The USA South Athletic Conference has released the seventh Player of the Week listing for the fall with five Piedmont athletes earning awards this week.
Both soccer programs were represented as Nathan Metzger earned Men's Soccer Defensive Player of the Week and Savannah Castles took Women's Soccer Player of the Week. Haley Hixon earned Volleyball Defensive Player of the Week while women's cross country swept the weekly awards as Reese Bowles took Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week and Casey Todd was named Women's Cross Country Rookie of the Week.
For both cross country athletes, this marks the fourth time earning each of their respective honors this year while this is Hixon's second honor of the season and both soccer player's first time on the listing in 2016.
Metzger notched his third goal of the season over the weekend with the game winner against Ferrum 3-2 in OT in thrilling fashion. The sophomore defender connected on a corner kick by Jose Linares for the golden goal sending Piedmont into a frenzy on the field.
Castles also picked up a game winner over the weekend in a 1-0 contest against LaGrange netting the only score of the afternoon in the 59th minute. The senior from Helen, Georgia leads the team with eight goals scored in 2016 on 13 shots on goal.
Hixon took Defensive Player of the Week honors for the second straight week after a 3-0 week for the Lady Lions as the sophomore posted 16 or more digs in each of the three matches. Her best performance of the week came against Huntingdon as she posted 26 digs, her third-highest total of the season.
Bowles once again led the Lady Lion cross country team as they were in action at the Berry College Invitational in the 2016 regular season finale. The junior ran a 23:54 and came in 16th overall as the third DIII athlete across the line. Todd was again the top freshman for Piedmont as she posted a 25:01 at the Berry College Invitational coming across the line as the top freshman among USA South competitors.
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