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Kovler, Jack McBride, Wiedmaier Named First-Team All-Ivy League
May 06, 2009 | Men's Lacrosse
History - and the ability to put the ball in the goal - were on Mark Kovler's and Jack McBride's side. As for Chad Wiedmaier, he made a little history of his own.
Kovler, McBride and Wiedmaier were all named first-team All-Ivy League in men's lacrosse in a vote of league's seven head coaches. Kovler earned the honor for the second time in his career, while Wiedmaier became the first Princeton freshman defenseman and the third Princeton freshman regardless of position ever to be first-team All-Ivy League.
Rich Sgalardi, Tommy Davis and Tyler Fiorito were all named second-team All-Ivy, while Scott MacKenzie and Chris Peyser were honorable mention.
Kovler, a senior midfielder, has 28 goals on the season, and no Princeton midfielder with that many goals has ever not been a first-team All-Ivy selection. It is the second first-team All-Ivy pick for Kovler, who was also first-team as a sophmore and second-team as a freshman. A broken ankle wiped out the last third of his junior year and kept him from All-Ivy honors, but Kovler rebounded with a huge senior year. He currently ranks third all-time among Princeton middies and 14th overall for career goals with 85, and he had at least two goals in eight of 14 games this season.
McBride, a sophomore attackman, leads Princeton with 34 goals and is tied for the team lead with 41 points. He also has a .341 shooting percentage, second-best on the team. McBride was the Ivy League Rookie of the Year a year ago, and like five of the six Princeton Rookies of the Year who preceded him, he went from that honor to first-team All-Ivy as a sophomore.
Wiedmaier has started every game on defense during his rookie season. He leads Princeton with 21 caused turnovers and became an immediate force against all opposing attackmen. Inside Lacrosse ranked Wiedmaier as the No. 2 freshman in Division I; unfortunately, the No. 1-ranked freshman was Cornell's Rob Pannell, who won Ivy Rookie of the Year. Wiedmaier and Pannell have already had one strong matchup against each other, and Round 2 would come in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament if both teams are able to win their opening round games this weekend. The only other Princeton freshmen ever named first-team All-Ivy were goalie Scott Bacigalupo in 1991 and attackman B.J. Prager in 1999.
Sgalardi had seven goals and 11 assists for his first three years combined and then exploded this season with 15 goals and 23 assists for 38 points. He is also the only Princeton player with at least one point in all 14 games.
Davis is tied with McBride for the team lead with 41 points. He also ranks 16th all-time at Princeton with 131 career points, and he is one of seven players in school history with at least 75 career goals and 50 career assists.
Freshman goalie Fiorito started every game this season. He ranks seventh in Division I in goals-against (7.55) and 11th in Division I in save percentage (.588).
MacKenzie, like Sgalardi, eclipsed his previous career totals with a big 2009 season. After having four goals and eight assists for his first two seasons, MacKenzie, the junior midfielder from Montana, had 12 goals and 15 assists this year on the first midfield with Sgalardi and Kovler.
Peyser, a senior, has started every game the last three years on defense and has earned All-Ivy honors all three times. In Princeton's 11-7 win over Brown last weekend that earned a share of the Ivy title, Peyser had three caused turnovers.
Men's Lacrosse All-Ivy ? 2009
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Jordan Burke, Brown (Sr., Potomac, Md.)
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Rob Pannell, Cornell (Fr., Smithtown, N.Y.)
FIRST TEAM
Attack
Thomas Muldoon, Brown (Jr., Oakton, Va.)
Rob Pannell, Cornell (Fr., Smithtown, N.Y.)
Jack McBride, Princeton (So., Madison, N.J.)
Midfield
John Glynn, Cornell (Sr., Lindenhurst, N.Y.)
*Max Seibald, Cornell (Sr., Hewlett, N.Y.)
Mark Kovler, Princeton (Sr., Washington, D.C.)
Defense
Peter Fallon, Brown (So., Baltimore, Md.)
Matt Moyer, Cornell (Sr., Chadds Ford, Pa.)
Chad Wiedmaier, Princeton (Fr., Chatham, N.J.)
Goalie
*Jordan Burke, Brown (Sr., Potomac, Md.)
* unanimous selection
SECOND TEAM
Attack
Andrew Feinberg, Brown (So., Owing Mills, Md.)
Ryan Hurley, Cornell (Jr., Eagan, Minn.)
Craig Andrzejewski, Penn (Sr., Parkton, Md.)
Tom Davis, Princeton (Levittown, N.Y.)
Midfield
Jason Duboe, Harvard (Jr., Long Grove, Ill.)
Rich Sgalardi, Princeton (Garden City, N.Y.)
Mike Karwoski, Yale (Sr., Greenlawn, N.Y.)
Defense
Casey Hingtgen, Dartmouth (Jr., Carlsbad, Calif.)
Sam Slaughter, Harvard (Sr., Wilton, Conn.)
Will Gano, Yale (Sr., Summit, N.J.)
Goalie
Tyler Fiorito, Princeton (Fr., Phoenix, Md.)
HONORABLE MENTION
Attack
Jeff Cohen, Harvard (Fr., Syosset, N.Y.)
Dean Gibbons, Harvard (So., Garden City, N.Y.)
Brendan Gibson, Yale (Jr., Point Lookout, N.Y.)
Midfield
Brady Williams, Brown (Sr., Columbus, Ohio)
Drew Collins, Penn (Sr., LaPlata, Md.)
Scott Mackenzie, Princeton (Jr., Livingston, Mont.)
Defense
Billy Geist, Harvard (Jr., Arnold, Md.)
Chris Peyser, Princeton (Sr., Manhasset, N.Y.)
Goalie
Jake Myers, Cornell (Sr., Del Mar, Calif.)