Herrity named SAC AstroTurf Player of the Week for second time
ROCK HILL, S.C. – For the second time this season, Carson-Newman junior forward Julianne Herrity (Donegal, Ireland) was named the South Atlantic Conference’s AstroTurf Player of the Week after scoring all three of the Eagles’ goals during the week in wins at Young Harris and at home against then ninth-ranked Wingate.
ROCK HILL, S.C. – For the second time this season, Carson-Newman junior forward Julianne Herrity (Donegal, Ireland) was named the South Atlantic Conference's AstroTurf Player of the Week after scoring all three of the Eagles' goals during the week in wins at Young Harris and at home against then ninth-ranked Wingate.
Herrity's been named the league's Player of the Week twice; the last player to garner multiple awards in one season was Morgan Gruenefelder in 2007.
"It means everything for me, but it's also great recognition for the team and all the hard work we've been putting in the past couple weeks," Herrity said of the award.
Herrity tallied both goals in the 2-1 double-overtime win over the Mountain Lions on Wednesday night. The junior's first goal took a long ball from the defensive-third and made a run into the box to beat the Young Harris goalkeeper to tie the contest in the 21st-minute. Herrity scored the game-winner in the 103rd-minute after taking another long ball from freshman Heiday Ragney (Akureyri, Iceland) and beat the keeper into the top-left corner for the 2-1 win.
"The game plan was to finish them off before that and we had a couple of chances we should've taken, but we got there at the end. I just hit it; Moodie kept saying we needed to take more shots and that's all I did. Thankfully, it went in," Herrity said.
Herrity added her second game-winner of the week with a goal in the 86th-minute to knock off the previously unbeaten Bulldogs. Freshman Varin Ness (Sogndal, Norway) sent a corner from the right flag stick into the box that fell to Herrity's foot near the far post and the junior scored the lone goal of the contest to give Carson-Newman a 1-0 win to put both teams at the top of the SAC standings.
"I don't think it was our best game soccer wise, but we worked hard the whole entire game and we didn't give up. We knew we could get that goal and Varin gave a great delivery and we worked on set pieces and it fell perfectly for me," Herrity said.
Herrity leads the Eagles with 10 goals, which is the first time since 2011 where a C-N player has scored double-digit goals in a season. Trenna Howell was the most recent Eagle with double-digit scores with 13.
Carson-Newman hits the road on Wednesday as the Eagles travel to face the King (Tenn.) Tornado on Wednesday afternoon at 3 p.m. in Bristol.
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