CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Albany's Brett Queener (Penn Yan, N.Y./Penn Yan Academy) has been named America East Men's Lacrosse Player of the Week for the first time this season, while Stony Brook's Jordan McBride (New Westminster, British Columbia/New Westminster) earned his third Rookie of the Week honor of the season. The final weekly awards for 2008 were announced on April 28. View the complete Weekly Release in PDF format
Queener, a senior goalkeeper, recorded a season-high 15 saves and grabbed eight ground balls to lead the Great Danes to a 10-7 win over Stony Brook on Saturday. Queener also scored a goal, his first with the goalie stick since March 11, 2006. The win gave Albany the No. 2 seed for the America East Championship, which begins on Thursday at UMBC. A first-team all-conference selection in 2007, Queener ranks among national leaders with a .588 save percentage.
McBride, a freshman attack, recorded seven points and scored six goals in a pair of games last week. He scored four times against Albany on Saturday, including three in the game's first 16 minutes to stake the Seawolves to an early 4-0 lead. McBride leads America East with 43 goals and 54 points on the season.
Team-By-Team Notebook
Albany (7-7, 4-1 America East) earned the second seed for this week’s America East Championship with a 10-7 victory over Stony Brook on April 26... The Great Danes, who have won 19 of their last 20 at home, climbed back to the .500 mark for the second time this season after starting with five consecutive losses... goalkeeper Brett Queener (Penn Yan, N.Y. / Penn Yan Academy) went out in style in his final home appearance before a season-best crowd of 1,247... Queener, one of 11 seniors on the squad, made 10 of his season-high 15 saves in the opening two periods, and then tied the contest at five apiece with 1:25 left in the second quarter... Queener, who scored with a goalie stick for the first time since March 11, 2006, started a transition play near his crease and finished off the sequence by firing shot between the goalkeeper’s legs... Queener made double-figure saves for eighth time this year... Jordan Levine (Bethpage, N.Y. / Bethpage) had one goal and a career-high four assists and set-up Queener’s tying goal... freshman attack Brian Caufield (Bay Shore, N.Y. / West Islip) finished with one goal and a career-best three assists... Caufield has tallied three or more points in six of his last seven starts and now leads the team in scoring at 3.36 points per game... freshman Joe Pompo (Syracuse, N.Y. / West Genesee) has picked up the slack for injured starter Corey Small (St. Catharines, Ontario / Holy Cross)... Pompo, who equaled a career-best with three goals vs. Stony Brook, has seven points over his last three outings... Nate Sullivan (Gilbert, Ariz. / Mesquite) netted his league-leading eighth man-up goal of the season...UAlbany is ranked eighth nationally in scoring defense at 7.14 goals per game... The Great Danes have a 10-2 record in America East postseason play since joining the conference in 2001-02...
Binghamton (4-7, 2-3 America East) is in the America East Tournament for the fifth consecutive season. The Bearcats face top-seeded and host UMBC at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. Binghamton's last tournament win was a 7-6 overtime win over Stony Brook in the 2004 seminfinals ... sophomore attack Andy Cook (Vestal, N.Y./Vestal) has eight goals in his last four games. He has scored in each of the past four games and has recorded a pair of hat tricks in the process ... Binghamton's defense has allowed an average of 5.40 goals per game the last three games.
Hartford (0-13,0-5 America East) lost its regular season finale to Binghamton over the weekend by a 10-5 final. Sophomore Justin Bearse (Hyannis, Mass./Barnstable) scored a pair of goals while freshman Michael Cudmore (Ashburn, Ontario/All Saints Catholic) added a goal and an assist... The Hawks finished the season without a win for only the second time in their Division I history (2004)... Bearse led the team in scoring on the year with 15 goals and five assists for 20 points. Senior Brian Tilley (Lake Ronkonkoma, N.Y./St. Anthony's) and junior Jacob Eustice (Orchard Park, N.Y./Orchard Park) each finished with 19 points, the former with 15 goals and four assists and the latter with 10 goals and nine assists. Cudmore tallied a team-high 13 assists and added five goals for 18 points.
