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LANCASTER, PA - The Franklin & Marshall College men's & women's soccer and volleyball teams have secured playoff berths in the upcoming Centennial Conference playoffs. In men's soccer, the berth marks the first in the 10-year history of the Centennial Conference. The team earned the post-season championship opportunity on Saturday as Steve Schneider (Jr., Elverson, PA/ Twin Valley) used a Forrest Watson (Jr., Columbia, MD/Wilde Lake) pass to score the game winning goal with a minute left in double overtime to give the Diplomats a 2-1 victory at #3 nationally ranked Gettysburg College. Trailing 1-0, F&M tied the game at the 85:57 mark when Wallace Eisenhauer (So., New Castle, PA/ Wilmington Christian) found Gerald Stoltzfoos (Jr., Willow Street, PA/ Lancaster Mennonite) in front of the net for a 1-1 tie.
The victory improves F&M to 7-8 overall, 6-1 in the Centennial
Conference as the Diplomats will face back-to-back playoff
contenders to conclude the regular season. On October 30,
F&M will host Muhlenberg at 2:30 p.m. before facing Johns
Hopkins University on November 2 at Baker Campus.
If the Diplomats pick up wins in both contests, F&M will host the Centennial Conference Playoffs on November 9 at Baker Campus. Statistically, Schneider leads the team in scoring with four goals for eight points, while goaltender Chris Milano (Sr., Fairfield, NJ/West Essex) holds a 1.32 goals against and .780 save percentage. The women's soccer team is experiencing a record breaking season as the Diplomats have jumped out to a 13-1-1 record, 7-0-1 in Centennial Conference play to clinch a spot in the four team playoffs. To date, midfielder Heather Rice (Sr., Pittsburgh, PA/Fox Chapel) leads the team in scoring with eight goals and eight assists for 22 points. A member of the Israel National Soccer Team, Rice is the career assists record holder in both Centennial Conference and Franklin & Marshall College women's soccer history as she has recorded 33 to date. The women's soccer team will conclude the regular season in a pair of road night games. On November 2, F&M will travel to Baltimore, Maryland to play Johns Hopkins (11-5-1, 6-2 CC) before finishing the regular season on November 4 at Muhlenberg College (10-6, 7-1 CC). If the Diplomats pick up wins in both contests, F&M will host the Centennial Conference Playoffs on November 9 at Baker Campus. In volleyball, the Diplomats (24-6, 9-0 CC) control also control their own destiny as F&M will travel to Gettysburg College (18-12, 6-1 CC) on October 30 in a match which will decide home court advantage for the CC Playoffs scheduled for November 9.
For F&M, Kristen Kowalski (Sr., York, PA/Central York) leads
the team in kills with 365, while Rose Hartmann (Sr., Warminster,
PA/William Tennent) ranks first in service aces (77) and blocks
(64).
More information on the upcoming Centennial Conference playoffs is available online at www.centennial.org, the official website of the Centennial Conference.
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