It was the Year of the Defense for BW boys soccer

By GARY HENERY

News Man­ag­ing Editor

It was the Year of the Defense for Brett Weiss’ Big Wal­nut boys soc­cer team which was rec­og­nized at the team’s annual awards night held Wednes­day, Novem­ber 14, in the BWHS Cafeteria.

Five play­ers, senior Ethan Green, juniors Bra­dyn Drons­field, Nick Her­bert and Dominic Zumpone along with sopho­more Noah Gib­son shared the Defen­sive Player of the Year Award — and four of the five will be back for the Golden Eagles’ 2013 campaign.

Defense was the key for Weiss’ troops who posted a 12–7-1 record for the Golden Eagles who fin­ished the sea­son as Divi­sion II Cen­tral Dis­trict runners-up after tying Delaware Hayes for fourth place with a 3–3-1 record in the Ohio Cap­i­tal Con­fer­ence Cap­i­tal Division.

Olen­tangy Orange cap­tured the Cap­i­tal Divi­sion crown with a 7–0-0 record. New Albany and Olen­tangy tied for sec­ond with 5–2-0 marks.

Big Walnut’s offense was paced by senior Shane Face­myer and Austin Foor who were rec­og­nized as the Golden Eagles’ Offen­sive Play­ers of the Year. Junior goal­keeper Tyler Sholl was voted the recip­i­ent of the Most Improved Player Award. Junior Nathan Mick­ley and Green shared the Coaches Award.

Five mem­bers of the team were sin­gled out as All-OCC hon­orees, includ­ing Face­myer and Foor who were voted to the First Team; Drons­field, a Sec­ond Team selec­tion; Zumpone, a Spe­cial Men­tion pick; and Gib­son, an Hon­or­able Men­tion choice. Face­myer and Foor com­pleted their careers by being named to the Divi­sion II All-Central Dis­trict First team.

Weiss, assisted by coach­ing staff mem­bers Jason McLead, Archie Foor, Milan Orr and Rob­bie Williamson, awarded 20 var­sity let­ters to mem­bers of the 33-player squad. Face­myer and Foor, who each received their Var­sity Blan­ket as four-year let­ter men, led the let­ter pre­sen­ta­tions. They also received their Senior Plaque.

Third-year let­ters were pre­sented to Drons­field and Zumpone while second-year let­ters went to juniors Maxwell Den­ton and Mick­ley as well as to sopho­more Adam Carifa.

First-year let­ter win­ners included seniors Alex Braven­der and Green; juniors Cameron Evans, Luke Hart­ings, Her­bert and Sholl; and sopho­mores Bobby Bogantz, Iain Kirsch, Tyler Led­bet­ter, Jason Vazquez, Kevin Vazquez, Kyle Wurm and Gibson.

Six­teen of the 20 let­ter men will return for what promises to be another com­pet­i­tive sea­son for the Golden Eagles.

Thir­teen team mem­bers earned their junior var­sity awards, includ­ing junior Jeremy Hum­bert; sopho­mores Bar­ento Abdurehman, John Civin, Alexan­der Fitch, John Osburn, Anthony Pavuk, Jacob Thomp­son and Jacob Will; and fresh­men Andrew Cochran, Caleb Gib­son, Jacob Hrusovsky, Tay­lor Kline and Matthew Whyde.

Ten mem­bers of the Golden Eagle squad were rec­og­nized as Big Wal­nut Scholar Ath­letes (Var­sity Let­ter Win­ner, 3.20 Grade Point Aver­age), includ­ing Bogantz, Den­ton, Evans, Noah Gib­son, Hart­ings, Kirsch, Sholl, Kevin Vazquez, Wurm and Zumpone.

Posted by Gary Henery on Nov 20 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.