Elgin, Ill.- For the first time this season, Judson University swept the women’s soccer weekly awards. Both senior Samantha Vestal (Bakersfield, Calif.) and sophomore Alice Phoneprasith (Elgin, Ill.) were given the awards.

This is the third time in four weeks that Phoneprasith has been given the Defensive “Player of the Week” award. She recorded back-to-back shutouts in the CCAC Tournament to help JU to their first-ever CCAC Tournament Championship. JU defeated #6 St. Xavier, 0-0, in a shootout, 3-2.

In the shootout, she saved two of the shots on goal. In that same match, she recorded a career-high 14 saves. In the championship match, she had three saves with all three coming at key times in the match vs. Robert Morris. In eight games played this season, she has allowed just four goals in 626 minutes (0.57 goals-against average) and has not been scored upon in her last 246 minutes.

Vestal, who was named the NCCAA National Player of the Week last week, picked up her first CCAC Player of the Week award. In the semi-final and championship matches, she was a key contributor in the wins. Against SXU in the semi-finals, she converted the first penalty kick to give JU the 1-0 advantage. Then, in the championship match, she scored both goals in the first half of a 2-0 win over Robert Morris. Overall, she scored three of Judson’s five goals in the CCAC Tournament.

Judson will now play Trinity Christian in the NAIA Region VII Tournament on Friday, November 2^nd, at 3:30 p.m. in Des Moines, Iowa.