BETHLEHEM, Pa. – The Patriot League announced the 2007 All-League Teams on Wednesday afternoon and Lehigh placed four student-athletes on the teams, including First-Team selections Sara MacIntyre and Inneke Carmola, Second-Team pick Sarah Fudin and At-Large selection Christy Smith. This marks the second straight season that both MacIntyre and Smith have garnered All-League accolades. The league’s six head coaches vote on the All-League teams and major award winners.
The 2006 Patriot League Co-Rookie of the year, MacIntyre scored 34 goals this season and handed out six assists. The Pennsylvania native also scooped up 18 ground balls and won 16 draw controls while starting all 15 games she appeared in. MacIntyre scored at least two goals in 12 games this season, scoring three or more on five occasions. In two seasons at Lehigh, she has scored 81 goals and totaled 93 points, having scored at least one point in every game she’s played in but one.
A three-time Patriot League Rookie of the Week selection, Carmola made an immediate impact on the Mountain Hawk program from day one, scoring three goals in her first collegiate game versus Central Connecticut. She has scored 44 goals thus far this season, which is just three shy of tying the all-time freshman mark set by MacIntyre last season. Carmola also handed out six assists, scooped up 35 ground balls and scored five game-winning goals. 12 times this season she has scored multiple goals in a game, including a career-best seven in a win over Colgate on April 6. Carmola leads the Brown and White in points, goals, shots, game-winning goals and free position goals.
One of Lehigh’s most tenacious defenders, Fudin continually drew the assignment of covering the opposition’s most potent offensive player this season. The New York native started all 16 games for the Mountain Hawks, scooping up 27 ground balls, causing ten turnovers and winning 11 draw controls along the way. In two seasons at Lehigh Fudin has started 30 games and scooped up 48 ground balls.
A Second-Team selection a season ago, Smith joins MacIntyre and Carmola as 20-goal scorers for the Mountain Hawks. The engineering major started all 16 games in 2007, scoring 21 goals and dishing out 11 assists along the way. She also scooped up 30 ground balls, won 23 draw controls and scored three free position goals. Smith scored four goals and handed out one assist in Lehigh’s victory at Villanova on April 10, while versus St. Joe’s on April 24, she netted a hat trick to help Lehigh down the Hawks 13-5. Smith, who has also earned a spot on the All-League teams in each of the past two seasons for the Lehigh field hockey program, has appeared in 49 games for the Brown and White during her lacrosse career, scoring 65 goals to go along with 22 assists.
Lehigh has now placed at least two players on the all-league teams in every season but one, and the Mountain Hawks have had at least three student-athletes selected 11 times, including in each of the past three seasons.
The Patriot League will announce its major award winners, including Player, Defensive Player, Goal Keeper, Rookie and Coach of the Year at the awards banquet on Thursday evening.
Lehigh returns to action on Friday when the Mountain Hawks take on the American Eagles in the semifinals of the 2007 Patriot League Tournament on Friday afternoon in Worcester, Massachusetts on the campus of Holy Cross. The second-seeded Mountain Hawks and third-seeded Eagles will get things underway at 4:00, following the first semifinal matchup between top-seeded Holy Cross and the fourth-seeded Colgate Raiders. The winners of the two semifinals will meet on Sunday in Worcester for the Patriot League Championship at 1:00. All of Lehigh’s postseason action can be heard live on lehighsports.com with streaming powered by Yahoo! Sports.
