FOREST, Va. – Guilford College placed four students on the Old Dominion Athletic Conference’s (ODAC) annual men’s lacrosse all-league teams announced Thursday. Senior Adam Fiore (Ithaca, N.Y./Ithaca) garnered second-team honors and teammates Cam Davis (Raleigh, N.C./Athens Drive), Erik Fries (Milford, Conn./Notre Dame) and Dylan Haupt (Raleigh, N.C./Athens Drive) picked up third-team recognition. The award winners were selected and nominated by the league’s men’s lacrosse coaches based largely on performance in ODAC games. Guilford’s four selections match the school’s highest number of all-league picks in a season.
The coaches also approved the renaming of the league’s annual sportsmanship team to the Ray Rostan Men’s Lacrosse Sportsmanship Team to honor the Hampden-Sydney College mentor who retired this spring after 32 years on the Tigers’ sidelines. He also won the 2016 Coach of the Year honor, the fifth of his distinguished tenure. Senior midfielder Andrew McDonagh (Whitmore Lake, Mich./Dexter) represented Guilford on the league’s sportsmanship team.
Fiore, a 6-2, 190-pound attackman, led the Quakers’ offense for the fourth straight season with 55 points on 26 goals and 29 assists. He stands seventh among ODAC scoring leaders and fourth in assists. Fiore tallied 30 points on 13 goals and 17 assists in nine league contests. The team captain collected Guilford’s first ODAC Player of the Week Award since 2012 and led the team with six man-up goals this season. One of his best games came in Guilford’s 18-10 win over Ferrum College in which he compiled eight points on three goals and five assists. The tilt marked one of his four with three scores and one of his seven with at least three assists.
Fiore, a 2014 Second Team All-ODAC pick, wraps up his career ranked fourth among Guilford’s scoring leaders with 212 points in 54 games. His 114 assists stand second all-time and his 98 goals rank ninth. He earned the 2016 Nereus C. English Athletic Leadership Award, Guilford’s top athletics honor, and graduates Saturday with his degree in sport management.
Davis, a 6-3, 215-pound senior defender, enjoyed arguably the finest of his four campaigns with the Quakers. He established career highs in ground balls (27), caused turnovers (16) and points (5) in 17 starts this spring. Davis ranked 16th among ODAC caused turnovers leaders, ninth in league outings. He picked up five ground balls and caused four miscues in a league loss at Virginia Wesleyan College, a game in which he also added a goal and an assist. The defender scored three goals with his long pole and finished with six goals and six assists in 57 games. Davis also totaled 93 ground balls and 49 caused turnovers. The three-year starter graduates Saturday with a sport management degree.
Fries, a 5-10, 215-pound junior defender, enjoyed a successful first season as a starter. He stood second on the team with 39 ground balls (tops among Guilford defenders) and caused 12 turnovers in 16 appearances. Fries enjoyed four games with four or more pickups, including the April 2 tilt with league-champion Washington and Lee University in which he added a season-high three caused turnovers. Fries and Davis contributed to a defensive effort that yielded 164 goals, the fourth-fewest total among the league’s 10 teams.
Haupt, a 6-4, 215-pound midfielder, earned his second straight Third-Team All-ODAC honor. The senior was Guilford’s third-leading scorer (tops among midfielders) with 23 points on 16 goals and seven assists. He also stood sixth on the team with 28 ground balls and caused five turnovers. Haupt netted a club-high three goals in Guilford’s 10-7 road win over crosstown-rival Greensboro College, one of his five multiple-goal contests this year. He matched his career high with three assists in a late -season setback at Lynchburg College. Haupt contributed 88 points (60 goals, 28 assists) in 57 career games and earns his degree Saturday in sport management.
Coach Tom Carmean’s Quakers recorded an 8-9 overall record in a season that ended with a 12-9 setback to Hampden-Sydney College in the ODAC Tournament quarterfinals. Fiore, Davis, Haupt and McDonagh were part a senior class that recorded the third-highest win total by a Guilford senior class in school history. Carmean could return as many as five starters among 27 letter winners from this year’s team.