GENESEO, N.Y. - The Empire 8 announced their weekly honors on Tuesday afternoon, and SUNY Geneseo took home three honors. Ava Harman was named the Field Hockey Offensive Player of the Week, Emily McLouth earned Women's Soccer Defensive Player of the Week honors, and Natalie Pipes rounded out the awards as the Women's Tennis Player of the Week.

Harman led the Knights to a 3-0 start, picking up road wins over Liberty League opponents RPI, Skidmore, and Vassar. Harman was dominant on the offensive end, tallying nine points on three goals and three assists, including the game-winning goal over the Engineers in the season-opener Tuesday. She added a goal and an assist in the win at Skidmore and scored in a 3-2 victory at Vassar.

McLouth recorded two clean sheets in the opening week of the season for the Knights, tying RIT 0-0 and defeating Allegheny 3-0. McLouth faced 17 shots against RIT, and six against Allegheny, recording five saves against the Gators. She added four saves against RIT.

Pipes, the reigning Empire 8 Player of the Year, led Geneseo to three-straight sweeps in the opening week, defeating SUNY Oswego, SUNY Cortland, and E8 opponent Russell Sage College. Pipes defeated her opponent from Oswego 6-2, 6-3, SUNY Cortland, 7-5 6-2, and Russell Sage 6-0 6-0, all at first singles. Pipes also won all three of her doubles matches in the first spot with teammate JoAnn Catalano by scores of 6-2, 6-1, and 6-0, respectively.

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