Three Bobcats Earn First Team All-AMCC Honors

Frostburg State University seniors Sean Jones (Pasadena, Md./Severna Park) and Ricky Marchant (Rockville, Md./Walter Johnson) and sophomore Jamie Flewellyn (Arnold, Md./Broadneck) earned All-Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference First Team honors after helping the Bobcats to their eighth-straight AMCC Tournament semifinal appearance. Junior Raul Diaz (Clarksburg, Md./Damascus) was the fourth Bobcat all-conference selection, earning honorable mention honors.
(Pictured in order: Sean Jones, Ricky Marchant, and Jamie Flewellyn)

Jones, a three-time All-AMCC honoree, earned his second-straight first team selection. Jones led the team in assists (6) and finished fourth in points (16) and fifth in goals (5). He was tied for eighth in the conference in points per game (1.00). Jones is just the eighth player in school history to earn back-to-back All-AMCC first teams honors.

Marchant, a second-team all-conference honoree in 2008 as a forward, tied for the team lead with seven goals, while splitting time between mid-field and forward this year. He also finished tied for second on the team in points (16) with Jones.

Flewellyn started 20 games a centerback and helped an FSU defense that held opponents to a 1.32 goals against average. He also scored three goals on the season from his defensive position.

Diaz, in his first year with the Bobcats, handed out three assists in 19 games this fall while playing mid-field, but was moved to outside back during the beginning of conference play.

FSU has totaled 69 all-conference selections in 13 seasons in the AMCC.

Congratulations Sean, Ricky, Jamie and Raul

Season Comes to an End

Our season came to an end Wednesday night in Buffalo as we lost 3-0 to #1 seed Medaille College in the AMCC semi-finals.  We finished the season with a 12-7-1 record and won 8 of our last 9 games down the stretch to close at the season.

We lost to a very good team on Wednesday.  We would have needed to play a complete game in all areas of the field for 90 minutes to beat them and we didn't do that.  We started the game very sloppily with a lot of fouls and wasted passes, but by the 15 minute mark we had settled in and began to make it more of a game that we could compete in.  Medaille would score in the 34th minute off a low shot to the corner of the goal and I thnk that shook us a little becasue by the 44th minute it was 3-0.

I was proud of the boys for not quitting and still fighting in the second half and working to get a goal back.  We actually did have a few good scoring opportunities that could have opened up the game, but their keeper was strong and kept the shutout. We let all 8 seniors finish out the game and to their credit they played with pride until the final whistle blew.

We did not declare for the ECAC tournament this year and although I think our record would be strong enough to get us in our season ended Wednesday night. 

We have been hard at work already and our excited about the potential of our 2010 recruiting class.  We are looking forward to getting on the road these next few weekends to evaluate some more players and put a class together that will allow us to compete immediately in the highly competitive Capital Athletic Conference next year.

Impressive Win

We put together one of our most impressive performances of the season as we knoocked La Roche College out of the playoffs Saturday night with a 6-1win.  It was just two weeks ago that we had to go to double overtime to defeat La Roche 2-1.

Freshman Brian Davis (pictured) played a very strong game up top and got us on the board in the 28th minute.  Steve Jacobsen, who now leads the team in points (17) and is tied for the lead in goals, scored his 7th of the season to put us up 2-0 just 11 minutes into the second half.  Senior Michael Bowers and freshman Shawn Baker would put the game out of reach after scoring back to back goals less than a minute a part in the 65th minute.  Senior Greg Bistany and Sophomore Michael Hurst would round out the scoring on the day.

We are now off to Buffalo to face #1 seed Medaille College on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m at All High Stadium.  We are definitely playing our best soccer right now and look forward to the challenge of knocking off the defending champs.