John Dettori Named ECAC Metro Offensive Player of the Week for 10/20
2012 ECAC Men's Soccer Players of the Week (for week ending October 20, 2012)
Division III Metro
Offensive Player of the Week
John Dettori – St. Joseph's College – L.I.
Senior, Forward, West Babylon, N.Y.
Dettori scored four goals and added two assists ina 2-1 week for St. Joseph's-L.I. He had two goals and added two assists , including the game winner, in a victory against Mount St. Vincent on October 21. He also tallied a goal on October 18 in the golden Eagles' 2-1 overtime win versus Old Westbury. He also had the team's lone goal in a 3-1 loss to William Patterson on October 16.
Defensive Player of the Week
Angelo Viteritti – Farmingdale State
Junior, Goalkeeper, East Northport, N.Y.
Viteritti recorded a pair of shutouts while notching 10 saves as Farmingdale State posted victories over Maritime (1-0) and Sage (2-0). He registered four saves against Maritime and six versus the Gators. Viteritti leads the conference in shutouts with eight, and in save percentage (.871).
Division III New England
Offensive Player of the Week
John Murphy – Bates College
Senior, Midfielder, Yarmouth, Maine
Murphy exploded for seven points in a perfect 2-0 week for the Bobcats. The midfielder piled up three goals and two assists in his team's 5-1 victory at Southern Maine on Wednesday. He followed that up with two more tallies in a 2-0 triumph at Middlebury on Saturday. In the process, he lifted Bates to its first conference win since October of 2010.
Defensive Player of the Week
Jackson Klein – Babson College
Junior, Goalkeeper, Maplewood, N.J.
Klein was magnificent in goal in back-to-back double-overtime shutouts as Babson went 1-0-1 this week. On Saturday, the junior keeper made six saves in 110 minutes of action to earn his third shutout of the year in a 0-0 tie with Springfield. Then on Sunday, Klein made four more stops, including a critical diving save early in the second half and another key stop in overtime, as the Beavers handed 20th-ranked Eastern Connecticut State its first loss of the season, 1-0, in double-OT. For the week Klein went 1-0-1 with two shutouts, 10 saves, a 1.000 save percentage, and a 0.00 GAA in just over 211 minutes.
Division III Upstate
Offensive Player of the Week
Harrison Lane – SUNY New Paltz
Senior, Forward, Glenmont, N.Y.
Lane posted a career-high four goals on Saturday, Oct. 20, in a 5-0 win that pushed New Paltz into the SUNYAC Tournament. The four-goal game capped off a five-goal weekend that included two crucial conference wins in the Hawks' run to the postseason. Lane scored the first goal in the Hawks' Oct. 19 victory over Buffalo State. Though he did not score in New Paltz's non-conference win over Hunter College on Monday, Oct. 15, he added six shots, two of which were on target.
Defensive Player of the Week
Eli Kisselbach – Skidmore College
Freshman, Goalkeeper, Stamford, Conn.
Kisselbach posted two league road shutouts. The first was a double OT 0-0 shutout at league leader RPI against which he had nine saves. He had one save in 1-0 OT shutout at Clarkson. He now has eight shutouts for the season.
Division III South
Offensive Player of the Week
Adrian Tombini – Salisbury University
Senior, Forward, Olney, Md.
Tombini scored a goal in each SU victory this week, helping the Gulls clinch the regular-season crown and top seed in the 2012 Colonial Athletic Conference playoffs. He tallied the first insurance goal in the 60th minute of Salisbury's midweek win at Wesley, and then scored the game-winning goal to break a 1-1 tie in the 55th minute against St. Mary's.
Defensive Player of the Week
Kevin Dhillon – Medialle College
Senior, Defense, Toronto, Ont.
Dhillon anchored a backline that held Pitt-Greensburg to just three shots on goal as Medaille registered its 10th shutout of the season. The win also secured a first-round bye in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference playoffs for the Mavericks.
