ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. – On Tuesday
morning, Daktronics, Inc. put out its All-East Region Men’s
Soccer Team for Division II, and 27 players across 13 teams fit the
bill. For the second-straight year, the Player of the Year came
from regional powerhouse Franklin Pierce University. Senior
midfielder Diego Tabares (Seekonk, Mass.) brings home the honor,
after accumulating 22 points off of nine goals and four assists. He
is also looking to put the Ravens in the national semifinals
Saturday against Southern New Hampshire University.
From the back line, the first-team defensive unit houses three
players from the East Coast Conference. They are Bridgeport’s
Clayton Ulmer (Hamden, Conn.), Queens’ Danny Stoker (London,
England) and C.W. Post’s Eirik Bjoernoe (Randaberg, Norway).
The other first-team member was last season’s Daktronics East
Region Player of the Year, senior defenseman Tom Reilly (Wallasey,
England), from Franklin Pierce.
In the midfield, Tabares leads the way as the region’s best
player. Joining him are C.W. Post’s Andreas Olson (Oppeid,
Norway), Nyack’s Felix Horn (Halle, Germany) and Southern New
Hampshire’s Ruben Resendes (Fall River, Mass.). Meanwhile, at
forward, the first-team consists of Eivind Austboe (Stavanger,
Norway) in addition to Cemil Turan (Staten Island, N.Y.) of C.W.
Post, Chris Tsonis (Dartmouth, Mass.) of SNHU and
Bloomfield’s Terry Gibbs (London, England), who was a
second-team selection last year.
Between the pipes, Franklin Pierce’s Vinny Papageorgiou
(Wilmington, Mass.) won first-team honors for the second-straight
season. In net, Papageorgiou has a 20-0-1 clip with 58 saves and a
0.51 GAA. Each of these student-athletes is now eligible for the
All-America Team, slated to be released on Wednesday, Nov. 30. The
second-team honorees are listed below as well, capping off the 2011
Daktronics Division II East Region Team.
For more information on the Daktronics East Region Men’s
Soccer program, please contact Sports Information Director Ian
Schraier at Molloy College, through e-mail at ischraier@molloy.edu, or National
Coordinator John Dodderidge of Rockhurst University, who can be
reached at john.dodderidge@rockhurst.edu.
Daktronics
All-East Region Men’s Soccer Team
First-Team
Defense: Tom Reilly, Franklin Pierce
Defense: Clayton Ulmer, Bridgeport
Defense: Danny Stoker, Queens
Defense: Eirik Bjoernoe, C.W. Post
Midfield: Diego Tabares, Franklin Pierce
Midfield: Felix Horn, Nyack
Midfield: Andreas Olson, C.W. Post
Midfield: Ruben Resendes, Southern New Hampshire
Forward: Terry Gibbs, Bloomfield
Forward: Eivind Austboe, C.W. Post
Forward: Chris Tsonis, Southern New Hampshire
Forward: Cemil Turan, C.W. Post
Goalkeeper: Vinny Papageorgiou, Franklin Pierce
Second-Team
Defense: Jon Brockway, Southern New Hampshire
Defense: Jayme Kapinos, Southern New Hampshire
Defense: Hylton Davis, Post
Defense: Weston Zeiner, Bentley
Midfield: Vinny Caccavale, NYIT
Midfield: Remington Lee, St. Thomas Aquinas
Midfield: Juan Ramirez, Bloomfield
Midfield: Daniel Davren, St. Thomas Aquinas
Forward: Seydou Ba, Holy Family
Forward: Markus Naglestad, Bridgeport
Forward: Victor Goncalves, Franklin Pierce
Forward: Matthew DiDonna, NYIT
Goalkeeper: Brandon Heembrock, Dominican
Goalkeeper: Marco Jorgensen, C.W. Post
Player of the Year: Diego Tabares, Midfielder,
Franklin Pierce
Release provided by Daktronics Men's Soccer East Region Coordinator, Ian Schraier, Sports Information Director - Molloy College
