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Date Posted:11/14/2002, 8:00AM
Men's Soccer Earns NESCAC Honors
BRUNSWICK, Maine -
The Bowdoin College men's soccer team
placed first in the NESCAC during the
regular season and closed out their season
with a 10-3-2 record. On Thursday morning,
the conference
released their all-NESCAC selections and
Bowdoin head coach Brian Ainscough was
named coach of the
year, while first-year Andrew Russo
(Weymouth, Mass.) was the lone Polar Bear
All-NESCAC selection,
placing on the second team.
Russo had an
outstanding first season on the Brunswick
campus, setting the school mark for goals by
a
first-year (12) as he led the squad with 26
points. He also had five game-winning goals
for Bowdoin and
was the difference in numerous contests. He
broke open the first contest of the season
against a scrappy
Husson team by collecting a hat trick in the
final five minutes of the game and scored
crucial goals against
perennial rivals Williams, Amherst and
Middlebury in consecutive games.
Ainscough was
selected by his peers as the NESCAC Coach
of the Year after leading the Polar Bears to
the regular season NESCAC crown. Bowdoin
was ranked as high as seventh in the nation
this season and
proved to be stellar in close contests, going
3-0-1 in four overtime games with all three
losses coming by a
single goal. Ainscough improves his career
mark to 34-10-5 (.745) at Bowdoin, the best
winning
percentage of any coach in Polar Bear men's
soccer history.
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