Franklin Pierce All-Americans
Collect NE-10 Honors
Demoner named Women’s Player of the Week
for second-straight week
Thorpe earns Men’s Goalkeeper of the Week
for 15^th time in career 

RINDGE, N.H. (September 24, 2007) – Two Franklin Pierce University soccer All-Americans received weekly honors from the Northeast-10 Conference on Monday.

            Senior All-American Gabriela Demoner (Curitiba, Brazil) earned NE-10 women’s soccer Player of the Week honors for the second-straight week (sixth career), while senior All-American James Thorpe (East Longmeadow, Mass./Bridgton Academy) collected men’s Goalkeeper of the Week accolades for the first time this season (15^th career) from the Conference.           

Demoner played a role in all five Franklin Pierce goals in a 1-0-1 week, totaling four goals and an assist for nine points. She registered two goals and an assist in Saturday’s 3-0 victory over Pace University after netting both Raven goals in Wednesday’s 2-2 double-overtime draw with Stonehill College. Demoner scored the equalizing goal against Stonehill with just 6:18 to play in regulation.

            Demoner, who has played a role in Franklin Pierce’s last nine goals scored – netting six and assisting on three, leads the Northeast-10 with 11 goals and 29 points. Her team-best seven assists are good for second in the Conference.

Demoner, who recently helped lead Brazil to a bronze medal at the 2007 World University Games in Thailand after helping her country to a gold medal at that event in 2005, currently ranks 21^st in program history with 71 points while in her second season at Franklin Pierce.

Thorpe averaged 2.5 saves per match in posting a pair of shutouts in a 2-0 week for the Franklin Pierce men’s team – who remain unbeaten over their last seven matches (6-0-1). He made four saves in Saturday’s 3-0 victory at Bryant University, the Ravens first in four visits to Smithfield, R.I., under Head Coach Marco Koolman, after making one stop in Wednesday’s 2-0 victory over Bentley College.

Thorpe has played all 740 of Franklin Pierce’s minutes in goal this season over eight matches and has posted a 0.73 goals against average (5^th NE-10) and .750 save percentage with four shutouts (2^nd).

Thorpe, the first three-time Goalkeeper of the Year in NE-10 history and first two-time All-America keeper in program history, is in the process of re-writing the Franklin Pierce men’s soccer record books. His 41 career shutouts have shattered both the program and NE-10 records, while his 0.68 career GAA is on pace to shatter the program mark, while his .812 career save percentage is currently good for second all-time. The Ravens have posted a 54-13-10 record over the past four seasons with Thorpe between the goal posts. Last season, Thorpe posted a Division II-best and program record 0.45 goals against average, while his 14 shutouts as a freshman led DII and set a program record.

            Among NCAA Division II career leaders, Thorpe ranks 13^th in goals against average and ninth with his 6,977 career minutes played.

The Franklin Pierce women (6-1-2, 4-1-2 NE-10), ranked 17^th in last week’s NSCAA/adidas Division II poll and third in the New England Region, is back in action on Tuesday when it visits rival Merrimack College, ranked fourth in the region, at 7 p.m. The men (6-1-1, 5-0-0 NE-10) visits Granite State rivals Southern New Hampshire University on Wednesday at 7 p.m.