Women's Soccer

ON THIS DATE: Monks Upset Lasers, Claim First-Ever GNAC Championship

Posted: Nov 04, 2020

On November 4th, 2018 #2 Saint Joseph's College unseated #1 Lasell College, 1-0, in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Women's Soccer Championship at Lasell's Taylor Field. The men's soccer, women's soccer, and field hockey teams all claimed GNAC Championships on this date.

NOTEWORTHY:

Senior forward Haley DaGraca (Saco, Maine) scored what proved to be the game-winning goal at the 59:14 mark, when senior Colleen Sheehan (Medway, Mass.) worked her way around two defenders and delivered a precise right-to-left crossing pass to her classmate, who headed a one-timer past the Lasell keeper
For Lasell, the loss snapped an eight-year GNAC Championship run
SJC freshman Adia Grogan (Kennebunk, Maine) was outstanding in the victory and tied her season high with 10 saves in the shutout
Lasell posted leads in shots (17-8), shots on goal (10-4), and corner kicks (7-2) on the afternoon

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Founded in 1912 by the Sisters of Mercy in Portland, Maine, Saint Joseph’s College is Maine’s Catholic liberal arts college in the Mercy tradition. We are inclusive of all faiths, including no faith. The 474-acre campus, located on the shore of Sebago Lake in Standish, Maine offers more than 40 undergraduate programs and a Division III athletic program to a population of approximately 1,000 on-campus students. A pioneer of distance education since the 1970s, the College also provides online certificates and undergraduate and graduate degrees for thousands more working adults who reside in more than 20 other countries. In 2015 the College was selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to receive its Community Engagement Classification, highlighting the College’s focus on community service throughout its mission and daily interactions within local, regional, and global communities. In 2018, Princeton Review recognized SJC as one of its “Green Colleges” for its sustainability initiatives. Learn more at www.sjcme.edu.