Four ECAC Players Named to Tewaaraton Watch List
Denver's Dillon Roy, Hobart's Max Sliberlicht and Tyler Cassell, and Loyola's Collin Finnerty have been named to the 2010 Tewaaraton Watch List. The Tewaaraton Award was formally established in August of 2000 and is the pre-eminent lacrosse award, which is given annually to the NCAA men's and women's lacrosse player of the year. Tradition dictates that each year the Tewaaraton Award celebrates one of the six tribal nations of the Iroquois Confederacy: the Mohawk, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, and the Tuscarora. This will be the 10th annual awards ceremony and is the "Year of the Seneca".
Roy has started all three games this season for Denver, collecting 14 groundballs. During the senior defenseman's 2009 campaign, he was selected to the All-GWLL first team in 2009. Starting all 15 games for the Pioneers, he secured 47 ground balls and caused a team-leading 23 turnovers. He won 24 out of 52 face-offs, and tallied two goals and three assists. Roy was named MVP of the Harrow Pioneer Face-Off Classic. Noteworthy appearances in 2009 include securing eight ground balls against Notre Dame (4/11), and causing five turnovers versus Air Force (4/25). During his junior campaign he was an honorable mention preseason All-American.
This season Sliberlicht earned Face-Off Yearbook Preseason All-American honorable mention and Preseason All-ECAC. In 2009 Sliberlicht was an All-ECAC Academic Team member. He broke his own Hobart Division I season record for GAA with a 7.91 that ranked second in the ECAC and 10th in the nation. His .613 save percentage was third in the conference and fifth in the nation. The two-time ECAC Defensive Player of the Week matched his career-high with 18 saves against UMass. Sliberlicht was named the Inside Lacrosse/Nike Player of the Week after stopping 14-of-16 shots against the then 20th-ranked Bison and posted 16 saves in an upset of then No. 11 Georgetown. He also made 16 saves against national runner-up Cornell, blanking the Big Red in the second half.
Cassell was named a preseason All-ECAC member prior to the 2010 season. So far this year, in Hobart's one match Cassell has had four shots, two of which were on goal. During his 2009 season he earned All-ECAC second team honors. Cassell played in all 14 games, starting against Syracuse. He led the Statesmen with 22 goals and six extra-man goals and finished fourth in points. He notched a hat trick at Binghamton and produced a season-high four goals four days later at Providence. He also recorded another hat trick at Penn State.
Finnerty, a team co-captain has begun his 2010 season with six goals and three assists giving him nine points. He's had 21 shots and one man-up goal. In 2009 he started all 14 games for the Greyhounds on attack and finished second on the team in goals (24) and assists (13). Finnerty netted a goal in 11 of Loyola's 14 games and scored a hat-trick on four occasions while scoring four goals three times. Finished ninth in the ECAC with 1.71 goals-per-game and tied for eighth in assists-per-game (0.73).
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