Six Selected to North/South Game; Three Land on USILA Scholar All-American Team
NORTH/SOUTH ROSTERS
USILA SCHOLAR ALL-AMERICANS
Six seniors will represent the Empire 8 Sunday at the 73rd annual North-South Senior all-star game, sponsored by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association. The game will be played Sunday, May 25 at 10 a.m. at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, site of the NCAA Division III Championship game.
Stevens Institute of Technology’s Charlie Cronin will play on the South team. Cronin led Stevens this season in goals with 43 as well as man-up scores with 14. He was second on the squad in points at 56 and tallied at least one point in 15 of the Ducks' 16 contests this spring.
Senior attackman Trevar Haefele and senior midfielders Collin Clark and Brian Wright have been selected to compete for the Golden Flyers on the North Team. Joining the Nazareth trio on the North squad will be Ithaca attackman Pat Slawta and midfielder Jake Long.
Haefele played 15 games in 2014 as an attackman and finished with 26 points on 14 goals, 12 assists. Clark was the Golden Flyers' top scoring midfielder with 39 points on 26 goals, 13 assists. Wright was close behind with 34 points on 25 goals, nine assists.
Long tallied 43 points netting 29 goals and dishing out 14 assists in 2014. In 20 games played, he added 16 ground balls and three caused turnovers.
Slawta paced the Bombers with 72 points on a team-best 47 goals and 25 assists. His assist output ranked second on the team and he collected 43 ground balls and forced five turnovers in 20 starts for the Bombers.
Also released were the USILA Scholar All-Americans. Long, Cronin and Stevens Timothy Culloty found a spot on this prestigious list that recognized 105 senior student-athletes from all three NCAA Divisions. A Scholar All-American must be nominated by his coach in their senior academic season and hold a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or higher. These all-around student-athletes must have also been an All-American, chosen to participate in the USILA/LAXWORLD North-South Game, or an all-conference player. A student-athlete worthy of this honor must also behave in a manner that has brought credit to himself, his institution and to college lacrosse both on and off the field.