No. 2 Men's Lacrosse Headlines Nine USILA All-America Selections
USILA All-America Teams
BALTIMORE (May 18, 2009) – The United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association announced its selections for the Division II All-America teams and the C.W. Post men's lacrosse team led all schools with nine selections.
Senior attacker Greg Cerar (Massapequa Park, N.Y.) and senior midfielder Matt Dimler (Long Valley, N.J.) along with junior midfielders Bryan Leonard (Yorktown, N.Y.) and Mike Cama (Farmingville, N.Y.) were named First Team.
Senior attacker Dave Loftus (Merrick, N.Y.), junior long-stick midfielder Joe Blount (Lawrence, N.Y.) and senior goalkeeper Daniel Sciulla (Merrick, N.Y.) were named to the Second Team.
Sophomore midfielder
Mike Messina (Sayville, N.Y.) and senior defender
Jon Kology (West Babylon, N.Y.) garnered Honorable Mention honors.
Cerar, Loftus and Sciulla also received the honors of Scholar All-Americans for achieving a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or better.
A third-year All-America selection, Cerar currently leads the nation with an average 5.4 points per game. Cerar, who was named an East Coast All-Conference selection for the fourth consecutive year, leads the Pioneers with 44 goals this year. He has earned seven man-up tallies and dished out 34 assists. Cerar led the ECC with three man-down goals this season to help his team to a 13-1 record.
Dimler has played his best season with the Pioneers in 2009, tallying 36 points on 28 goals and eight assists. He was selected ECC First Team this season.
Selected to the Second Team last season, Leonard is second on the squad with 18 caused turnovers on the defensive end and has two goals and an assist to his credit.
Cama, the Pioneers' face-off specialist, has earned a .692 face-off percentage, while scooping up a team-high 161 ground balls.
An Honorable Mention selection in 2008, Loftus ranks second on the team in scoring with 43 goals and 12 assists. Earlier this season, Loftus registered a hat trick in a 16-12 win against previously undefeated New York Institute of Technology.
Blount leads the team with 20 caused turnovers while scooping up 27 ground balls. He helped out offensively by scoring his only goal this season in a 13-7 win over Adelphi.
Sciulla is currently second in the nation in goals against average (6.10) and saves percentage (.639) this season. He has proved clutch in the cage with an average 9.6 saves a game. Against NYIT, he made a season-high 18 saves and twice has registered 16 saves in a game this season.
Voted last season's ECC Rookie of the Year, Messina has been a big contributor on offense this season with 19 goals and seven assists. He registered a hat trick during the Pioneers' most recent game against Limestone College.
Kology has nabbed 28 ground balls and caused 16 turnovers for C.W. Post. Fellow defender Blount has tallied 25 ground balls and 19 caused turnovers while Schmidt has contributed 26 ground balls, 17 caused turnovers, and two assists.
C.W. Post (14-1) hopes to conclude its season with a win against top-ranked LeMoyne College at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts on May 24 at 3 p.m.