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MEADVILLE, Pa. -- The Allegheny department of athletics is pleased to announce the members of the Allegheny College Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2019, which will feature two individual standouts and a top team from the 1960s.

Former student-athletes Emily Deering Crosby '06 (women's lacrosse) and Lauren Moser '04 (women's soccer) will be enshrined alongside the 1968 Football team. Also joining the three inductees at the official ceremony, which will take place at a banquet in Schultz Hall on campus on the evening of Friday, Sept. 20, will be 2018 inductee Liz Earley '08 (track & field).

One of the top lacrosse players to ever wear a Gators uniform, Emily Deering Crosby graduated as the Allegheny women's lacrosse all-time leader in both points (144) and goals (123). The only player in program history to be named all-region four times, Crosby was a three-time, first-team all-region selection (2003, '04 and '06), and a 2005 second-team honoree. Following a senior campaign in which she led the Gators to a then-school record nine wins and appearance in the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) championship, Crosby earned the 2006 NCAC Defensive Player of the Year award after ranking in the top four in the conference in draw controls (2.25 per game), ground balls (3.81 per game) and caused turnovers (3.19 per game). She remains one of just two lacrosse players in school history to be a four-time, first-team All-NCAC selection.

Just 10 Allegheny women's soccer players can lay claim to the honor of being a National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) (now United Soccer Coaches) All-American, but Lauren Moser is one of them. She received the honor following her senior season of 2003, in which she helped anchor a Gators' defense that yielded just eight goals in 19 games, finishing ninth in NCAA Division III that year with a .409 goals-against average. That season, Moser pulled down all-region honors and her third All-NCAC accolade, as she was named to the first team. As a junior in 2002, Moser picked up second-team All-NCAC laurels and was an honorable mention pick as a sophomore in 2001. In her four-year career in Blue & Gold, she helped Allegheny to a 59-17-4 overall record, including 26-6-1 in the NCAC. A converted three-year defender after beginning her career in the midfield, Moser's squads posted 41 shutouts in her four seasons, including a school-record tying 14 during her junior season in 2002. She finished her career with nine goals and 11 assists for 29 points.

The 1968 football team claimed the second of Allegheny's three outright (four total) Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) championships, one of 13 overall league titles in program history (nine NCAC). The Gators finished that campaign with a 7-1 overall record and an unblemished 6-0 mark in league play. That 6-0 PAC record marked the only time in the 25 years of PAC football for Allegheny that the Gators were undefeated in league play. At the time, the seven wins equaled the program record for most in a season, matching a mark that had happened just four times for a team that began competing in 1893 (1899, 1902, '13 and '23). Five players were tabbed with First Team All-PAC honors that season: OG Plete Blaufarb, QB Mike Ganey, DB Jay Lewis, OE Colin Smith and OT Jim Stover. Ganey, Lewis, Stover and halfback John Boughton were inducted into the Allegheny Hall of Fame as players, while head coach John Chuckran and assistant coach Bob Garbark received the same recognition as coaches. Ganey was the school's all-time career record holder for passing yards, completions and touchdown passes for at least 23 years and can still be found in the record books, as can Boughton (career receptions) and Lewis (career touchdown receptions).

A four-time All-American and 12-time conference champion, Liz Earley remains the most dominant thrower in the history of the Gator women's track and field program. Earley's top event throughout her career was the hammer throw, as she won NCAC titles in each of her four years, while picking up All-America honors with a fourth-place finish at the 2007 NCAA Outdoor Championships and a second-place finish a season later. In the shot put, she earned All-NCAC accolades during the indoor and outdoor seasons in all four of her years, winning the conference indoor and outdoor titles in both 2007 and '08. In the discus, she was named All-NCAC in each of her final three seasons, capturing conference gold as a sophomore in 2006. Earley also excelled at the weight throw, twice earning All-America honors in the event with a fifth-place finish at the 2007 NCAA Indoor Championships and a third-place performance in 2008. The 2007-08 Allegheny Female Athlete of the Year, Earley was also named the NCAC Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year in both 2007 and 2008. Eleven years after graduating, she remains the school's all-time record holder in both the hammer throw (55.62 meters) and the weight throw (17.00 meters), while she ranks third in the shot put, and fifth in the discus. In 2014, she was named to the NCAC's 30th Anniversary Outdoor Track and Field All-Decade Team, which recognized the top athletes in the conference between the years 2003-12. Earley was unable to attend the 2018 induction ceremony and will receive formal enshrinement with the Class of 2019.

Along with the banquet on Friday night, the Hall of Fame inductees will be introduced to the crowd at halftime of Allegheny's 2019 football home opener on Saturday, Sept. 21, when the Gators host Wabash at 1 p.m. at Frank B. Fuhrer Field.

For more information on the 2019 Allegheny Athletic Hall of Fame Banquet on Friday, Sept. 20, or to reserve your tickets, please contact Manager of Athletic Operations, Nikki Newman, at nnewman@allegheny.edu.