This Week In Goucher Landmark Conference History (September 21-27)
We have had a lot of great moments since Goucher joined the Landmark Conference in 2007. While the college athletics world is still on pause due to COVID-19, we will look back at events from our teams from the past since we joined the conference. Each week we will focus on the days that occur from Monday to Sunday for the 2020 calendar year with events from our fall sports every Thursday. We will highlight some great wins and performances for cross country, field hockey, soccer and volleyball. This week we will focus on events that occurred from September 21-27.
September 21
Lizzie Barminski helped the Gophers field hockey team to a pair of 2-1 wins against Sweet Briar on this day in 2013 and 2014. She scored the game-winning goal in the 2013 meeting off an Annie Carter assist at the 79:25 mark and also set up Goucher's first goal of the match to Rachel Crain at 35:34. Demie Huffman made six saves in the win at home. Barminski then set up Crain for the decisive score in the return game against Sweet Briar in 2014 at 58:57. Carter posted the first marker of the game for the Blue and Gold off an Emily Gill assist at 15:21.
September 22
Kate Kramer helped usher in the Landmark Conference with the only goal of the game at 17:22 off a Mary Cadwallender assist to lift the Gophers past Drew in 2007 in the first-ever Landmark Conference match for the field hockey team on September 22. Aline Haddad had three saves in the victory. The squad also defeated Drew 3-0 on this date in 2018 thanks to a pair of goals by Maya Belin.
The Goucher cross country teams also had a good meet on this date at the York Invitational in 2007. J. Fraley Coles won the women's race with a time of 20:02.05 to help the Blue and Gold to a third-place standing. On the men's side, Zach Martin was sixth with a time of 29:11.26 and Matt Spitznagel was 10th with a time of 29:47.38 to help the squad finish second at the York Invitational.
September 23
A pair of wins highlights September 23 for the women's volleyball team, including a 3-2 win (11-25, 25-23, 25-22, 3-25, 15-11) against Catholic in 2014. Hannah Kuehl led the way with 15 kills while Sarah Johnson posted 32 assists. Meredith Johnson registered 18 digs and Val Kirsch chipped in 12 digs in the win.
September 24
The women's soccer team had a pair of wins on September 24. One year ago on this date Rebecca Hallameyer notched her first career goal in overtime to lift Goucher past Notre Dame 2-1. Hallameyer scored at 99:34 off of feeders from Lily Shaffer and Jolie Price. Shaffer had two assists in the game after setting up Kaitlyn Brace in the 11th minute. Christina Charikofsky made two saves in the match. Also in 2016, Isabel Suazo scored the only goal in a 1-0 win against Juniata on this day while Lexi Rudolph turned away seven shots. Price, Charikofsky and Rudolph are on the Women's Soccer All-Decade Vote (CLICK HERE TO VOTE).
Men's soccer also had a great win on this day in 2011 with a 2-1 win against Scranton. Thomas Adair scored the lone goal of the afternoon at the 24-minute mark off a pass from Nate Margolis. Steve Baum made eight saves to earn his first collegiate shutout.
September 25
In a sign of things to come, Joey Negreann finished ninth at the NCAA Division III Mid-East Regional Preview Meet with a time of 26:33 for the men's cross country team on September 25, 2010.
September 26
Three 1-0 wins for the Gophers women's soccer team highlights September 26. Samantha Turner scored the only goal unassisted against Moravian in 2015. Juliana Harkavy made five saves to earn the shutout. The squad also has two 1-0 wins against McDaniel on this day. Sherlanda Buskey scored the only goal of the match off a Shay Kettner feeder at 101:13 in 2012 and then Sara Naughton scored the decisive tally five years later against the Green Terror at 84:36 in 2018. Harkavy made six stops in 2012 while Christina Charikofsky turned away six shots in the 2017 meeting.
Scott Mt. Pleasant scored twice in the second half to propel the Goucher men's soccer team to a 2-1 overtime win on the road against Hood in 2017. Mt. Pleasant tied the game at 1 when he headed in a corner kick serve from Konrad Bulanowski at 81:04 and then headed in a Bulanowski corner kick serve off a pass from Drew Phillips for the game-winner in overtime at 96:04. Daniel Hendry made four saves in the winning efort.
September 27
Claire Sauvage-Mar registered 85 assists in three wins on this day for the women's volleyball team. The Blue and Gold rallied to defeat Washington 3-2 (24-30, 30-27, 26-30, 30-24, 15-12) in 2007. Megan Smith posted 22 kills and 18 digs in the win against the Shorewomen while Sauvage-Mar tallied 39 assists. Sauvage-Mar then had 26 assists in a 3-0 win (25-19, 25-15, 25-15) against Hood and 20 assists in a 3-0 (25-8, 25-9, 25-7) victory against Trinity in 2008. Goucher also downed McDaniel 3-0 (25-19, 25-20, 25-21) in 2011 and Hollins 3-0 (25-20, 25-16, 25-22) in 2013. Megan Chalk recorded a combined 29 kills in the two wins.