All-NEC Teams Announced

[smallcollegefbfan]

2008 NEC Football Major Awards

NEC Offensive Player of the Year
RB David Sinisi Monmouth Jr. 5-9 200 Cedar Grove, NJ/Cedar Grove

NEC Defensive Player of the Year
DT Kevin Walsh Monmouth Sr. 6-3 270 Mt. Laurel, NJ/Lenape

NEC Offensive Rookie of the Year
WR James O’Quinn Robert Morris Fr. 6-2 170 Vandergrift, PA/Kiski Area

NEC Defensive Rookie of the Year
S Jose Gumbs Monmouth Fr. 5-11 195 Brooklyn, NY/Hebron Academy

NEC Coach of the Year
Bob Ford, Albany

2008 NEC Football All-Conference First Team

Offense
Pos Name School Yr Ht Wt Hometown/High School
QB Dale Fink Sacred Heart So. 6-4 200 Swansea, IL/Althoff Catholic
RB David McCarty Albany Jr. 6-0 190 Gansevoort, NY/La Salle Institute
RB Dave Sinisi Monmouth Jr. 5-10 200 Cedar Grove, NJ/Cedar Grove
WR Tim Bush Albany Sr. 5-9 180 Saratoga Springs, NY/Saratoga Springs
WR Steve Tedesco Sacred Heart Jr. 6-1 195 Mission Viejo, CA/Trabuco Hills
TE John Nalbone Monmouth Sr. 6-4 240 Lawrenceville, NJ/Lawrence
OL Cody Kekipi Saint Francis (PA) Jr. 6-1 270 Waimanalo, HI/Punahou
OL Nick LoCastro Monmouth Sr. 6-6 285 Wenonah, NJ/Gateway
OL Raphael Nguti Albany Sr. 6-6 330 Rochester, NY/Brighton
OL Kevin Sterling Monmouth Sr. 6-4 285 Marlton, NJ/Cherokee
OL Shawn Wright Monmouth Jr. 6-2 275 Fort Washington, MD/DeMatha

Defense
Pos Name School Yr Ht Wt Hometown/High School
DL Robert Brown Wagner Sr. 6-1 230 Rome, NY/Rome Free Academy
DL Tom Pandolf Albany Sr. 6-0 260 Holbrook, NY/Sachem
DL Ray Saunders Central Conn. St. Jr. 6-0 220 Temple Hills, MD/Oxon Hill
DL Kevin Walsh Monmouth Sr. 6-3 270 Mt. Laurel, NJ/Lenape
LB Justin Brancaccio Albany Jr. 6-0 230 Rockaway, NJ/Morris Knolls
LB Scott Lewis Saint Francis (PA) So. 5-11 200 South Fork, PA/Bishop McCort
LB Nathan Totino Duquesne So. 5-10 200 Pittsburgh, PA/Seton-LaSalle
DB Dave Casale Albany Jr. 6-2 210 Troy, NY/Troy
DB Michael Landers Robert Morris Jr. 6-1 200 Springdale, PA/Springdale
DB Alondre Rush Central Conn. St. So. 6-0 190 Middletown, CT/Xavier
DB Dave West Albany Sr. 5-10 205 Toms River, NJ/Toms River North

Special Teams
Pos Name School Yr Ht Wt Hometown/High School
K Fred Weingart Monmouth Sr. 6-1 170 New Egypt, NJ/New Egypt
P Chris Lynch Albany Sr. 6-3 215 Lindenhurst, NY/Lindenhurst
RS Garry Coles Sacred Heart Fr. 6-0 190 Southington, CT/Southington

2008 NEC Football All-Conference Second Team

Offense
Pos Name School Yr Ht Wt Hometown/High School
QB Brett Burke Monmouth Sr. 5-11 175 Wall Township, NJ/Wall
RB James Mallory Central Conn. St. Jr. 5-10 200 Buffalo, NY/Kenmore West
RB Myles Russ Robert Morris So. 5-8 170 Boca Raton, FL/West Boca
WR Sherrod Evers Robert Morris Sr. 6-3 200 Philadelphia, PA/Mastbaum Area
WR Omar Winston Saint Francis (PA) So. 6-3 190 Cleveland, OH/Cleveland South
TE Sean Bunevich Duquesne Jr. 6-4 230 North Ridgeville, OH/North Ridgeville
OL Ryan Arroyo Sacred Heart Sr. 6-5 280 Florence, NJ/Florence Twp.
OL Jon Leible Albany Sr. 6-5 285 Commack, NY/Commack
OL Kevin Richards Albany Jr. 6-2 270 Clifton Park, NY/Shenendehowa
OL Nik Schultz Albany Sr. 6-2 285 Ballston Spa, NY/Burnt Hills-Ballston
OL Justin Smith Sacred Heart So. 6-4 340 Binghamton, NY/Binghamton

Defense
Pos Name School Yr Ht Wt Hometown/High School
DL Eddie Delaney Albany Fr. 6-6 235 Holtsville, NY/Sachem East
DL Ernie Greywacz Central Conn. St. Sr. 6-3 215 New Canaan, CT/New Canaan
DL Bill O’Brien Sacred Heart Jr. 6-4 260 Lafayette, NY/Lafayette
DL Mark Szymanski Robert Morris Jr. 6-2 240 Cadogan, PA/Ford City
LB Mike Cooke Central Conn. St. Sr. 5-10 215 Brooklyn, NY/Lackawanna CC
LB Alex DiMichele Robert Morris So. 6-2 240 Pittsburgh, PA/Sto-Rox (Temple)
LB Matthew Parker Saint Francis (PA) So. 6-1 210 Darlington, PA/Blackhawk
DB Ayo Falae Monmouth Sr. 6-0 200 Newark, NJ/Barringer
DB Stefan Gage Wagner So. 6-0 185 Syracuse, NY/Henninger
DB Andre Isla Sacred Heart Jr. 6-0 190 Brookhaven, NY/Bellport
DB Dominique Rose Central Conn. St. So. 5-11 160 Hartford, CT/Sports Sciences

Special Teams
Pos Name School Yr Ht Wt Hometown/High School
K Joe Schroeder Sacred Heart Jr. 5-10 175 East Lyme, CT/East Lyme
P Bobby Fuller Saint Francis (PA) Sr. 6-3 180 Mount Savage, MD/Beall
RS Justin Gannon Albany Jr. 5-6 175 Sussex, NJ/Vernon Twp.

http://www.northeastconference.org/Pdfs/fball/2008/12/1/2008%20NEC%20Football%20All-Conference%20Release.pdf

[danefan]

Special congrats to Albany's Eddie Delaney (DL Freshman)

For those of you who aren't aware of Eddie's situation, he plays with one hand and wears and insulin pump to control his diabetes! remarkable story.

[smallcollegefbfan]

Special congrats to Albany's Eddie Delaney (DL Freshman)

For those of you who aren't aware of Eddie's situation, he plays with one hand and wears and insulin pump to control his diabetes! remarkable story.

Wow! Wish someone in the media would do an article on him so we could read more on that. That sounds like an incredible story! Congrats Eddie!

[danefan]

Wow! Wish someone in the media would do an article on him so we could read more on that. That sounds like an incredible story! Congrats Eddie!

There was an article in Newsday the day after the Hofstra game, but I cannot find it online right now.

Here's a link to a blog that I think has the text of the article. I'm not sure if this is the same one though.
http://uofalbany.blogspot.com/2008/10/perseverance-pays-off-for-ualbany-fcs.html

[downbythebeach]

Thats an awesome accomplishment.....Good for him

The first team also has a nice amount of underclassmen on the 1st team so Im expect big things for the NEC and next years playoff team

[UAalum72]

There was an article in Newsday the day after the Hofstra game, but I cannot find it online right now.

Here's a link to a blog that I think has the text of the article. I'm not sure if this is the same one though.
http://uofalbany.blogspot.com/2008/10/perseverance-pays-off-for-ualbany-fcs.html
Santillo is a writer for the Troy Record.

There's a link to a Newsday story from 2006, but you need a US library password. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-29030410_ITM

And here's video from WNYT on Nov. 18
http://wnyt.com/article/stories/s667472.shtml?cat=256

[R3TRO]

The first team offense.... Correction

All-Albany/Monmouth team...not NEC xthumbsupx