Felician College Women’s Soccer Team 
First-Time Conference Champs

Rutherford , N.J. – The women’s soccer program at Felician College has had a tremendous season.  In only its fifth season of intercollegiate competition, the Lady Golden Falcons finished the regular season with a record of 13-1-2 overall and 8-0-2 in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) earning them their first ever conference championship.  With a double overtime, the team won 1-0 in the semi-final round of the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference tournament against Dominican College on October 31, 2001 .  The women lost in the final round of the Conference tournament against Holy Family on November 3.   They now move into the NAIA Region X Tournament and will compete against Green Mountain on November 9 in the semi-final round to be held at Holy Family College in Philadelphia .     

Player Honors

The post-season accolades have already begun for the Lady Golden Falcons as two members of the team were awarded 1^st Team All-Conference selection. Junior forward Anna Bartsch from Hewitt , N.J. , and junior forward Valerie Esposito from Clifton , N.J. , received their honors on Sunday, October 28.  Bartsch, a graduate of West Milford High School , is the team leader with 13 goals scored and 32 total points.  Bartsch received the highest total votes earning her Player of the Year honors.  Esposito, a graduate of Saint Mary’s ( Rutherford ) High School, was an All-Conference selection last season, and she has tallied seven goals and seven assists.  Her season was cut short by an ankle injury that was suffered while competing against Molloy College on October 23.  Senior forward, Soledad Cine, of Miami , Fl, was named Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Player of the Week for the week of October 21-27.  She scored four goals and one assist in the Golden Falcons’ victories over Molloy College and New Jersey Institute of Technology.  In the win over N.J.I.T., Cine scored three goals to enable Felician to clinch the regular season title.

Head Coach Ben “JR” DiNallo was named CACC Coach of the Year.  DiNallo, a former coach at Immaculate Heart Academy and the Academy of the Holy Angles High Schools, is in his fourth year coaching Felician’s Lady Golden Falcons and has amassed an overall record of 43-25-3.