UAlbany Places Seven Players on All-America East Conference Men's Lacrosse Squad

Courtesy: UAlbany Sports Information

Baltimore, Md. – University at Albany’s Jordan Levine leads a group of seven players who were voted to the 2008 America East All-Conference Men’s Lacrosse Team, as announced on Wednesday, April 30 by the conference office at the tournament championship banquet. Levine became the third UAlbany player to be named to the all-league first team in three consecutive seasons.
Levine, a senior midfielder, is third on the team in scoring with 12 goals and 17 assists. He ranks 23rd nationally in ground balls at 4.57 per game. Levine, who has seven multi-point games this season, has accounted for 109 points (56 goals, 53 assists) and 313 ground balls during his career. He was named to the USILA All-America second team as a junior.

Defenseman Craig McDonald makes his third consecutive appearance on the all-conference squad, and is a member of the first team for the second year in a row. McDonald, who usually marks the other team’s top attacker, leads a unit that is ranked eighth among the NCAA Division I leaders in scoring defense (7.14 goals/game). Brian Caufield is the first UAlbany freshman to earn first-team all-conference recognition. He is 22nd nationally in scoring at 3.36 points per game. Caufield, who also was named to the America East all-rookie squad, has 23 goals and 17 assists heading into the postseason.

Goalkeeper Brett Queener is among four players who were named to the all-conference second team. Queener is ranked among the nation’s leaders in goals against average (7.20) and save percentage (.588). He stopped a season-best 15 shots in last Saturday’s regular-season finale, his 25th game with double-figure saves as a collegian. Queener, a three-time all-league selection, was an USILA honorable mention All-America choice one year ago.

Steve Ammann, Corey Small and Chris Schongar were also on the All-America East second team. Ammann, a senior midfielder who is on the all-league team for the second straight year, had a career-best 23 points (13 goals, 10 assists) this season. Corey Small, a junior attacker, led the team in scoring for most of the year until an injury forced him to miss three games. Small accounted for 28 goals and eight assists. Schongar, a junior long-stick midfielder, collected 45 ground balls.

Defenseman Mike Banks and attackman Joe Pompo join Caufield on the America East all-rookie team. Ammann, who has a 3.86 grade points average in business administration, earned a spot on the conference’s all-academic squad.

UAlbany has produced 30 all-league players since joining the America East Conference in the 2002 season. Levine joins Luke Daquino and Frank Resetarits as three-time first-team selections.