MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – After talling two assists in the Mountaineers’ victories at James Madison and Kent State last week, the striker became the freshman Dilary Heredia-Beltran West Virginia University women’s soccer team was named WVU Student Athlete of the Week by University Apartments.
The Wichita, Kansas native posted an assist on the first goal of the game at the 1:20 mark at JMU and threw the ball at the junior striker / defender Julianne Vallerand for their long goal from 30 meters away. Heredia-Beltran then recorded their second submission of the week on Redshirt Senior Striker Lauren Segallas The game was won in the 61st minute against Kent State, who fed a well-placed ball into the 6-yard box for Segalla to head in.
Heredia-Beltran now leads the Mountaineers with three assists in the season, while they are also tied in 8th place in the Big 12 in overall templates (3) and 10th in the league in assists per game (0.33).
West Virginia will open the Big 12 conference game on Friday, September 24, as the squad greets Iowa State in Morgantown for a matchup at 7 p.m. ET at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium.
This week in volleyball: West Virginia (10-1) kicks off its Big 12 season in Morgantown, with two games against Oklahoma (6-5) September 24-25 … Friday’s game starts at 6pm, followed by a game on Saturday at 5 p.m. in the WVU Colosseum.
Last week in volleyball: West Virginia held its annual tournament, the Mountaineer Invitational, on March 16-17. September at the WU Coliseum in Morgantown, which went 2-1 on the weekend… WVU opened the tournament with a double header on Thursday, September 16… WVU beat George Washington in four sets in the first game, in set values of 25-18, 25- 18, 24-26 and 25-8 … after the win saw West Virginia in a match against UMBC Action … the Mountaineers swept the retrievers in sentence grades of 25-15, 25-16 and 25-21 … to the At the end of the weekend, the Mountaineers suffered their first loss of the season against No. 20 Penn State and passed the match 3-0. in sentence notes of 22-25, 13-25 and 20-25 … In the Mountaineers’ first win over George Washington over the weekend, three Mountaineers recorded double-digit kills, including the senior middle blocker in their fifth year Briana Lynch with a season high of 17, along with Redshirt Senior Setter Adrian Ell and Senior Outside Hitter Kristin Lux, both with season highs of 16… Senior Outside Hitter Natali Petrova recorded 16 excavations in the season … it was followed by an experienced defensive specialist Alexa Hasting who has started 11 excavations and is out of the hitter for the second year Skye Stokes who dug 10 balls … Zerwas also recorded 41 assists in the win … … for the first time since 2017 the WVU won 10 games in a row to open the season … on the weekend Ell led the WVU with 37 total kills, Zerwas followed with 93 assists, Petrova had 29 digs and one center blocker in the freshman Madison page ended the weekend with a team high of 11 blocks.
Remarks: WVU leads the Big 12 in the kills with an average of 13.81 per sentence and is in second place in the excavations with 14.89 per sentence … individually Lynch ranks first in the hit rate with a hit rate of 0.450 and Zerwas in second place with an average of 10.47 assists per set … three Mountaineers ranked in the top 5 serving aces … Stokes averages .54 service aces per set, followed by Ell at .47 per set and Petrova at .46 per set … Lynch has 1.39. fourth in total blocks per set and Hasting is third with an average of 4.25 digs per set … West Virginia last played against Oklahoma on November 20, 2020, beating the Sooners 3-1 … Oklahoma leads the streak 17-2.
This week in men’s football: The Mountaineers play two home games at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium … first WVU greets Dayton on Tuesday, September 21st in Morgantown, before the team takes on St. Bonaventure on Saturday, September 25th … both competitions begin at 7:00 pm ET.
Last week in men’s football: No. 4 in West Virginia (4-0-2) played in Huntington on September 17 to a 2-2, double extra time tie with Marshall No. 6. Yoran Popovic and move forward in the second year Ciro Bourlot Jaeggi found the end of the net for the Mountaineers, but it wasn’t enough to secure a road win … the Thundering Herd had a 15-9 lead on shots, including 6-5 on shots on goal … junior midfielders Luke McCormick received the assist at Popovics goal in the 17th minute, while the midfielder in the fifth year Pau Jimenez Albelda and senior striker Tony Pineda Bourlot Jaeggi’s record was credited in the 42nd minute … in goal, senior goalkeeper in the fifth year Steven Tekesky scored a season high of four parades in 110 minutes of play.
Remarks: After the draw, WVU are now 16-6-2 against their opponent in the state, including 6-4-1 on the street … the Mountaineers are now 2-0-1 against ranked opponents this fall … That was Huntington WVU’s first goal in the regular season since 2003 … Popovic’s goal against Marshall was the first of his career … West Virginia is 2-1 against Dayton and 9-1 in 10 total games against St. Bonaventure … WVU last played the Flyer in 2019 … the Mountaineers haven’t fought the Bonnies since 1994 … West Virginia was ranked 4th in the United Soccer Coaches poll last week, good for the organization’s highest ranking since October 31, 2006 … WVU was also No. 6 in last week’s College Soccer News poll and No. 10 on TopDrawerSoccer.com… Bourlot Jaeggi is at the top of the team with two goals this year… eight more have also scored for WVU this season.
