picked up the assist as the Blue Devils took a 2-0 lead at 7:18.
Pluck is second on Duke — which has won its first six games — in goals (4), assists (2) and points (10).
• Delaware football’s Liam Trainer (Glenside/La Salle) had his first career interception to along with five tackles — three solo, two assists with one tackle for loss — while Justis Henley (Philadelphia/North Penn) made four tackles (all solo) as the Blue Hens beat St. Francis (Pa.) 27-10 last Saturday to improve to 2-0.
• MK Stefanowicz (Lansdale/ Mount St. Joseph) scored twice for the Bucknell field’s hockey team in its 2-0 victory over Lock Haven Sunday.
Both of Stefanowicz’s goals came on penalty corners — she gave the Bison a 1-0 lead in the second quarter at 18:02 then doubled the advantage in the fourth, finding the back of the cage at 42:04.
Stefanowicz also had an assist in
second quarter at 18:02 then doubled the advantage in the fourth, finding the back of the cage at 42:04.
Stefanowicz also had an assist in Bucknell’s 2-1 win over Temple Sept. 5, earning the helper on the secondquarter goal that tied the game 1-1 at 15:24.
• Ursinus football’s Octavious Carter (Souderton/La Salle) had eight receptions for 77 yards while Billy Cook (Southampton/Archbishop Wood) had three catches for 24 yards and a touchdown — hauling in a two-yard TD pass at 8:51 the second quarter — as the Bears lost to Johns Hopkins 49-21 last Saturday.
For UC’s defense, Brett Gross (Langhorne/Archbishop Wood) had an interception and six tackles (four assisted, two solo with one tackle for loss) while Ryan DiVergilis (Philadelphia/Archbishop Wood) made five tackles (two solo, three assisted). Tristan Hulme (Doylestown/ Central Bucks West) added three tackles, one solo and two assisted.
• Drexel women’s soccer’s Melissa Lyon (Perkasie/Pennridge) and Kailey Horton (Meadowbrook/Abington) both scored in the first half as the Dragons extended their unbeaten streak to five with a 3-1 win over UMass Lowell Sunday.
Lyon converted a free kick to tie the contest 1-1 at 23:51 with Horan put Drexel ahead for good with her goal at 38:51.
• Ally Clark (Jamison/Germantown Academy) scored the Columbia women’s soccer team’s first goal, finding the back of the net at 7:16 as the Lions claimed a 3-0 victory over Farleigh Dickinson Sunday.
• Delaware Valley football’s Tahmir Barksdale (Philadelphia/Archbishop Wood) returned a punt 51 yards for a touchdown at 10:24 in the fourth quarter as the Aggies topped Montclair State 26-2 last Saturday.
Barksdale also had two catches for 11 yards and two rushes for six yards. Julian White (Philadelphia/North Penn) finished with one reception for 10 yards and three rushes for 14 yards.
Defensively for Delaware Valley, Yusuf Aladinov (Huntingdon Valley/William Tennent) had seven tackles — two solo, five assisted — and 1.5 sacks. Dontae Mason (Philadelphia/Bishop McDevitt) had four tackles (one solo, three assisted) while Cole Kitchen (Hatboro/Upper Moreland) recorded three tackles (two solo, one assisted).
• Vanderbilt women’s soccer’s Maddie Elwell (Ambler/ Wissahickon) scored three minutes into last Friday’s 2-0 victory over Lipscomb and also collected an assist Sunday as the Commodores lost to Middle Tennessee 2-1.
• Jamie Mayer (Huntingdon Valley/Lower Moreland) dished out two assists - one in the second, another in the third - as the Ursinus field hockey team rolled past Wilkes 8-0 last Wednesday. Mayer assisted on the Bears’ second goal at 19:23 then had the helper on the squads’ eighth tally at 37:27.
• West Chester football’s Jackson Taylor (Glenside/ Abington) had five tackles — 0.5 tackles for loss, one solo and four assisted — in the Golden Rams’ 56-10 win over Mercyhurst last Saturday.
Shamar Edwards (North Wales/North Penn) and Nick Chapman (Hatboro/HatboroHorsham) both had two tackles — each recording a solo and an assisted tackle — for WCU.
• Caroline Sweeney (Lower Gwynedd/Gwynedd Mercy) capped the Northeastern field hockey team’s 4-0 win over Holy Cross last Friday with a fourth-quarter goal, deflecting in a shot on a penalty corner at 52:06 as the Huskies earned their first victory of the season.
• East Stroudsburg football quarterback Matt DeLaurentis (East Norriton/Pope John Paul II) was 7-of-15 passing for 75 yards and a touchdown — a 9-yard completion at 10:19 in the fourth quarter — as the Warriors lost 22-7 to Slippery Rock last Saturday.
ESU’s Ryan Hieber (Doylestown/Central Bucks West) recorded half a sack and finished with two tackles (one solo, one assisted).
• Gwynedd Mercy men’s soccer Shaine Kirby (Newtown/Archbishop Wood) scored his first career goal, finding the back of net at 44:12 in last Saturday’s 5-1 loss to Delaware Valley.