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Claire Zimmeck named ECAC co-Offensive Player of the Week

4 Nov, 2008

William and Mary All-American Claire Zimmeck (Fairfax, Va.) earned her fifth major award of the week Tuesday afternoon, garnering honors as an ECAC co-Offensive Player of the Week award after scoring two goals in the Tribe's 3-2 victory over Old Dominion last week. The award follows Zimmeck being named as the CAA co-Player of the Week and to the national teams of the week from Soccer Buzz, Soccer America, and Top Drawer Soccer. Zimmeck is the second Tribe player in 2008 to earn honors from all five organizations, joining classmate and fellow All-American Dani Collins (Cream Ridge, N.J.), who was honored October 13-14 after scoring a pair of game-winning goals the weekend before against Northeastern and Hofstra.

Zimmeck scored twice on Senior Night, including putting-in the match-winner in the 63rd minute to record her 13th career multi-goal match. Down 1-0 coming out of the break, W&M was immediately on the attack. Sophomore Brittany Lane (Houston, Texas) gained possession near midfield on the right side, and lofted a pass to freshman Stephanie Gerow (Alexandria, Va.) on the right side, who one-touched the ball forward to Zimmeck on her way through the defense. With defenders close behind and the goalkeeper on-coming, Zimmeck buried her 11th goal of the year into the lower right corner, only 1:30 into the period.

After the Monarchs scored again to take a 2-1 lead, and the Tribe tied the game again on a goal from Gerow, Zimmeck struck again to give W&M a lead it would not relinquish. Senior Abby Lauer (Oak Hill, Va.) served a deep ball from the right side to find freshman Diana Weigel (Fairfax, Va.), who was too deep on the left for a clean shot. Weigel laid the ball along the goal line, where Zimmeck was able to sprint in and launch the cross into the top of the net for the match-winner. She nearly tacked on another for the hat trick with only 18 seconds to go, but her shot from the top of the penalty box banged off the crossbar.

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