New for the 2011-2012 seasons, the America East Daily Word, a collaboration between AmericaEast.com and AExtra, will recap the previous day's games and on goings on our nine campuses and provide links to previews, recaps, features and exclusive coverage.
The winter season may be in full swing but always have
time for a little lacrosse news here in the Daily Word.
Inside Lacrosse released its 2012 Face-Off Yearbook
preseason All-American teams as well as its preseason rankings earlier this
week and America East left its footprint all over them.
The Albany women’s lacrosse squad had one of the best
seasons in program history last spring winning its first ever NCAA Tournament
game and finishing the season with a remarkable 18-1 record. It comes as no
surprise, then, that we see the Danes in the IL preseason rankings. They check
in at #15 in the 20-team field. UAlbany’s only loss last year came in the NCAA
Quarterfinals at the hands of the #1 team in the rankings and last year’s
national champion, Northwestern.
Over to the men now, where a handful of conference
standouts cracked the All-American honorable mention list. Vermont junior Drew
Phillie, Albany senior Joe Resetarits, Hartford senior Carter Bender and Stony Brook seniors Robbie Campbell
and Kyle Moeller all saw their names amongst the best players in the nation.
Phillie, a second team all-conference selection in 2011, led UVM with 42 points
on 30 goals and 12 assists. Resetarits tallied 44 points on 31 goals and 13
assists in a first-team all-conference season in 2011. Campbell, a second team
choice in the midfield, scored 17 goals in 2011 while Moeller, a first-team
defender, picked up 45 ground balls and forced 25 turnovers last year. Bender scored 35 goals last season for the conference champion Hawks and was awarded with a second-team all-conference nod.
The men’s teams will have to work their way into the
team rankings, currently on the outside looking in.
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