Fifth-ranked UMBC (10-3, 5-0 America East) won its school record ninth straight game and completed a sweep in America East Conference play with a hard-earned 8-6 victory at Vermont... UMBC improved to 10-3 overall and 5-0 in the America East Conference... The Retrievers posted their third consecutive 10-plus win season, also a new school record... Senior midfielder Terry Kimener (Oakton, Va./Oakton) and junior attackman Ryan Smith (Fallston, Md./Fallston/CCBC-Essex) led the Retrievers with two goals and an assist each... Freshman attackman Dom Scalzo (Webster, N.Yl/Webster Thomas) added a pair of goals for UMBC... The Retrievers led, 6-5 at intermission, but Vermont scored an extra-man goal 15 seconds in the third quarter...But UMBC would shut the door on the Catamounts the final 29:45... Smith would get the game winning goal on an unassisted score with 4:45 to play in the third stanza and sophomore attackman Matt Latham added an insurance marker with 1:10 remaining...UMBC outshot Vermont, 31-20 as Retriever netminder Jeremy Blevins (Cockeysville, Md./Calvert Hall) recorded seven saves... UMBC outscored UVM, 4-1 and secured a 6-5 halftime advantage... Scalzo scored both of his goals in this run and freshman Bobby Stockton (Ponte Vedre, Fla./Nease) scored the go-ahead goal with 4:05 to play in the half... The top-seeded Retrievers will face fourth-seeded Binghamton in Thursday’s second America East semifinal match-up at 7:30 p.m...UMBC was also a perfect 5-0 in America East play in 2006 and would go on to win their lone tournament title at UMBC Stadium... Kimener has a 22-game scoring streak and has multiple points in 11 consecutive games... UMBC is 23-4 all-time in America East Conference play, including 10-3 on the road... The Retrievers have won (2006, 2008) outright or shared (2005, 2007) the last four regular season America East titles.
Stony Brook’s (7-6, 2-3 America East) two straight losses is the first time that the Seawolves have dropped consecutive games since the start of the season ... Stony Brook finished the regular season with at least 10 goals in 10 of the 13 games ... the Seawolves have already scored 43 more goals than they did a year ago ... over the two games last week there were a total of 10 ties during the games ... Stony Brook’s six losses have come by a total of 12 goals ... Bo Tripodi now has 114 lifetime goals at Stony Brook to move into second all-time at Stony Brook ... Stony Brook and Albany will play in the America East Tournament for a fourth consecutive year this week ... with 102 points between them, Kevin Crowley and Jordan McBride are the top freshman scoring tandem in the nation in NCAA Division I ... McBride’s 43 goals are tied for 6th on the Stony Brook single-season list ... Rhys Duch’s 26 assists this season are more than he totaled in his previous three seasons combined ... Stony Brook’s five wins at home this season are the most for the team since the 2004 season.
Vermont (5-11, 1-4 America East) earned a 9-6 win at Holy Cross on Tuesday and dropped a hard-fought 8-6 decision against No. 5 UMBC at Moulton Winder Field on Saturday ... Senior Trevor Wagar (Guelph, Ontario/Our Lady of Loundes/Herkimer) matched a UVM single-game record with eight goals in the win against Holy Cross ... Wagar’s eight goals matched Scott Chace and Craig Myatt for the UVM single-game record ... Chace scored eight goals on two occasions: against New Hampshire College on April 30, 1983 and against LeHigh on March 24, 1984 ... Myatt scored eight times against Norwich on April 20, 1985 ... Wagar finished the season ranked second on the team in scoring with 15 goals and 21 points ... Freshman Derek Lichtfuss (Lutherville, Md./St. Paul’s) scored two goals and had two assists on the week to extend his scoring streak to 10 games ... Lichtfuss finished the season first on the team in scoring with 21 goals and 29 points ... Vermont hung tough against UMBC, the America East regular season champion, on Saturday as the Catamounts tied the game 6-6 early in the second half on a man-up goal by sophomore Ryan Gillette (Lowville, N.Y./Lowville Academy) ... The Retrievers scored late in the third to take a 7-6 lead and scored again with 70 seconds left in the contest to extend their winning streak to nine games ... Junior Luke LaBranche (Cold Springs Harbor, N.Y./Hill) went 12-for-17 on face offs and had a team-high six ground balls in the loss to UMBC ... Vermont honored its nine seniors before Saturday’s game in their final contest at Moulton Winder Field ... Shay Cunningham (Southborough, Mass./Southborough), Andrew Goldfarb (Kotonah, N.Y./John Jay), Andrew Holden (Glastonbury, Conn./Glastonbury), Justin Lubas (Freehold, N.J./Christian Brothers Academy), Clayton Phillips-Dorsett (Manchester, Vt./New Hampton Prep), Zach Shearon (Amber, Pa./Germantown Academy), Aaron Shore (Ithaca, N.Y./Ithaca), Collin Shore (Ithaca, N.Y./Ithaca) and Trevor Wagar were all recognized.