2009-2010 Athletics Awards Banquet

The Frostburg State Athletic Department held its annual awards banquet on Monday night.  Team awards were given out as well as several department wide awards.

(pictured L to R Scott Wasser, Steve Jacobsen, Jamie Flewellyn, Alex Super)

The men's soccer team announced the following winners:

Team MVP - Sean Jones (Sr/Severna Park):  Sean was a three time captain and two time first team All-AMCC award winner.  He led the team in assists his junior and senior seasons.

Offensive MVP - Ricky Marchant (Sr/Walter Johnson):  Ricky was a first team All-AMCC recipient and was tied for the team lead in goals with seven. 

Defensive MVP - Jamie Flewellyn (So/Broadneck): Jamie was a first team All-AMCC recipient and led the Bobcat defense with his aggressive ball winning and athleticisim.

Gilbert Gray Memorial Award - Scott Wasser (So/Heritage):  The Gilbert Gray Award is for the player who exemplifies the desire for excellence in his intellectual, physical, and spiritual selves and his relationship to mankind.

Bobcat Award - Alex Super (Sr/St. Mary's): The Bobcat award is for the player the who exemplifies what it means to be a Bobcat through his work ethic, attitude, and commitment to the team.

Senior Steve Jacobsen also took home the Male Breakthrough Athlete of the Year Award.  Steve played multiple positions his first three years and only started 17 games total.  In his senior year he became a starting striker and ended up leading the team in points (17) and tied for the team lead in goals (7).

2010 Kickin Diabetes

The 2010 “Kickin Diabetes” Tournament was held this past weekend in Cumberland, MD. This has become an annual event run by the Cumberland YMCA and supported by the Frostburg State Men’s soccer team. The event rose close to $900 this year and all donations will be made to the American Diabetes Association through the YMCA.

Congratulations to the FSU Alumni team for winning the tournament. They won all their games in round robin play and finished with the most points on the day. Team members included; Adam Gracia, Brandon Rethemeyer, Dan Simpson, Justin Ports, Greg Bistany, Gregg Laskow, Trevor Havey, Claudio Dias and Bryn Varhol.

Special thanks go out to Alumnus Robert Wise for organizing the event through the YMCA and referees; Joe Enright, Phil Van Newkirk, and Brett Showalter for donating their time to this charity event. Thanks to all the teams that participated in making this a great day of soccer!!

Relay For Life Success

The Men's Soccer team participated in the annual Relay for Life event held on FSU's campus this past weekend.  It is a year long fundraiser that students, faculty and staff particiapte in helping to raise money for the American Cancer Society.  Over 1,000 faculty, staff, and students particiapted in this event and helped raise over $42,000 for the American Cancer Society.

Members of the men's and women's soccer team pose for a photo during the event.

Men's Soccer announces 2010 schedule

The Frostburg State men's soccer team has released its 2010 fall schedule that features eight homes games, including the FSU Tournament in early September and five opponents who participated in post-season play in 2009. The fall season also marks the first year of play in the Capital Athletic Conference for the Bobcats.

We open our season on the road against Bethany on Sept. 1 at 4:30 pm. It's the second-straight year that the FSU-Bethany matchup will be the season opener for both teams. Last season we had to come from behind to post a 3-2 win.

We then begin a small home stand as we host the FSU Kick-off Tournament for the fourth time in the last five years. We will play Wilmington (OH) in the first round on Friday, Sept. 3 at 7:30 pm under the lights at Bobcat Stadium. The opening game of the tournament features Allgheny (PA) and Easten Mennonite (VA) at 5:00 pm. Both the consolation and championship games of the tournament are slated for the following day at 1:30 and 3:30 pm, respectively.

After hosting Shenandoah on Friday, Sept. 10 at 7:00 pm we will then travel to Waynesburg the next day for a 2:00 pm start.

Capital Athletic Conference play will begin on Wed., Sept. 15 when we host Marymount at 5:00 pm. After a trip to Washington & Jefferson on Sept. 18, we host back-to-back CAC opponents; Hood on Tuesday, Sept. 21 at 7:00 pm for the third night game of the season and 2009 CAC Tournament Champion and NCAA tournament participant Salisbury will visit Bobcat Stadium at 2:00 pm on Sat., Sept. 25.

We will end our season with six road games out of the final eight contests. We travel to Lycoming on Tuesday, Sept. 28 and NCAA tournament participant York on Oct. 2 for their Homecoming game.

We are back at home for St. Vincent on Oct. 6 at 7:00 pm for our fourth night game of the season, then we hit the road for a pair of road games against Mary Washington (Oct. 9 - 2:00 pm) and St. Mary's (Oct. 16 - 3:00 pm).

We cap off regular season with a tough stretch against three 2009 ECAC Tournament participants. We travel to Penn State Altoona on Oct. 19 at 7:00 pm, host Wesley on Oct. 23 at 2:00 pm and end the regular season on Sat. Oct. 27 at Stevenson at 3:00 pm.

The CAC Tournament first round starts on Oct. 31 and ends with the championship on Nov. 6.

The Frostburg men's soccer team has finished with 12 or more wins in each of the last three years while making ECAC Tournament appeances in two of the past three seasons.

We are very excited about beginning play in the CAC and look forward to the great competition that the conference offers along with a very competitive non-conference schedule.

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.