PSAC Tournament home page (Friday semifinals, Sunday championship game)EAST STROUDSBURG - Senior forward
Ally Roth, junior midfielder
Desiraye Mack and junior back
Emily Howell were all named to the first team, leading six players from East Stroudsburg University on the All-PSAC field hockey team, released Thursday.
ESU (15-3), the No. 1 seed and host for this weekend's PSAC semifinals and championship game, is also represented by senior midfielder
Rebecca Snyder on the second team, and senior back
Amanda Wnorowski and junior back
Morgan Firestine on the third team.
Roth is the fourth ESU player to earn three first team All-PSAC honors and the first in 17 years. She joins forward Karen Moliver (1986-88), midfielder Stacie Fritz (1995-97) and back Juel Adams (1996-98) as three-time first team All-PSAC selections.
Mack was named to the third team as a sophomore and moves to the first team as a junior. Wnorowski was on the second team last year and is on the third team as a senior. Howell, Snyder and Firestine were all recognized for the first time.
ESU hosts No. 5 seed West Chester (16-3) in the PSAC semifinals on Friday at 1:30 p.m. at Whitenight Field. No. 2 seed Millersville (17-1) takes on No. 6 seed Bloomsburg (10-9) in the first semifinal at 11 a.m. The PSAC championship game will be played Sunday at 1 p.m.
In all, 24 of the 39 All-PSAC selections, including 10 of the 14 on the first team, will be competing on Friday.
Roth (Scotrun, Pa./Pocono Mountain East) enters the PSAC semifinals ranked third in the conference in goals (19) and points (40) and leads all active PSAC players in career goals (72) and points (168), holding school records in both categories. The 2014 PSAC Offensive Athlete of the Year and a two-time NFHCA All-America first team selection, Roth has seven multi-goal games this season, including five vs. PSAC schools. She had 14 goals in the Warriors' 10 conference games.
Mack (Waymart, Pa./Honesdale) ranks second on the Warriors with 10 goals and two assists for 22 points as a central midfielder. She had two goals in a 3-0 win at Bloomsburg and a goal and an assist, including the game-winner in overtime, in a 2-1 win vs. Mercyhurst. She has started all 57 games in her three seasons at ESU.
Howell (Bangor, Pa./Bangor) has started all 18 games at left back, her first season as a full-time starter. She has four goals and three assists, along with playing a key role on the No. 2-ranked scoring defense (0.77 gaa) in NCAA Division II.
Snyder (Whitehall, Pa./Whitehall) has four goals and eight assists in her first season as a starter and is ESU's primary inserter on penalty corners. She scored the game's only goal in ESU's 1-0 win vs. Millersville on October 13, which proved to be the tiebreaker that gave the Warriors the PSAC's No. 1 seed and hosting rights for the PSAC semifinals and championship.
Wnorowski (Clark, N.J./Arthur L. Johnson) is a three-year starter, appearing in the lineup in 59 games in her career for the Warriors. She was ESU's co-team MVP with Roth last year and has been a starter on three PSAC Tournament teams.
Firestine (Bernville, Pa./Tulpehocken) earns all-conference honors in her first season as a full-time starter. She has made 28 career starts on ESU's back line, including all 18 games at right back in 2015.
Millersville, which shared the PSAC regular season title with ESU, led the conference with nine All-PSAC selections - three on the first team, one on the second team and five on the third team. ESU and West Chester have six each, followed by Kutztown and Shippensburg with five.
Kutztown's Anna Behm, the PSAC's leading scorer (22 goals, 9 assists), is the PSAC Offensive Athlete of the Year. West Chester's Kristina Scherrer is the Defensive Athlete of the Year, Millersville forward Aliza Mizak is the Freshman of the Year and Kutztown's Marci Scheuing is the Coach of the Year.
ESU is seeking its first PSAC championship in program history this weekend. The Warriors have played in the conference championship game twice, finishing as runner-up in 2001 and 2010. They are in the conference tournament for the third straight year.
The Warriors won a share of their second PSAC regular season title (also 2010) and have posted their fifth season with 15+ wins. They are two wins from the school record of 17, set in 1995 (17-4) and equaled in 2010 (17-6).
ESU is listed No. 2 in this week's NCAA Division II Atlantic Region rankings which set the field for the NCAA Tournament. The top three schools in both regions in DII in the final set of rankings on Monday, November 9 will advance to the NCAA Tournament.
All-PSAC 1st teamF - Anna Behm, Kutztown
F - Marnie Kusakavitch, West Chester
F - Aliza Mizak, Millersville
F - Megan McKay, Slippery Rock
F - Ally Roth, ESUM - Lauren Gerhart, Millersville
M - Desiraye Mack, ESUM - Dayle Paustian, West Chester
M - Alexis Versak, West Chester
B - Rayann Fink, Kutztown
B - Emily Howell, ESUB - Taylor Parker, Millersville
B - Kristin Scherrer, West Chester
GK - Kayla Denlinger, Kutztown
PSAC Offensive Athlete of the Year - Anna Behm, Kutztown
PSAC Defensive Athlete of the Year - Kristina Scherrer, West Chester
PSAC Freshman of the Year - Aliza Mizak, Millersville
PSAC Coach of the Year - Marci Scheuing, Kutztown
All-PSAC 2nd teamF - Emily Barnard, Shippensburg
F - Jessica Brandon, Mercyhurst
F - Rachal Toppi, West Chester
M - Emily Burns, Mercyhurst
M - Kylie Huffman, Shippensburg
M - Rebecca Snyder, ESUM - Courtney Ueberroth, Kutztown
B - Kayla Bixler, Millersville
B - Taylor Fisher, Shippensburg
B - Andrea Goldbach, Mercyhurst
B - Ari Saytar, Shippensburg
GK - Lindsay Cassel, Bloomsburg
All-PSAC 3rd teamF - Kathleen Bishop, Millersville
F - Katelyn Grazan, Shippensburg
F - Olivia Hershey, Millersville
F - Sam Peters, Bloomsburg
M - Courtney Konowal, Kutztown
M - Katelyn Smith, Mercyhurst
M - Robyn Spatichia, Millersvile
M - Margaret Thorwart, Millersville
B - Nikki Bennett, West Chester
B - Alexis Carroll, Bloomsburg
B - Morgan Firestine, ESU
B - Amanda Wnorowski, ESUGK - Samantha Rumler, Millersville
