Emily Doherty of Shrewsbury, Mass., Claims NEWMAC Women's Soccer Offensive Player of the Week Laurels

2015 Sep 8

Senior Emily Doherty has been named the first NEWMAC Women's Soccer Offensive Player of the Week of the 2015 season. The local product, who was tabbed the WPI Women's Student-Athlete of the Week on Monday, is the first Engineer to take home the league's offensive award since Courtney Langley '14 in September of 2013.

Doherty, the 2014 NEWMAC goal scoring champion, picked up right where she left off with five goals as the Engineers opened the season 3-0. The senior forward reached the 50 point milestone by netting a goal in each half of WPI's 3-1 season-opening victory versus Salve Regina on Tuesday. Doherty was dominant early with a pair of goals in the first 8:04 of a 7-2 triumph over Suffolk Thursday before adding a first half goal in a 5-0 road shutout of Salem State on Saturday.

Women's Soccer heads to reigning ECAC Division III New England champion Framingham State tonight for a 7pm contest.

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