Local roundup: South grad Green earns MAC Freedom Offensive Player of the Week nod – Williamsport Sun-Gazette

With three goals and two assists in a pair of games to open the 2021 season for the Lycoming College womens soccer team, junior Bella Green earned her first career MAC Freedom Offensive Player of the Week award.

Green, a South Williamsport graduate, opened the year with a two-goal, two-assist effort as the Warriors ran past Gwynedd Mercy, 8-0, on Saturday. She assisted on two goals in the first 11 minutes before adding a goal later in the first half and one late in the second.

Freshman Ali Koval made a splash in her first week playing libero for the Lycoming College volleyball team, averaging more than seven digs per set to earn the MAC Freedoms Defensive Player of the Week award.

Koval a North Penn-Mansfield graduate who leads the MAC Freedom with 7.08 digs per set had at least 17 digs in each of the teams four matches during its opening week. Koval opened her career with 17 digs, an assist and two aces against Manhattanville before helping the team to its first win of the year with a 17-dig, one-ace effort in a sweep of La Roche on Friday.

She capped the weekend with a pair more sterling efforts, as she posted 33 digs and added a kill against Penn State-Mont Alto before notching 18 digs and an assist in a 3-0 win over Notre Dame (Md.), the defending CSAC champions.

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Local roundup: South grad Green earns MAC Freedom Offensive Player of the Week nod - Williamsport Sun-Gazette