After anchoring a Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ defense that recorded a pair of shutouts, senior Ben Hunt of the Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ men’s soccer team was selected as the Conference USA Defensive Player of the Week Monday. Hunt and the Knights capped the week with a 1-0 victory over No. 17 SMU Sunday that snapped the Mustangs’ nine-game unbeaten streak.<\/p>\n
The senior center back logged all 200 minutes in a pair of matches for the Knights last week. Against the Mustangs, he helped limit SMU to seven shots, with only two coming on goal. With the host Knights leading 1-0 late in the game, Hunt made an impressive play after the Mustangs’ Brendan Lee got past Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ keeper Sebastian Evers in the box. With Lee crossing the ball to an open teammate with an empty net, Hunt moved in and knocked the ball away.<\/p>\n
Hunt also logged all 110 minutes in a scoreless draw with local rival Stetson. The Hatters mustered nine shots during the double-overtime match, with only one coming on goal.<\/p>\n
This is the first C-USA Player of the Week honor for Hunt. A native of Bucklands Beach, New Zealand, Hunt has started all 12 matches in 2012 for the Knights, and leads the team with 1,135 minutes.<\/p>\n
Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ will return to action Sunday at No. 30 Tulsa. The Knights’ next home game is set for Oct. 24 against Memphis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After anchoring a Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ defense that recorded a pair of shutouts, senior Ben Hunt of the Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ men’s soccer team was selected as the Conference USA Defensive Player of the Week Monday. Hunt and the Knights capped the week with a 1-0 victory over No. 17 SMU Sunday that snapped the Mustangs’ nine-game unbeaten streak. The senior center back logged…","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":41997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[448,3346,4321,202],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-41996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ben-hunt","tag-ncaa","tag-soccer","tag-alumni"],"yoast_head":"\n