Eagle soccer teams post scrimmage wins

The Eagle men’s soccer team played it’s lone pre-season scrimmage on Saturday afternoon, downing Division II Shippensburg University, 2-1.

Senior Matt Wren (Pittsburgh, Pa./Keystone Oaks) notched Juniata’s first goal in the 15th minute, taking a short pass from sophomore David Grim (Boalsburg, Pa./State College Area), and finishing from about 18 yards out.

Grim expanded the Juniata lead to 2-0 in the 25th minute on a blast from 15 yards away, with sophomore Jeremy Donaldson’s (Shrewsbury, Pa./Susquehannock) getting the assist after making a timely cross to Grim as the Raider backs were collapsing on him.

Shippensburg pulled to within one of the Eagles, scoring in the 75th minute to cut the margin to 2-1, but Juniata held on for the victory.

Junior Joe Kohler (Vienna, Va./James Madison) played the first 30 minutes in the Eagle goal, while junior Brian Trinclisti (Lewistown, Pa./Lewistown) worked the final 60 minutes of the contest.

Meanwhile, the Juniata women’s soccer team downed Pitt-Johnstown by an identical 2-1 score.

Erin Eddinger (Barto, Pa./Boyertown) scored in the 10th minute off an assist from Katie Young (Huntingdon, Pa./Huntingdon Area), but UPJ knotted the game at 1-1 in the 16th minute on a set piece goal. Sarah Stebbins scored what proved to be the game-winner as the first of the three 30-minute periods drew to a close.

- Pete Lefresne, Sports Information Director

Summer camp season underway around Juniata

Far from being deserted, the Kennedy Sports + Recreation Center and Juniata’s other athletic facilities can be busy places in mid-summer.

Take Friday, June 26, for example.

Head Coach Greg Curley’s basketball team camp got underway Friday afternoon with 20 teams in attendance. That kept three courts going in the KS+RC on a full-time basis. While most of the teams at camp were from central Pennsylvania, there were a couple from outside the region - including St. James School from Maryland.

Up on Winton Hill Fields, the Juniata soccer camp wrapped up on Friday with camper-versus-counselor games, in a 3-on-3 format. Approximately a dozen parents stopped by to watch the annual end-of-camp event, in which the campers in the upper age group actually upset their counselors.

Out on the tennis courts, Head Coach Beth Bleil’s Recreational Tennis Program is underway with a session that runs through July 2. The next session of Rec Tennis starts on July 13 and runs through July 30.

Five more camps will start up in the seven-day span following the Fourth of July holiday: soccer team camp, a pair of football camps, a women’s volleyball camp, and the Juniata field hockey camp.

For more information about any of the summer camp programs at Juniata, please return to the Athletics homepage (www.juniatasports.net) and click on the “Camps” link.

– Pete Lefresne, Sports Information Director

WVB grads move into coaching ranks

Two 2009 graduates of the Juniata women’s volleyball program will take up roles on the bench this season, as they begin their careers in coaching.

Erin Albert (Philipsburg, Pa./Philipsburg-Osceola) has accepted a position as an assistant coach at Chatham University, a Division III program in Pittsburgh, Pa. The Cougars play in the Presidents Athletic Conference, and Albert will be working alongside second-year head coach Frank Stackiewicz. Also on the staff at Chatham is athletic director Amy Buxbaum, former Juniata women’s basketball coach from 1998 to 2003.

Amber Thomas (Ephrata, Pa./Conestoga Valley) will break into the coaching ranks at her high school alma mater, Conestoga Valley High School in Lancaster, Pa., as the head coach.

- Pete Lefresne, Sports Information Director