Players To Watch
St. John Fisher
Sean Donaldson (Jr., M) – Donaldson enters the postseason tied for the team lead with 38 goals and has 50 total points, both career highs. He has found the back of the cage multiple times in all but five of the Cardinals’ 17 contests and surpassed 100 collegiate points earlier in the season. Donaldson was named to the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Coaches Association (USILA) Team of the Week after scoring four goals and recording an assist in a 10-8 victory over then-No. 19 Cortland on March 21.
Lane Edinger (Sr., M) – Edinger has enjoyed a breakout senior season for the Cardinals, as he has set career highs in all three major offensive categories with 55 total points on 36 goals and 19 assists. He had the best game of his collegiate career in a 24-7 victory over Hartwick this past Saturday, tallying seven points with five goals and a pair of assists. Edinger earned a spot on the USILA Team of the Week for Week 8 of the season after piling up 10 points on seven goals and three assists over the Cardinals’ games against Utica and Alfred. He had four goals and two assists in a win over Utica and three goals and an assist in a win over Alfred.
Scott Bovard (Jr., A) – Bovard has also already set career highs across the board offensively with a team-leading 56 total points on 38 goals and 18 assists. He’s tallied four or more points in seven games this season, most recently in a 24-7 win over Hartwick last weekend, when he had five points on four goals and an assist. Bovard erupted for nine points, tied for the third-most by a Fisher player in a game, on five goals and four assists in a 24-8 win over Rhodes on March 6. Four games after that, in a 29-2 win over Russell Sage, he scored five goals and set up three others for eight points.
Grady Swidersky (Fr., A) – One of the top freshmen in the Empire 8, Swidersky has 52 total points on 18 goals and a team-leading 34 assists, the seventh most by a Fisher player in a season. He enters the postseason having amassed 17 total points on five goals and 12 assists over the Cardinals’ last two games. Swidersky had three goals and five assists for eight points in a 30-1 victory over Keuka and nine points with a pair of goals and seven assists against Hartwick.
Jonah Vormwald (Fr., FO) – Vormwald has been one of the best faceoff specialists in Division III during his rookie season, boasting a .733 winning percentage (200 wins in 274 attempts) at the X entering the postseason, the eighth-best mark in the country. He has also recovered a team-high 144 ground balls. Vormwald has won more than 15 faceoffs in five games, with his season high (22) coming against RIT on March 18. He went 18-for-18 against SUNY Poly and 17-for-18 against Russell Sage and Keuka.
Tyler Manning (Sr., GK) – A preseason All-American, Manning currently stands eighth in Division III in goals against average (7.71) and 21st in save percentage (56.6). He has played and started in each of Fisher’s 17 contests to this point and has totaled 159 saves while allowing 112 goals.
Geneseo
Ronnie Trebing (Sr., A) – Trebing leads the team with 48 goals and 66 total points. He has scored multiple goals in 12 games this season and surpassed 100 career points in the last game of the regular season, a 16-6 victory over Utica.
Ryan Trebing (Sr., A) – Trebing has scored 33 goals and tallied a team-high 27 assists for 60 total points, the second most on the team. He’s posted multiple points in 13 games and surpassed 100 for his career earlier in the season.
Sam Myung (So., D) – Myung helps anchor a defense that averages around 11 caused turnovers per game. He’s second on the team with 25 caused turnovers and 56 ground ball recoveries.
Ben Bradshaw (So., G) – Bradshaw, who has played and started in all 17 games this season, owns a .532 save percentage with an 12-5 record. He allowed just 7.13 goals per game during Empire 8 Conference regular-season play.
