Joyce earns third-straight men’s soccer Player of the Week award

Vece receives volleyball Libero of the Week honor

Hawrylik named men’s soccer Freshman of the Week

RINDGE, N.H. (October 24, 2005) – Three Franklin Pierce student-athletes collected weekly honors from the Northeast-10 Conference this afternoon.

All-America forward Christopher Joyce (Jarrow, England) collected NE-10 men’s soccer Player of the Week honors for the third-straight week, while senior Tara Vece (Clinton, Conn./The Morgan School) was named volleyball Libero of the Week and freshman Marek Hawrylik (Olsztyn, Poland/The Winchendon School) received men’s soccer Freshman of the Week accolades.

Joyce, who has been named Player of the Week four times this season (five career), totaled 11 points with five goals and an assist in a 2-0 week for Franklin Pierce. He led the Ravens to a key 7-0 victory over UMass Lowell, ranked fifth in the region, with two goals and an assist on Wednesday. The effort earned him the Jeff Burstein Man-of-the-Match Award given to the Ravens top player in the regular season meeting with the River Hawks. Joyce rounded out the week by netting his second hat trick of the season (third career) in Saturday’s 7-2 win at Saint Rose.

Joyce, who has totaled 19 points with eight goals and three assists to lead the Ravens to 20 goals in their last three wins, has all but sewn up the Northeast-10 scoring title. He leads the Conference with 48 points (2.82/match) and 21 goals (1.24), while sharing the lead with six assists. Joyce’s six match-winning markers also leads the NE-10 and is just one shy of the program record of seven set by former two-time All-American Seamus Donnelly during the 1996 season.

With his 11 points last week, Joyce became just the sixth player in program history to reach 100 career points. In addition to ranking sixth all-time with 100 points, Joyce’s 43 career goals are tied for fifth all-time in 40 matches played over two seasons at Franklin Pierce. Joyce earned first team All-America, All-New England and All-Northeast-10 status in 2004 for the Ravens as he led the NE-10 with 22 goals to go with eight assists for a Conference-high 52 points.

Vece earned Libero of the Week honors for the first time in her career after averaging a team-best 6.73 digs per game in a 2-1 week for Franklin Pierce. Vece totaled a match-high 32 digs to help the Ravens defeat the University of New Haven , 3-1, for the first time in program history on Saturday. In Wednesday’s 3-0 win over Saint Michael’s, Vece chipped in 15 digs and she led the Ravens with 27 digs against UMass Lowell last Monday.

Vece is averaging a team-best 5.52 digs per match (2nd in the NE-10) and has also collected 22 service aces on the season (3rd team). In 94 career matches played, Vece has totaled 1,604 digs (4.76/game) and 56 service aces.

Hawrylik earned Freshman of the Week honors for the first time this season after he scored the match-winning goal and dished an assist in Franklin Pierce’s key 7-0 victory over UMass Lowell. It marked his first career multi-point match.

Hawrylik has played all 17 matches, starting 16, in his first season for the Ravens and ranks fourth on the team with nine points on three goals (3rd team) and three assists (4th). The match-winner against UMass Lowell on Wednesday was the first of his career.

Franklin Pierce’s men’s soccer team (10-4-3, 8-1-2 NE-10), ranked fourth in last week’s NSCAA/adidas New England Regional rankings, needs just four points in its final two matches of the regular season this week to claim its first NE-10 regular season title since joining the Conference prior to the 2000 season. The Ravens are at Saint Anselm this afternoon before hosting No. 13 Southern Connecticut State University on Thursday at 7 p.m.

The Franklin Pierce volleyball team (11-11, 8-4 NE-10) returns to action on Tuesday when it visits Bryant University at 7 p.m.