STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford swept MPSF/Kap7 weekly honors on Tuesday when junior Makenzie Fischer was named the league's player of the week and freshman Chloe Harbilas its top newcomer.
In its first two weeks of the season, the Cardinal has won the four available conference awards. Fischer was also voted player of the week last Tuesday while Madison Stamen collected that newcomer of the week nod. This go-around, Fischer dominated at the offensive end of the pool while Harbilas was recognized for her lockdown defense at the other.
Fischer poured in 18 goals in the Cardinal's three victories over No. 8 Michigan (21-9), No. 19 Indiana (25-4) and No. 4 Cal (17-10). She had a career-high eight in Stanford's rout of the Wolverines to kick off its home tournament on Saturday morning, one off the MPSF single-game record and the most for a Cardinal since 2009.
The junior followed that up with six scores in Stanford's conference opener against Indiana, a 25-4 win on Saturday afternoon, her third in a row with at least six goals. She closed the weekend with a four-goal outing in Stanford's 17-10 win over No. 4 Cal.
Fischer has multi-goal efforts in each of Stanford's six games this season and is averaging an eye-popping 4.8 goals per game thus far (29 total goals). Her final strike against the Golden Bears was also the 150th of her career, putting her 21 away from Stanford's all-time top 10.
While Fischer was a scoring machine, freshman Chloe Harbilas hounded Stanford's two-meter opponents all weekend, holding Michigan, Indiana and Cal to a combined 8-of-29 (27.6 perecnt) on power plays. The Cardinal's 5-on-6 stopper also added a pair of goals in the MPSF opener against the Hoosiers.
Stanford (6-0) is back in the water next Thursday, Feb. 14 when it hosts the Chinese National Team in an exhibition at 4:30 p.m.
