Ja:goh Chase Scanlan!
By Lindsay Kramer | lkramer@syracuse.com | Reprinted from https://www.syracuse.com
Syracuse, N.Y. — The tremendous top-to-bottom talent of the Syracuse lacrosse team this season was a large reason why the team earned the No. 1 ranking before play was stopped because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Wednesday, that depth spilled over to color Inside Lacrosse’s All-American team with a heavy tint of Orange.
Inside Lacrosse put nine SU players on its honorary squad, more than any team in the country and two more than the next-closest team, Cornell. The total is also the most All-Americans for SU from any organization since 11 players were named USILA All-Americans in 2015.
SU midfielders Jamie Trimboli and Brendan Curry headlined the first team. Trimboli posted 17 goals this season and his 3.4 goals per game led all midfielders nationally. Curry produced 17 points (14-3) and was third among ACC midfielders in goals per game (2.8), behind Trimboli’s 3.4 and North Carolina’s Tanner Cook (2.86).
Syracuse defensive midfielder Peter Dearth and goalie Drake Porter earned second-team honors and defender Brett Kennedy was tabbed to the third team.
Midfiedler Tucker Dordevic, faceoff man Jakob Phaup, attack Stephen Rehfuss and attack Chase Scanlan earned honorable mention honors.
Army defender Marcus Hudgins, from West Genesee, was a third-team All-American.
The Orange was also the only school that placed its entire first midfield unit in the All-American group. The unit of Trimboli, Curry and Dordevic were on pace to be the third-most productive midfield line by points-per-game in Syracuse history.
The trio was behind just the 1990 (11.9 points per game) and 1988 (11.1) squads’ pace, which were headlined by Paul and Gary Gait twins. The current Orange group (10.2) sat just ahead of the 1994 group (9.9) of Roy Colsey, Charlie Lockwood and Dom Fin – all three of those players are in the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame.
