ST. LOUIS, Mo. - The
Missouri Valley Conference has announced that Drake juniors Megan Fisher (Ankeny, Iowa/Ankeny) and Kalena Litch (Plymouth, Minn./Wayzata)
have been named the league's Women's Soccer Defensive Player of the Week and
Goalkeeper of the Week, respectively.
Fisher is being honored for the first time in her Drake career, while
Litch garnered a weekly league award for the third-consecutive week and fifth
time as a Bulldog.
Fisher helped anchor a defensive unit that
registered back-to-back shutouts over the weekend to extend the Bulldogs'
shutout string to three-straight games. She was key in limiting Northern
Colorado, in a 1-0 Drake victory last Friday (Sept. 14), to only four shots on
goal en route to the clean sheet.
Fisher's biggest play didn't go into the stat
column as the Bears slid into Litch at the 57:44 mark and poked the shot by
her, but Fisher was there to clear a shot off the goal line and preserve
the shutout.
Fisher again was at her defensive best versus
Eastern Illinois (a 1-0 Drake victory) on Sunday (Sept. 16) spearheading a
defensive unit that held the Panthers to only four shots on goal.
On the season, Fisher has helped guide the
Bulldogs to four shutouts and owns three shots from her defender's position.
Litch extended her shutout streak to
three-consecutive games with a pair of clean sheets and seven saves over the
weekend to help Drake extend its winning streak to six straight.
In the Bulldogs' win over Northern Colorado,
Litch became Drake's all-time leader in saves when her second of three saves pushed
her past Jenny Schroeder (2006-08). Litch also compiled four saves in a
1-0 Bulldog' win over Eastern Illinois.
On the season, Litch owns 41 saves, while
posting a 0.70 goals against average.
With her two wins and two shutouts last week
Litch moved into second and third place all-time at Drake in shutouts (15) and wins
(22), respectively. She also
became the Bulldogs' all-time leader in minutes played against Eastern
Illinois.
Drake (8-2) enters action this week looking to extend it six-game
winning streak when the Bulldogs host UMKC on Wednesday (Sept. 19) at the
Cownie Soccer Complex in the second annual "KICK Cancer Game" before opening
MVC play against Missouri State on Saturday (Sept. 22). A victory over UMKC would enable Drake
to equal the school record for consecutive wins (7) set during the 2003 and
2004 campaigns. Game times are
slated for 7:00 p.m. both nights.