This week in women’s football: The Mountaineers are opening the Big 12 Conference game this week, hosting Iowa State on Friday, September 24th … kick-off at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium in Morgantown is scheduled for 7pm ET … the game will be played live on Big 12 Now streamed on ESPN +.
Last week in women’s football: West Virginia (6-2-1) took two wins to complete their non-conference slates at James Madison and Kent State last week … First, the WVU traveled to Harrisonburg, Virginia on September 16, beating the Dukes with 2 -1, at Sentara Park … West Virginia struck very quickly as a junior forward / defender Julianne Vallerand brought the WVU only 1:20 on the board and scored their fourth goal of the season … midfielder in her second year Lilly McCarthy repeated Vallerand’s quick second-half result, only 1:21 in goal in the second 45 minutes … Kent State on September 19, the Mountaineers took their second 2-1 win of the week, leading the Golden Flashes … Senior Defender Jordan Brewster took a penalty opportunity in the first half to get the Mountaineers on the board but it was the Redshirt senior striker Lauren Segallas 61-minute hit that made all the difference … the West Virginia defense narrowly missed the shutout after Kent State scored a penalty in the final minute of the game.
Remarks: McCarthy’s quick goal against James Madison was considered the game winner, the first of her career … Vallerand’s goal in the first half at the 1:20 mark against JMU was the eighth fastest goal in program history and the earliest result for the Mountaineers since a senior striker Alina steel scored 2:01 in the first half against Bowling Green on September 22, 2019 … Brewsters PK against KSU was her second of the season, while Segalla’s result was the sixth game winner of her career … WVU and Kent State met for the first time in of programming history last week when West Virginia took a 1-0 lead on the series … Freshman Defender Ruby darling recorded their first game action for the Mountaineers against the Golden Flashes … Heredia-Beltran now leads the Mountaineers with three assists in the season … WVU takes 3rd place in the Big 12 Conference in goals (19), goals per game (2.11) and points ( 55).
This week in cross-country skiing: The Mountaineers continue their season as they travel to Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, September 25, to compete in the LHU Invitational at the West Branch Cross Country Course … the race begins at 11:00 AM ET.
Last week in cross country: The Mountaineers were free last week.
Remarks: WVU is traveling to a total of four meetings this season … 13 climbers return from last season while a total of six new faces join the team … the team finished third in the 2021 Big 12 Cross Country Championship and came in for the 2020 NCAA selected Cross Country Championships for the first time since 2014 as a team … the Mountaineers finished 29th overall … the Mountaineers opened their 2021 season with a race in Lehigh on Friday 3rd September … the race was the sixth Visiting the WVU in Lehigh since 2009, having participated in the Paul Short Invitational and the Lehigh Invitational … the team has participated in the Lehigh Invitational four times, including season opening wins in 2014 and 2017 … the Mountaineers were most recently at the Lehigh Invitational in action on August 30, 2019 and finished third overall … On September 25, West Virginia started for the third time in Lock Haven … WVU won the annual Veran design both 2018 and 2019.
This week in golf: WVU is open until the Mountaineer Invitational on April 4-5. October idle at Pete Dye Golf Club in Bridgeport, West Virginia.
Last week in golf: The golf team finished sixth of 14 teams in the season opener at The Gopher Invitational at Windsong Farm Golf Club in Independence, Minnesota Mark Goetz … the Greensburg, Pennsylvania, native shot 70-69-74 = 213 to get an even par and finish 18th … Senior Kurtis Grant Tie for 31st with rounds of 72-70-75 = 217 to finish 4 over par … fifth graders Logan Perkins (70-77-72 = 219) and junior Trent Tipton (75-69-75 = 219) shot 6-over-par and scored for 35th … second year Jackson Davenport wrote WVU’s low round of the day with a 71 … he finished with laps of 73-81-71 = 225 and finished 50th at 12-over-par … the Mountaineers finished the 54-hole with 10-over -Par event … WVU shot rounds of 285-285-292 = 862.
Quote: “It’s been a good opening week for us. Now we’re focusing on hosting the Mountaineer Invitational at Pete Dye in a few weeks.” – Coach Sean Covich
This week in tennis: The Mountaineers begin their fall planning 2021-22 this weekend as they partner with Marshall University in Charleston, W.Va. Align Thunder in the Mountains. The tournament will take place from Friday, September 24th to Sunday, September 26th.
Last season in tennis: WVU was 3-6 in the non-conference game and 0-6 in Big 12 matches … the Mountaineers were ranked 4th in the Atlantic region of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) on March 18, 2021.
Remarks: WVU trainer Miha Lisac enters its eighth season with the Mountaineers … West Virginia will be competing in four tournaments this fall … this is the second time WVU has co-hosted Thunder in the Mountains since 2019 … after Thunder in the Mountains, West Virginia will travel to Lynchburg, Virginia ITA Atlantic Regional Tournament … this year’s regional tournament is organized by Liberty University … with only two returnees, Senior Anastaiia Bovolskaia and Sophomore Momoko Nagato, the Mountaineers welcome six newcomers to the roster for the 2021-22 season
