Men's Lacrosse Announces Team Awards, Celebrates 2022 PL Title
October 19, 2022 | Men's Lacrosse
BOSTON - The Boston University men's lacrosse team celebrated its 2022 Patriot League championship team at a banquet on Sunday morning at the Francis D. Burke Club Room at Agganis Arena.
BU handed out championship rings to last year's squad, which became the first team in program history to claim a Patriot League title and advance to the NCAA Tournament. The Terriers also announced the team's annual award winners.
Sunday's event was part of the program's annual kickoff weekend, which this year included a celebration at the Photonics Center on Saturday in recognition of 10 seasons of varsity lacrosse at BU. The program also held its annual alumni game at Nickerson Field on Saturday morning.
Conor Calderone collected two awards, as he was selected as the Best Newcomer in addition to winning the Ground Ball Award. Calderone led the Terriers with 98 ground balls, the third-highest total in program history, in his first season at BU en route to earning Second Team All-Patriot League and Second Team All-New England honors. Calderone posted a career-best .530 save percentage, including an NCAA record 32-of-34 performance against Lafayette in which he gathered a conference- and program-record 21 ground balls.
Two Terriers - James Corcoran and Walker Ker - shared the Most Improved Award. Corcoran scored a career-high five goals, including three in the Patriot League Tournament. Two of those three playoff goals came in the Terriers' 14-10 win over No. 14 Army West Point in the title game. Ker appeared in 11 games, gathering a ground ball in each of his first three games and finishing with a career-best 10 on the season. He collected a career-high three ground balls in a 9-8 win at Lehigh on April 23 that clinched the regular-season title for BU.
Robert Gallop received the team's Fitness Award for his tremendous work ethic in the strength and conditioning room while Brendan Wilcox earned the Team GPA Award for his excellence in the classroom. Matt Garber took home the Terrier Award, which is given to the player who best exemplifies excellence in academics, athletics and community. Garber, the PL Goalkeeper of the Year, was a USILA All-American and USILA Scholar All-American and also won the E. Ray Speare Award as BU's top male scholar-athlete in the senior class, among his many honors last year.
Roy Meyer was chosen as the team's Most Valuable Player as well as the team's Defensive Player of the Year after recording one of the finest seasons in school history. A unanimous First Team All-American, Meyer finished his impressive season with 58 caused turnovers and 81 ground balls. His 58 caused turnovers is the most by any NCAA player since 2013 and the second-most by any NCAA player since it became an official stat in 2010. His 81 ground balls is the most ever by a Terrier defender and ranks seventh all-time in the program's single-season record book.
Timmy Ley and Louis Perfetto shared Offensive Player of the Year honors. The duo was part of one of the most potent attack units in the country. Ley finished his sensational senior season with 43 goals and 31 assists for 74 points, all of which were career highs. The Second Team All-Patriot League selection entered the NCAA Tournament with a nation-best 38-game goal scoring streak and became the third Terrier in program history to score 100 career goals.
Perfetto was named Patriot League Tournament MVP after scoring four goals and adding five assists for nine points in two games. He led the Terriers with a career-high 35 assists and also posted career highs in goals (30) and points (65). Perfetto collected career-best six assists as part of career-high eight-point day in a 14-9 victory at Loyola Maryland on April 16 to begin a stretch of five straight games in which he totaled 28 points (12g, 16a), culminating with his two goals and two assists in the conference championship contest.
