Bucknell University Athletics
Four Bucknell Field Hockey Players Receive All-League Recognition
11/4/2008 7:00:00 AM | Field Hockey
Nov. 4, 2008
LEWISBURG, Pa. - The Bucknell field hockey team has reached 10 wins for just the fifth time in program history, and four of its players were recognized by the Patriot League for their contributions to the team's success. Seniors Trina Boyer (Macungie, Pa./Upper Perkiomen) and Amanda Faust (Kingston, Pa./Wyoming Valley West) were announced as First Team All-Patriot League selections on Tuesday, Nov. 4, while sophomores Morgan Kauffman (Millersville, Pa./Penn Manor) and Corinne Raczek (Ocean Township, N.J./Ocean Township) were named to the All-Patriot League second team.
Faust, a co-captain of the Bison, is now a four-time All-Patriot League selection, and this is the third straight year that she has been on the first team. She is just the second field hockey player in Bucknell history to receive four all-conference sections, joining recent Bucknell Athletics Hall of Fame inductee Almira Baldwin Arnold, who was a First Team All-Patriot League honoree from 1990-1993. Faust is also a two-time First Team Longstreth/NFHCA Division I All-Mideast selection, and this year was named a 2008 NFHCA All-Star. This past summer, Faust was selected by the Pennsylvania High Performance Training Center to represent the state on its High Performance Squad.
An accounting major, Faust ranks third in the Patriot League this season in scoring (28 points), and in the top-five in goals (nine) and assists (10), setting or tying personal career highs in all three categories. Her 28 points are the seventh best single-season total in Bucknell history. Faust is the first player in Bison history to have at least 10 assists in more than one season, tallying 10 in both 2006 and this year. She is the program's all-time leader in assists with 34, ranks sixth in Bucknell history in goals (27) and her 88 career points places her third. The Bison have a 9-1 record this season in games when Faust registers at least one point. The one loss came against then-No. 10 Penn State. Faust has been named both offensive and defensive player of the week by the league this season, and has accumulated five weekly awards from the conference over her career. Faust was the Patriot League Co-Rookie of the Year in 2005.
Boyer, a two-time All-Patriot League Academic Honor Roll and NFHCA All-Academic Squad selection, has set new career highs this season in games started (17), shots (26), points (19), goals (eight) and assists (three). A first time all-conference selection, she is top-10 in the conference this season in both points and goals. Bucknell has a 5-0 record in games when Boyer scores a goal this season, and a 10-2 mark over the past two years. Boyer's 15 goals over the past two seasons are the most of any Bison player, and she leads the team and ranks third in the conference with four game-winning goals this season.
Two of those game-winning goals came in back-to-back multi-goal games for Boyer. She registered a hat trick, marking only the fifth time in the last 10 seasons that a Bucknell player has scored at least three goals in a game, in the Orange and Blue's 3-1 win over Georgetown on Oct. 19. Boyer than scored two goals in the last five minutes of Bucknell's 4-3 victory against Colgate on Oct. 25, including the game-winner with 77 seconds remaining in regulation. Boyer was named Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week, following that performance. Boyer also had a two-goal game against the Raiders in 2006, giving her three multi-goal games in her career. With 20 career goals, Boyer is two shy of moving into sole possession of 11th place in program history.
Kauffman, a major in biology, is a first-time all-league selection. She ranked second on the team in points (23) and assists (13), placing fifth and second in the conference, respectively. Kauffman received honorable mention status from the Patriot League twice this season in its weekly release. She tied a single-game Bucknell record with three assists in a win against Longwood, and her 13 assists are the second-highest single-season total in program history.
Kauffman had two two-goal games this season (against Ball State and Siena), and registered a career high five points with a two-goal, one assist game against Siena on Sept. 27. Kauffman missed one game this season, but over the course of six straight games that she appeared in, Kauffman recorded at least one assists, leading the Orange and Blue to a 5-1 record in that span. Overall, Bucknell has an 8-3 record in games when Kauffman registers a point this year.
Raczek appeared with Faust, and teammates Megan Krebs (Wilkes-Barre, Pa./GAR Memorial) and Steph Graf (Jamison, Pa./Central Bucks East), on the High Performance Squad, as selected by the Pennsylvania High Performance Training Center. The biology major leads the Patriot League and has set a new single-season Bucknell record with her 14 assists this season. She has five games this year with at least two assists, including a three-assist game in the Bison's 3-0 win over Saint Joseph's. That single-game total matched that of Kauffman and equaled the single-game program record.
Bucknell has a 7-1 mark in games when Raczek registers a point, with the only loss coming to Penn State. Raczek has attempted only one shot this season, but she made it count, scoring her first career goal in the Bison's 2-1 win against the Mountain Hawks of Lehigh. Raczek's 15 career assists in not quite two full years of collegiate field hockey, already place her sixth all-time in Bucknell history.
The Bison (10-7, 2-3 PL) are preparing to square off against the Lafayette Leopards on Friday, Nov. 7, in the semifinals of the Patriot League Tournament. The Leopards (12-6, 4-1 PL) defeated the Bison, 2-1, in double overtime on Oct. 4, in Easton, Pa. The game will be played in Washington, D.C., site of the tournament's No. 1 seed, American. The contest is scheduled to start at 1:30 p.m.
