{"id":8847,"date":"2011-10-10T16:25:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T20:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=8847"},"modified":"2011-10-19T10:32:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T14:32:10","slug":"leap-named-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2011\/leap-named-player-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Leap Named Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>For the second time this season, Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) forward <a title=\"blocked::http:\/\/emuroyals.com\/sports\/msoc\/2011-12\/bios\/leap mitchell wpt4\" href=\"http:\/\/emuroyals.com\/sports\/msoc\/2011-12\/bios\/leap%20mitchell%20wpt4\">Mitchell Leap<\/a> (Harrisonburg, VA\/Eastern Mennonite) has been named the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Player of the Week.\u00a0 Leap also took the men&#8217;s soccer honor two weeks ago.\u00a0 This is the fifth time in his career he has won the award.<\/div>\n<p>The senior was involved in both game-winning goals last week as the Royals took over first place in the ODAC standings.\u00a0 In Wednesday&#8217;s dramatic win over Hampden-Sydney, Leap assisted on <a title=\"blocked::http:\/\/emuroyals.com\/sports\/msoc\/2011-12\/bios\/musau muoka q1sd\" href=\"http:\/\/emuroyals.com\/sports\/msoc\/2011-12\/bios\/musau%20muoka%20q1sd\">Muoka Musau<\/a>&#8216;s (Ashburn, VA\/Stone Bridge) game-winning goal in the 69<sup>th<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n<p>Then on Saturday, Leap scored the game-winner in the 77<sup>th<\/sup> minute on a breakaway shot from the 18.<\/p>\n<p>He is tied for second in the ODAC with eight goals and is second with 18 points.\u00a0 Leap also tops the league with five game-winning goals.\u00a0 The forward is on top of all three categories in ODAC-only games.<\/p>\n<p>With the goal at Guilford, Leap took over sole possession of fourth place on EMU&#8217;s Career Goals list at 33, ahead of Jeff Shank (1990-93).\u00a0 His 75 career points has him fifth on that list, behind Shank&#8217;s 86.<\/p>\n<p>Eastern Mennonite grabbed first place in the ODAC standings last week with wins over Hampden-Sydney and Guilford.\u00a0 The Royals, 5-1, have as many wins in ODAC play as they have had since going 7-1-1 in 1998, which is the last time they won the conference tourney.<\/p>\n<p>The men, now 7-6-1 overall, are off until they host Virginia Wesleyan Saturday night as part of EMU&#8217;s Homecoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time this season, Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) forward Mitchell Leap (Harrisonburg, VA\/Eastern Mennonite) has been named the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Player of the Week.\u00a0 Leap <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2011\/leap-named-player-of-the-week\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Leap Named Player of the Week<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":8848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4516,5681],"tags":[13896,11598,11613,11672],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-8847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-mens-soccer","tag-jeff-shank","tag-mitchell-leap","tag-muoka-musau","tag-odac"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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