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LEFT: ABBY WERTHMAN TAKES CONTROL. BELOW: ZOE HUDSON LOOKS TO PASS.

T he pandemic, however, canceled Corktown’s 2020 season and post poned Michigan State’s fall season until the spring of 2021. Webber played a few games before entering the transfer portal and deciding to go to Indiana soon after Corktown’s season began. After helping Corktown reach the UWS playo s, Webber joined Indi ana and led the Hoosiers in goals last season with ‚ve, including becoming the ‚rst Indiana player to score three goals in a game in nine years. She added an assist and totaled 17 shots. “Being among all this talent has been a great, competitive environment to work on improving my skills,”Webber says. “All of us bring di erent approaches to the game and styles from our college programs which we all bene‚t from.” Hiscock, a mid‚elder, has four goals and an assist in 23 games for the University of Louisville the past two seasons. She also contributed to a Cardinals defense that allowed only 1.69 goals per game last season and is another of this year’s returning players. “I expect Emma to be a big-time player for us,” Flint City AFC coach Aaron Roy says. As gifted as Webber and His cock are, however, they are not even among the eight players on this season’s roster who have made college all-conference teams, ‚ve of whom also earned UWS honors last season. “We have a large, deeply-talent ed player pool to draw from which means we are going to be pretty good,” says Roy, whose team lost its

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ITALA GEMELLI SPLITS THE DEFENDERS.

playo game on penalty kicks last season. “We will always be able to put a talented, competitive lineup on the ‚eld. Our biggest strength will be the ability to defend our goal with such a strong backline and goaltending.” Leading that defense is UWS Midwest Division Defensive Player of the Year Lexy Smith (Ball State), also an overall UWS second team pick last season. She led the squad in minutes

played and was a major reason Cork town gave up only 17 goals in 11 UWS games, including two shutouts. Leading scorer Itala Gemelli (University of Dayton) is also back. She is a two-time Atlantic 10 Confer ence O ensive Player of the Year and ‚nished with 12 goals and 28 points in 17 games for Dayton last season. She also made the UWS third team and Midwest Division ‚rst team. 

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