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Men's Soccer All-ACC Honors Accounced
November 12, 1998 GREENSBORO, N.C. - ACC regular season conference champion Clemson, with six highlighted athletes, leads the 1998 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Soccer Teams, as selected by the league's seven head coaches. Defending ACC Tournament champion Virginia had five selections to the all-conference squad, followed by Duke with 4, Wake Forest 3, Maryland 2 and North Carolina and NC State each with one.
The Top Picks Clemson's Wojtek Krakowiak was tabbed as the 1998 ACC Player of the Year, while his coach Trevor Adair garnered ACC Coach of the Year recognition. North Carolina's Chris Carrieri was selected the ACC Rookie of the Year. One of the 15 finalists for the Hermann Trophy, Krakowiak leads the nation in scoring averaging 3.05 points a game and ranks second in goals scored per game with 1.32 per contest. The junior forward from Clifton, N.J., has tallied a league-high 58 points on 25 goals and eight assists for the year. Krakowiak is also a five-time selection to the Soccer America Team of the Week this fall. One of the league's leading scorers during the 1998 campaign, Carrieri earned second team All-ACC honors after tabulating a team-high 13 goals and 29 points for the Tar Heels. A forward from Stafford, Va., he enters the ACC Tournament this week needing only three more goals to tie North Carolina's freshman record for goals in a season. Currently in his fourth season at Clemson, Adair guided the Tigers to their first regular season conference title since 1993. With the team's only loss coming in conference play, his team enters the tournament with an impressive 18-1 mark to bring his career record to 89-45-11, including a 55-21-6 mark at Clemson.
A Look at the First Team Two other Tigers join Krakowiak on the first-team All-Conference list as goalkeeper Josh Campbell and midfielder Mark Lisi each earned their first all-league selection. Ranked fourth nationally with a 0.51 goals against average, Campbell recorded nine solo shutouts during the 1998 campaign and allowed only nine goals the entire year. A two-time ACC Player of the Week pick, Lisi ranked second on the Tiger squad in scoring with 10 goals and 13 assists for 33 points. Three Virginia players were named to the first team led by the Cavaliers' leading scorer Chris Albright who has accumulated 18 goals and two assists for 38 points this year. He is joined by three-time All-ACC defender Matt Chulis who helped UVa post eight shutouts this fall, and last year's ACC Rookie of the Year Jason Moore who is second on the team with seven assists. Maryland is represented on the first-team All-ACC squad by midfielder Keith Beach and forward Taylor Twellman. A three-time all-conference pick, Beach recently became the Terrapins all-time career assist leader, totaling 30 career assists to date, and currently ranks 10th on the school scoring chart with 62 career points. Maryland's leading scorer this season, Twellman has totaled 14 goals and seven assists for 35 points in his freshman campaign. Sergei Daniv and Chad Evans earned first-team recognition for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. A three-time All-ACC pick after earning second team honors in 1995 and first team accolades in 1996, Daniv returned to the Wake Forest lineup after suffering a serious knee injury last year to contribute five goals and two assists for 12 points. Evans earns his second all-league award after anchoring the Deacons' defense to four shutouts, while contributing on offense with two goals and five assists for nine points. Duke's Jay Heaps rounds out the 1998 first-team All-ACC squad. A four-time all-conference pick, he ranks first on the team in scoring with 12 goals and six assists for 30 points and enters the tournament tied for third at Duke in career goals with 44 and third in career points with 123.
1998 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Soccer Teams First Team Position Year Hometown Chris Albright, Virginia Forward SO Philadelphia, PA Keith Beach, Maryland Midfielder SR Northport, NY Josh Campbell, Clemson Goalkeeper JR Baltimore, MD Matt Chulis, Virginia Defender SR Central Islip, NY Sergei Daniv, Wake Forest Midfielder SR Lviv, Ukraine Chad Evans, Wake Forest Defender JR LaPlata, MD Jay Heaps, Duke Midfielder SR Longmeadow, MA Wojtek Krakowiak, Clemson Forward JR Clifton, NJ Mark Lisi, Clemson Midfielder SO Englewood, CO Jason Moore, Virginia Midfielder SO Lawrenceville, GA Taylor Twellman, Maryland Forward FR St. Louis, MOACC Player of the Year: Wojtek Krakowiak, Clemson ACC Rookie of the Year: Chris Carrieri, North Carolina ACC Coach of the Year: Trevor Adair, Clemson
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