Shippensburg honoring former Marple Newtown star
Courtney Colbert, a 1995 graduate of Shippensburg University, will be among nine inductees into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame on Oct. 5.
Courtney Colbert, a 1995 graduate of Shippensburg University, will be among nine inductees into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame on Oct. 5.
Colbert, a former Marple Newtown lacrosse star who now lives in Conshohocken, is a three-time all-Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference and four-time Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association all-American player who holds the school record for career goals with 210. That total ranks fourth in PSAC history.
As a senior in 1995, Colbert was named the Division II lacrosse player of the year.
Weekly honors. Temple freshman Brandon Matthews swept the Atlantic Ten Conference weekly golf awards, earning both player and rookie honors.
Matthews, who also was the A-10 rookie honoree last week, was the medalist in the Hartford Hawks Invitational at Bull's Bridge Golf Club in South Kent, Conn. He eagled the first hole of a sudden-death playoff. With a 2-under-par 214 (74-68-72) over the 54 holes, he helped the Owls finish sixth among the 16 teams.
Anastasiya Shcherbakova, a senior at Chestnut Hill College, earned honorable mention in Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference tennis.
Wednesday's games. Dodji Freitas (Fels) scored the winning goal 46 seconds into the first overtime period to lift Holy Family (4-3-2) to a 3-2 men's soccer win over visiting Molloy (4-4-0). Freitas scored all three Holy Family goals to record his first career hat trick. With 11 goals, Freitas is tied for the conference lead.
Andy Attah scored two goals and Michael Frei added two assists as Neumann defeated Colonial States Athletic Conference foe Gwynedd-Mercy, 3-1, in men's soccer.
Wesley Fossile and Daniel Snyder scored as East Stroudsburg (2-6) handed Philadelphia (4-1-4) its first men's soccer loss, 2-0.
George Lambritsios and Sean Neary scored for Cabrini (4-5-1, 1-1 Colonial States Athletic Conference) in a 2-0 CSAC men's soccer win over visiting Keystone (3-6, 1-1).
Haverford's 3-1 volleyball victory at Molloy in Hoboken, N.J., was its seventh win in a row.
Drexel's Ken Tribbett scored in the 85th minute for a 2-1 men's soccer win over Penn (2-7-0). Nathan Page also scored for the host Dragons (5-2-1). Travis Cantrell had the Quakers' goal.
Lycoming senior Jennifer Basch (Pottsgrove) reached 100 career saves when she made seven in a 6-1 women's soccer loss to visiting Fairleigh Dickinson-Florham.
