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Whithorn Receives GPAC Defensive Honor
Lenz Named To Academic All-District First-Team
Kievits Receives Weekly GPAC Honor
Whithorn Named GPAC Defensive Player Of The Week
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Rick Kievits |
Rick Kievits, a junior forward from Nieuw Vennep, The Netherlands, has been named to the 2009 All-Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Men’s Soccer Team as selected by the league’s head coaches.
Kievits was the Mustangs’ leading scorer this season with 12 goals and four assists for 28 points. He supplied the game winning goal in two of the Mustangs’ 12 victories.
Kievits joined the Mustangs this season as a transfer from North Iowa Area Community College, where he earned honorable mention All-Region XI honors last year.
In addition to Kievits, the Mustangs placed Jeremy Lenz and Chase Maier on the All-GPAC second-team.
Lenz, a junior midfielder from Lincoln, Neb., was the Mustangs’ third leading scorer with three goals and five assists for 11 points.
Maier, a junior defender from Deadwood, S.D., was the defensive standout for a Morningside team that limited its opposition to averages of 1.04 goals and 11.4 shots per game.
Morningside’s Quin Kilgore, Ty Thackston, Travis Ward, Daniel Whithorn, and Matt Witt were all named to the All-GPAC honorable mention list.
Kilgore, a senior midfielder from Lincoln, Neb., scored four goals for eight points.
Thackston, a junior forward from Lansing, Kan., scored one goal for two points.
Ward, a junior defender from Omaha, Neb., and Witt, a senior defender from Hastings, Neb., were defensive standouts for a Morningside team that set a school record by allowing an average of only 1.04 goals per game. Witt also contributed five points to the Mustangs’ offensive attack with five assists, while Ward scored one goal for two points.
Whithorn, a sophomore goal keeper from Omaha, had an 11-7 record with six shutouts, 75 saves, and a goals against average of 1.11 goals per game.
Morningside posted a 12-7-1 record and finished third in the GPAC with a 9-3 league record during the 2009 season.
Click here for the complete 2009 All-GPAC Men's Soccer Team.
 Daniel Whithorn, a sophomore goal keeper from Omaha, Neb., has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Men’s Soccer Defensive Player of the Week for the week of Oct. 26 to Nov. 1.
Whithorn allowed only one goal in Morningside’s two matches last week as the Mustangs defeated Dordt College 3-1 and upset 19th-ranked Hastings College 1-0 to finish the regular season with an 11-6-1 record and a six-match winning streak against GPAC opponents.
He had five saves in the Mustangs’ win at Hastings to hand the GPAC regular season champions their only league loss of the season. Whithorn had two saves in the Mustangs’ win against Dordt.
Whithorn has five shutouts, 71 saves, and a goals against average of 1.06 goals per game this season.
 Jeremy Lenz, a junior midfielder from Lincoln, Neb., has been named to the 2009 ESPN The Magazine College Division Academic All-District VII First-Team as selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
As a first-team all-district selection, Lenz will go on the ballot for the ESPN The Magazine College Division Academic All-America Team.
Lenz has a 3.92 cumulative grade point average (GPA) and is majoring in mathematics teaching.
Lenz is the Mustangs’ second leading scorer this season with three goals and a team-high five assists for 11 points.
Student-athletes must be of at least sophomore athletic and academic status, be a starter or important reserve with legitimate athletic credentials, and have a minimum GPA of 3.30 in order to be eligible for ESPN The Magazine Academic honors.
 Rick Kievits, a freshman forward from Nieuw Vennep, Netherlands, has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Men’s Soccer Offensive Player of the Week for Oct. 5-11.
Kievits tallied two goals and an assists in the Mustangs’ two matches last week. All came in the Mustangs’ 3-1 victory against Midland Lutheran College last Sunday in Sioux City.
Kievits is the Mustangs’ leading scorer this season with eight goals and four assists for 20 points.
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Jeremy Lenz |
Matt Mayfield |
Morningside’s men’s soccer team snapped a three-match losing streak with a 3-1 GPAC victory over Midland Lutheran College on Saturday at Elwood Olsen Stadium.
Rick Kievits played a role in all three goals for the Mustangs, who climbed to 6-5-1 overall and 4-3 in the GPAC. Kievits tallied a pair of goals in the first half, his seventh and eighth of the season, to stake the Mustangs to a 2-0 lead at the intermission.
Kievits and Jake Adams each assisted on a goal by Jeremy Lenz with two minutes left when the Mustangs put the game away.
Morningside dominated the contest with a 16-5 shot advantage. Mustang goal keeper Matt Mayfield came up with four saves while making his first start of the season.
Morningside will travel to Mitchell, S.D., on Wednesday, Oct. 14, for a match against Dakota Wesleyan University.
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 Daniel Whithorn, a sophomore goal keeper from Omaha, Neb., has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Men’s Soccer Defensive Player of the Week for his performances from Sept. 14-20.
Whithorn did not allow a goal in victories against Northwestern College and Concordia University as the Mustangs extended their winning streak to four matches. He had six saves in a 3-0 win against Northwestern and two saves in a 1-0 triumph against Concordia.
He has played every minute so far this season and has limited the opposition to a scoring average of 0.83 goals per game.
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