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Navy's Stevie Ray and Johns Hopkins' Kyle Gertridge Named September 14 Varsity Southern Division Co-Players of the Week
BRIDGEPORT, Pa. -- The September 14 Varsity Southern Division Player of the Week award spans over 30-miles this week as Stevie Ray (So., Baytown, Texas/Ross S. Sterling) of the United States Naval Academy and Kyle Gertridge (Sr., Palo Alto, Calif./Gunn) of Johns Hopkins University share the honor after leading their team to wins last week.
Playing in the Naval Academy's only game of the week, Ray scored a career-high five goals, including the game-winner in double overtime, to lead the No. 17-nationally ranked Midshipmen to an 11-10 victory over No. 13 University of California-San Diego in Annapolis on September 12. He added a pair of field blocks in support of Navy's cause as the Mids upped their record to 6-4 on the year.
Ray, who entered the season without a collegiate goal, now has 11 in eight games so far in 2009.
Hopkins, which began the weekend at Navy against UC-San Diego on September 11 and concluded the a five-games in three-day streak at the Princeton Invitational on the campus of Princeton University, was led by the play of Gertridge in each of the contests.
Facing two nationally-ranked
opponents and three Collegiate Water Polo Association Northern
Division programs, Gertridge respond
ed with 15 goals, five assists and six steals with five ejections
drawn.
Versus UC-San Diego on Friday night, he led the team with two goals, while adding an assist and a steal, as the Tritons escaped with a 9-7 victory over the Blue Jays.
He continued his scoring prowess at the Princeton Invitational posting two goals with a pair of steals and an ejection drawn in a victory over Iona College (13-7 W), before expoloding for four goals with an assist, a steal and an ejection drawn in a 12-7 win over Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Further, he drew an ejection and punched in three goals for a hat-trick against No. 4 University of California-Los Angeles (14-7 L) as the Bruins managed to pull away in the closing minutes of the fourth-period to stave off a JHU upset bid.
Gertridge concluded the weekend by pouring in four goals versus Fordham University (11-8 W), while adding three assists and two steals, as he leads the Blue Jays with 18 goals and 25 points on the season.
September 14 Southern Division Player of the Week Honor Roll: Howie Kalter (Bucknell University), Greg Naranjo (Gannon University)
