Women's Soccer | 9/17/2018 3:25:00 PM
AMHERST, N.Y. - Junior forward Jamie Boyar (Williamsville, N.Y.) of Daemen College has been named the East Coast Conference Women's Soccer Offensive Player of the Week for games played September 10-16. The official announcement was made via the league's weekly sport report which was released this afternoon from conference headquarters in West Babylon, N.Y.
Boyar totaled four goals over two games last week, both Daemen victories at Karrer Field to even the team's overall (3-3) and ECC (1-1) records.
She opened the week by netting Daemen's first goal in a 2-0 non-conference victory over Shepherd University on September 12. Boyar took a through ball from Celia de Pablo Esteban (Burgos, Spain) and broke the scoreless tie in the game's 25th minute.
Against Molloy, Boyar registered the first hat trick of her career, helping the Wildcats erase a 2-0 deficit in their 3-2 victory. After Molloy scored twice in the first 11 minutes of the contest, Boyar cut the deficit in half with her first tally in the 29th minute, off a feed from redshirt senior midfielder Sarah Britton (Syracuse, N.Y.). She got the equalizer in the 60th minute, deflecting a crossing feed from sophomore midfielder Sam Hanes (North Tonawanda, N.Y.) across the goal line. And, after going into overtime, Boyar ended the game in the 92nd minute when she stole the ball from the Molloy defender, raced up the right side and cut into the middle where she scored from 16 yards out.
The output vs. Molloy marked the fifth multi-goal game of Boyar's career. Daemen is undefeated (5-0) when scores at least two goals, and 12-5-1 when scores at least once. She also became the first Daemen player with three goals in a game since Stephanie Zurales did so in a 6-0 win over Washington Adventist University on September 19, 2015.
For the season, Boyar has totaled seven goals, 15 points and three game-winning goals, all of which presently lead the ECC.
The announcement today marked the fourth ECC weekly accolade of Boyar's career. She was a one-time ECC Rookie of the Week honoree during the 2016 season, and she was twice named the ECC Offensive Player of the Week in 2017. She's also the second Daemen player to earn Offensive Player of the Week honors this season, joining de Pablo Esteban who received the accolade following the opening week of the season.
In her career, Boyar has appeared in 39 games and totaled 24 goals and 56 points.
Boyar leads the Wildcats into a non-conference game Tuesday, September 18 at Mercyhurst University.
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