YSCC announces first Athletes of the Week for 2018-2019 seasons

(YSCC) - The Yankee Small College Conference is proud to announce the first Athlete of the Week Awards for the 2018-2019 season.

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Zachary Bobbie, FR - Paul Smith's College

Zachary did an awesome job training this summer and it showed as he took two minutes off his 5K time from high school in his first collegiate race at Southern Vermont College on Saturday. Zach's finish time of 22:59 was good enough for 46th overall. Zach attending an extremely small high school in Northern New York, and was the #2 runner on his high school team. Now that he is attending Paul Smith's, he has had to step up his game and was our #11 finisher in this initial race of the season. We expect Zach will continue to improve dramatically, but we have never seen a runner drop two minutes off over the 5K distance.

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Phillip Hepburn, SR - Vermont Tech

Senior Captain Phil Hepburn scored on two of his three shots in the season opener versus NVU-Johnson (adding to his one goal in a preseason scrimmage against NVU-Johnson a few nights before). In the Knight's second game he led both teams with four shots putting two of them on goal. Beyond the stats, Hepburn was a dominating presence in the center of the field both defensively and offensively.

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Amber Chasse, FR - University of Maine at Machias

Amber opened her college soccer career as a starter in our first two regular season games. In these two games, she had 15 shots, three assists, and four goals! She had the game-winning goal as well as a hat trick in the game against the University of Maine at Presque Isle.