Due to their hard work this past week, both MacKinnon and Jurg were awarded rookie of the week. Courtesy of www.thesportsbusinessexchange.com

Rookie goalkeepers Jessica Jurg and David MacKinnon were both honored with the America East Rookie of the Week awards.

Jurg, shared her award with Mimi Borkan, a goalkeeper from New Hampshire.

MacKinnon was the lone winner on the men’s side.

This past week, Jurg helped the women’s team by earning a pair of shutouts and collecting nine saves.

She also was one of three Hawks to earn All-Tournament accolades at the Fairfield Women’s Soccer Invitational this past weekend.

She led Hartford to a 1-0-1 record for the tournament.

Ever since taking over duties in net, before the start of the Fairfield game, Jurg has yet to allow a goal in 290 minutes with a record of 2-0-1 in that span.

This past tournament at Fairfield, she collected nine saves, five against Holy Cross and four against American, giving her 14 on the year so far.

On the men’s side, MacKinnon also did not allow a goal this past week, playing for a total of 200 minutes and helping the Hawks to a 1-0-1 record and getting his second and third shutout of his career.

This award was Hartford’s first of the season, as MacKinnon combined for seven saves for this week, as five of them came in a 1-0 victory of UMass last Wednesday.

The rookie then made a pair of saves during the Hawks 0-0 stalemate against American this past Friday.

Since he made his college debut in the second half against Villanova on Sept. 3, he has been a force on the pitch.

MacKinnon has stopped all 12 shots on goal that he has faced over a course of 355 minutes.

He is currently tied with three other goalkeepers, and the only freshman on the list, with a 0.00 goals-against average and a 1.000 save percentage.

The rest of the defense, featuring sophomores Jhamie Hyde and Blake Jones, and juniors Damion Lowe and Rohan Roye, have only allowed one goal this year and is own of the nation’s best teams in goals-against average with a 0.18.

That lone goal was scored 355 minutes and 53 seconds ago, when they face Villanova.

Hartford has still yet to lose a game in the 2013 campaign, standing with a record of 3-0-2.

This is the team’s best start based on win percentage after five games since they went 4-0-1 during their Division 1 inaugrual season back in 1984.