Complete All-CCC Teams

ASHLAND – The Southern Oregon women's soccer team got recognition worthy of its breakthrough season Thursday night when the All-Cascade Conference teams were announced by the league office.

Senior forward Megan McArthur was named the CCC's offensive player of the year, and Jenni Rosenberg garnered the coach-of-the-year award in a presentation marking the beginning of the conference tournament in Springfield. McArthur was joined by three other Raider seniors on the 14-person first team: midfielder Presley Lambert, goalkeeper Kylie Moltzen and defender Megan Smith. Senior defender Serena Robertson landed on second team, while senior midfielder Lisa Elledge and junior midfielder/forward Kelsey Randall received honorable mention.

Rosenberg, in her third full season as head coach, led the Raiders to a share of their first conference title with a record of 9-2 after they were picked to finish fifth in the preseason. Since starting last year 0-2 in conference play, her teams have gone 16-4.

McArthur is the second offensive player of the year produced by SOU, following in the footsteps of Stephanie Carr, the team's all-time leading scorer who finished her career in 2012. A second-team All-CCC pick in 2014 and a medical redshirt in 2015, McArthur has scored nine goals this season, including six in CCC action and five game-winners. The Raiders are 8-0 when she scores, and she's also added three assists.

Lambert became the eighth Raider ever to be selected to the first team twice and the first midfielder to accomplish the feat since Monica Doshier in 2000-01. After spending time as an attacker due to McArthur's injury in 2015, she moved to holding-midfielder this year and has been a catalyst for SOU's class-of-the-league defense. She's also recorded one goal and a team-high four assists after scoring four goals with one assist last year.

Moltzen, Smith and Robertson have helped shield of that defense, which has didn't allow a non-penalty kick goal in conference play until the final game of the season and stands at a team-record 12 shutouts. Smith and Robertson (who received honorable mention last year) anchored a back line that limited conference opponents to an average of just 3.5 shots on goal per game. Moltzen, meanwhile, finished with a league-high save percentage of .947 in the CCC, allowing just two to slip past. She's totaled 10 solo shutouts and shared two overall this year, breaking her own SOU record.

Elledge and Randall have started every game for the Raiders and kept the offense clicking. Elledge owns three assists and one goal, and Randall has three goals and one assist.

Carroll keeper Jamie Carter was voted defensive player of the year, and Corban forward Holly Martinez was the newcomer of the year.

SOU plays Northwest Christian in the CCC quarterfinals at 11 a.m. Friday.