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Harper Named MAC East Women’s Soccer Defensive Player of the Week
March 31 | Women's Soccer
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MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE WOMEN'S SOCCER PLAYERS OF THE WEEK RELEASE
CLEVELAND, Ohio – University of Akron women's soccer sophomore GK Libby Harper (Hatfield, England) was recognized by the Mid-American Conference as its East Division Women's Soccer Defensive Player of the Week, the league announced on Wednesday, March 31.
Harper was stout in goal for the Zips registering four saves, all in the second half, in a 1-0 victory over rival Kent State on Sunday, March 28.
In only her third start and appearance of the season, Harper garnered her second clean sheet of the year denying all four strikes on frame by the Golden Flashes in the affair, while making several other key defensive plays that didn't go down in the final statistics as saves.
On the year, she owns a 0.31 goals against average on the strength of 11 saves and a pair of shutouts.
Akron returns to competition this Sunday, April 4 as the Zips host Ohio in their regular season home finale at 4 p.m. at FirstEnergy Stadium.
MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE WOMEN'S SOCCER PLAYERS OF THE WEEK RELEASE
CLEVELAND, Ohio – University of Akron women's soccer sophomore GK Libby Harper (Hatfield, England) was recognized by the Mid-American Conference as its East Division Women's Soccer Defensive Player of the Week, the league announced on Wednesday, March 31.
Harper was stout in goal for the Zips registering four saves, all in the second half, in a 1-0 victory over rival Kent State on Sunday, March 28.
In only her third start and appearance of the season, Harper garnered her second clean sheet of the year denying all four strikes on frame by the Golden Flashes in the affair, while making several other key defensive plays that didn't go down in the final statistics as saves.
On the year, she owns a 0.31 goals against average on the strength of 11 saves and a pair of shutouts.
Akron returns to competition this Sunday, April 4 as the Zips host Ohio in their regular season home finale at 4 p.m. at FirstEnergy Stadium.
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