Box Score BURNSVILLE, Minn. -- Following the Bemidji State University soccer team’s 5-1 season-opening victory, the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference officials have announced that BSU defender, Miranda Famestad, has been selected as Defensive Player of the Week, for her role in the win.
Famestad, a junior from Sioux Falls, S.D., anchored a defensive unit, which held NSIC-rival University of Minnesota Crookston to just four shots in 90 minutes of play, with just two on goal. In addition, she pitched in offensively, recording her first goal of the season, a header off a Raquel Thelen corner kick, in the 13th minute of play. The goal stood as the third game-winning goal of her career.
The NSIC honor is the first of her career and marks the first for the Beavers in 2016.
The Beavers, now 1-0-0 overall and 1-0-0 in NSIC play, is on the road today to open non-conference play at Missouri Western State University. The match is set for a 3 p.m. opening kick.
Nestled in Northern Minnesota’s wooded region and located on the shore of Lake Bemidji, Bemidji State University sponsors 15 varsity athletic programs with NCAA Division I men’s and women’s hockey membership in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, while its 13 NCAA Division II programs hold membership in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC).
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