11/13/2009 12:00:00 AM | Men's Soccer
Nov. 13, 2009
Boiling Springs N.C.- Coastal Carolina men's soccer midfielder Djamel Bekka was named the 2009 Big South Men's Soccer Player of the Year as eight Chanticleers earned All-Conference Honors, announced tonight (Nov. 13) during the 2009 Men's Soccer Championship.
Bekka captained the Chanticleers to its ninth Big South Regular Season Championship as he posted six assists, one goal and eight points on the season. He posted a multi-assist match with two helpers in Coastal Carolina's 2-1 win over Asheville on Oct. 31. Against Radford, Bekka scored a goal and assisted on another to give the Chants the 3-1 win over the Highlanders. He also assisted on the game-winning goal in a 1-0 win over VMI.
Selected to the All-Conference First Team were defender Alex Russell and goalkeeper Scott Angevine. Midfielders Matt Schroeder and James Stapleton were named to the All-Conference Second Team.
Picking up honors on the All-Conference Freshman team were midfielder Luis Faz and freshman Sean McCormick. Robert Hunter was also named to the All-Academic team.
High Point Head Coach Dustin Fonder was named Coach of the Year, and High Point Shawn Sloan was selected as Freshman of the Year. Gardner-Webb Goalkeeper Trent Kozman garnered Scholar-Athlete of the Year honor.
The top-seeded Chanticleers beat No. 8 VMI tonight 1-0 and will play tomorrow, Nov. 14 against Winthrop in the semifinals at 4 p.m.
Player of the Year
Djamel Bekka, Coastal Carolina
Freshman of the Year
Shawn Sloan, High Point
Coach of the Year
Dustin Fonder, High Point
Scholar-Athlete of the Year
Trent Kozman, Gardner-Webb
FIRST TEAM ALL-BIG SOUTH
Forwards
Matt Skonicki, Winthrop
Gerard Hefferon, Gardner-Webb
Darren Amoo, Liberty
Midfielders
Djamel Bekka, Coastal Carolina
Stephen Nsereko, Winthrop
Michael Luk, Winthrop
Shawn Sloan, High Point
Defenders
Alex Russell, Coastal Carolina
Michael Ward, Liberty
Jovan Ivanovich, Gardner-Webb
Chris Mandell, Liberty
Goalkeeper
Scott Angevine, Coastal Carolina
At Large
Matt Tuttle, High Point
SECOND TEAM ALL-BIG SOUTH
Forwards
Tim Bullock, Liberty
Brian Bartels, UNC Asheville
Fejiro Okiomah, High Point
Midfielders
Romeo Kabanda, Gardner-Webb
Matt Schroeder, Coastal Carolina
James Stapleton, Coastal Carolina
Chris Phillips, Liberty
Defenders
Daniel DiBiagio, Winthrop
Jon Ole Reinhardsen, Gardner-Webb
Ayao Sossou, VMI
Todd Ray, High Point
Goalkeeper
A.J. Madero, Liberty
At Large
Myles Jones, Radford
All Freshman Team
Luis Faz, Coastal Carolina
Sean McCormick, Coastal Carolina
John Sargent, Gardner-Webb
Shawn Sloan, High Point
Fejiro Okiomah, High Point
Myles Jones, Radford
James Jordan, Radford
Patrick Donahue, High Point
Enrique Miranda, Winthrop
Daniel DiBiagio, Winthrop
(Tie) David Parra, UNC Asheville
(Tie) Zachery Odum, UNC Asheville
All-Academic Team
Trent Kozman, Gardner-Webb
Juan Guzman, Liberty
Adam Hatem, High Point
Matt Horn, Winthrop
Sam Eastridge, Presbyterian
Justin Zimmer, Radford
Sonny Landry, VMI
Jake Hagedorn, UNC Asheville
Robert Hunter, Coastal Carolina
PLAYER OF THE YEAR/ALL-CONFERENCE FIRST TEAM
Djamel Bekka 2009: A captain that leads the offense by taking control of the field... Leads the team with five assists... Scored one goal in regular season against Radford... Had his first multi-assist game against UNC Asheville dishing on both goals... Had the assist on the game-winning overtime goal against VMI... Earned All-Tournament Honors in the Big West Challenge after tallying a shot and an assist... Averages 0.38 assists per game and points per game... Played in 13 games starting nine... Has an average of 1.23 shots per game...
All-Conference First Team
Alex Russell 2009: A vocal captain in the defensive backfield that organizes a defense that has allowed .866 goals against average... Voted to the All-Tournament Team in all three tournaments participated in... Garnered Co-Big South Soccer Player of the Week Honor (Week of Sept. 29) after leading the defense to win the Big West Challenge and beating #24 Cal State Northridge 2-1 and allowed 11 shots in the two game span. Helped the Chanticleers in their recent 11 game unbeaten streak by allowing .909 goals against average... Score his first career goal in the 3-1 win over Gardner-Webb... Started in all 15 games played...
Scott Angevine: Finished the regular season unbeaten with a 6-0-5 overall record at a 5-0-3 conference record... Made 30 saves this season... Had .789 save percentage and was 38th in the nation... Averages 0.63 goals against by never allowing more than one goal scored in all ten games played... Was Ranked 13th in the nation in goals against average... Accumulated three shut outs on the regular season... Had a career-high eight saves against Presbyterian... Made six crucial saves against High Point to earn his second shut out of the season...
All-Conference Second Team
Matt Schroeder 2009: Scored five goals in four consecutive games... Tied for the lead on the team in points with 12... Selected as the Big South Soccer Player of the Week for the week of Oct. 26 after scoring the tieing goal against Presbyterian and scoring the game-winning overtime goal in the against VMI, 1-0... Scored his second game-winner against Winthrop, 3-1 and added another goal to secure the lead... Had a career-high five shots against VMI... Had a goal and the assist on the game-winning goal in the 2-1 win over UNC Asheville... Played in 13 games starting 11...
James Stapleton: Has been hurt as of late, but sparked the Chanticleers in the beginning of the season by scoring in four consecutive games he played... Scored a career-high five goals this season... Tied leading the team with 12 points... Tallied his first game-winner of the season in 1-0 win over St. Francis (NY)... Had a career-game against Davidson by scoring two goals including the game-winner and an assist in the 3-1 win... Garnered Big South Men's Soccer of the Week for the week of Sept. 7-13... Started in nine games and played in 11.
All-Conference Freshman Team
Luis Faz-Midfield
Aggressive and technical midfield attacker... Tallied two assists in the 3-1 Winthrop win... Started all 15 games that he has played only missing one... Named to the All-Tournament Team at the Davidson/adidas Classic after tallying a career-high four shots against Georgetown and one shot against Davidson... Had three shots against VMI... Had 18 shots this season and averages 1.07 shots per game...
Sean McCormick: Played in 11 games and started seven... Had seven shots on the season... Tallied a career-high two shots against College of Charleston and Davidson... Averages 0.64 shots per game...
All-Academic Team
Robert Hunter: Has a 3.8 cumulative GPA and has had a 4.0 two semesters while getting his masters... Played in eight games this season... Scored a goal and three assists this season and has 11 shots on the season... 2008: Named to the Big South All-Tournament Team, First Team All-Big South, and NSCAA All-Region/Adidas Team.... Led the team with 28 points on the season with 11 goals and six assists... Scored the game-winner four times... Scored the game-winner in the second round of the Big South Tournament against UNC Asheville... Prior to Coastal: Attended Furman made All-Southern Conference Honor Roll was fifth on the team in points sophomore year...had a goal and assist freshman year...
