Loyola's MacDonnell, Hagelin capture top ECAC awards
Despite finishing what amounts to second place to Denver in the Eastern College Athletic Conference, Loyola took two of the league's five top honors.
Senior attackman Cooper MacDonnell was named the ECAC Offensive Player of the Year, while junior goalie Jake Hagelin was voted as the league's Goalkeeper of the Year.
Despite missing three games with an injured shoulder, MacDonnell has scored 22 goals this season and added seven assists. He has scored a goal in 12 of the Greyhounds' 13 contests and has scored at least twice in seven of those games. MacDonnell has recorded a point in 28 consecutive contests.
Hagelin has registered a 7.86 goals-against average, which tops all goaltenders in the ECAC and ranks third nationally. The Havre de Grace and Boys' Latin was the league's Rookie of the Year in 2008.
Joining MacDonnell and Hagelin on the All-ECAC first team were senior attackman Collin Finnerty, senior defenseman Steve Layne, junior midfielder Eric Lusby and junior face-off specialist John Schiavone
Finnerty leads the Greyhounds in scoring with 34 points and is tied with MacDonnell for the team lead in goals with 22. Like MacDonnell, Finnerty has posted a point in 12 of the team's 13 games.
Layne has been the anchor of Loyola's defense, which has surrendered just 100 goals this spring -- the lowest allowed by any team. He leads the Greyhounds in caused turnovers with 12 and has collected 29 groundballs.
Lusby has posted 19 goals and five assists after making the switch from attack to midfield. The Severna Park native and graduate has scored three hat tricks this spring.
Schiavone ranks fifth in Division I in both face-off percentage (.600) and groundballs per game (6.3). Schiavone leads the team with 83 groundballs, which ranks eighth on the school's single-season list for groundballs.
Senior midfielder Taylor Ebsary was chosen to the league's second team. He is tied for second on Loyola with 12 assists and has scored a career-best seven goals. Ebsary ranks second on the team in groundballs (34) and is tied for second in caused turnovers (11).
Denver, the regular-season champion and the winner of the league's automatic qualifier for the NCAA Tournament, boasted the Defensive Player of the Year in senior Dillon Roy and the Coach of the Year in Bill Tierney. Ohio State attackman Logan Schuss was named the Rookie of the Year.
