LU SOCCER SWEEPS WEEKLY SLC AWARDS
Published 12:34 am Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Lamar sports information
BEAUMONT — The Lamar women’s soccer team made a clean sweep of Southland Conference awards in the first week of the 2017 season after opening the campaign with a pair of impressive wins.
Junior forward Kelso Peskin was named the conference’s Offensive Player of the Week, junior midfielder Juliana Ocampo was named Defensive Player of the Week, while senior Lauren Lovejoy was tabbed as the SLC’s Goalkeeper of the Week.
Peskin had a goal and four assists over two games as the Cardinals defeated Southern 6-0 on Friday before defeating Louisiana by a 3-1 score on Sunday. Ocampo had a goal and two assists over the weekend, while Lovejoy posted a 0.50 goals-against average with one shutout and a save percentage of .857.
It marks the third time in program history and the first time since 2011 that the Cardinals swept the weekly awards. It was the second weekly honor for Lovejoy, who was honored in 2015. It’s the first time Ocampo and Peskin have been honored by the Southland Conference.
The Cardinals, who won their first two games of the season for the first time in the 11-year history of the program, return to action with a pair of non-conference games this weekend. LU hosts Southern Miss at 7 p.m. Friday before traveling to Baton Rouge to take on LSU at 6 p.m. Sunday.
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I.C. Murrell was promoted to editor of The News, effective Oct. 14, 2019. He previously served as sports editor since August 2015 and has won or shared eight first-place awards from state newspaper associations and corporations. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, grew up mostly in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and graduated from the University of Arkansas at Monticello.
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