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SOUTH EASTON, Mass. - The American International College women's soccer team landed seven members on the 2013 Northeast-10 All-Conference team announced by the league office Thursday.

Voted on the first team, player of the year junior Sonia Basma (Silver Spring, Md.), senior midfielder Roxy-Lee Stewart (Southampton, England), and senior defender of the year Alie Fitzsimmons (West Springfield, Mass.), and senior forward Caroline Boyce (Canterbury, N.H.)

Basma leads the conference in points (42), goals (916), and assists (10). In her first season at AIC, she has given the Yellow Jackets an offensive spark, while also dishing out to her teammates.

Boyce was sixth in the conference with nine goals and tallied 27 points in her final campaign. She has a superb awareness of the field and for finding her open teammates with nine assists, good for second in the NE-10 behind Basma.

Lee-Stewart has notched five goals and an assist, while helping out on defense with defender of the year and fellow first-teamer Fitzsimmons.

Fitzsimmons has notched a goal and is third in the NE-10 with eight assists. She has helped a strong defensive unit that has only allowed four goals and tallied 15 shutouts.

Second-team honorees include rookie of the year, Jessica Margaretta (Coloniers, France), and defenders Bailey Robinson (Pittsfield, Mass.) and sophomore Romina Bell (Stockerau, Austria).

Margaretta netted three goals and three assists while starting in every game in her first collegiate season. Bell was the most defensive player of the week and netted a penalty kick goal in the quarterfinal match against Assumption.

Robinson has played in every game of her career. This season, along with fellow All-Conference teammates Bell and Fitzsimmons, freshman Hannah Johansdottir (Reykavic, Iceland) and senior Hilary Baker (Rome, N.Y.) have led one of the nation's best defensive units.

The Yellow Jackets host Adelphi Friday, November 8 at 7 p.m. in a Northeast-10 Championship semifinals match at Abdow Field.