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D’Agnes, Vinson Named to ECAC Lacrosse League Honor Roll

WASHINGTON, D.C.  –  Georgetown senior men’s lacrosse players Dan D’Agnes (Manhasset, N.Y./Chaminade) and Dan Vinson (Pleasant Hill, Calif./DeLaSalle) were named to the ECAC Honor Roll on Monday afternoon.

The senior duo helped lead the Hoyas to back-to-back wins last week, first a 12-4 decision over Mount St. Mary’s on Wednesday and then handing Fairfield its first ECAC League loss of the season with an 11-8 win at the Multi-Sport Field on Saturday.

Georgetown has won two-straight games and three of its last four overall to improve to 5-5, including a 1-2 mark in the ECAC.  The Hoyas are now ranked No. 18 in the Nike/Inside Lacrosse poll and tied for No. 19 in the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) rankings.

D’Agnes scored five goals and had one assist in two games as Georgetown won two games last week.  He scored three goals and had one assist in the Hoyas 12-4 win at Mount St. Mary’s last Tuesday.  D’Agnes followed that up with two goals in Georgetown’s big league win over Fairfield, scoring the team’s first two goals in the fourth quarter to push the Hoya lead to five goals in the 11-8 win.  D’Agnes is fifth on the team in scoring with eight goals and three assists for 11 points.

Vinson has been dominant at the face-off X for the Hoyas and it was never more evident than in the last two games, when Vinson captured 85.2 percent of his chances.  He was 6-of-6 in a non-league game against Mount St. Mary’s on Tuesday.  In Georgetown’s win over Fairfield, Vinson was, perhaps, the biggest factor in the team’s win, capturing 17-of-21 face-off attempts and collecting 12 ground balls in the process.  The face-off wins and ground balls were a career-high for Vinson and the 17 face-off wins were the most for a Georgetown player since Christiaan Trunz won 19 against Loyola during the 2007 season.

In the two wins last week the Hoyas received a balanced effort on the offensive side, with eight different players scoring goals in each game.  Against Mount St. Mary’s, D’Agnes and junior Andrew Brancaccio (Bethesda, Md./Georgetown Prep) scored three goals apiece as GU scored 12 goals, its second-highest offensive output this season.

Senior Jake Samperton (Bethesda, Md./Landon), making his first start of the season, scored two goals and had an assist to lead the scoring.

During the week, three different players also scored for the first times in their careers and a pair of brothers registered goals.  Freshman attackman Zack Angel (Park Hall, Md./St. Mary’s Ryken) capped off a strong week, scoring a goal and adding an assist in the 11-8 decision.  He scored the team’s first goal of the second half and then assisted the first goal of the fourth quarter as the Hoyas five second half goals en route to the win.  Angel scored his first career goal earlier in the week against Mount St. Mary’s.

Sophomore Stu Shannon (Detroit, Mich./Detroit Country Day) also scored his first collegiate goals during the week.  Shannon, a 6-7 middie who is the tallest player in Georgetown history, had a goal and an assist in the Mount St. Mary’s win, and then added the second goal of his career in Saturday’s win over Fairfield.

Sophomore Dan Hostetler (Ellicott City, Md./River Hill) scored his first collegiate goal in the win over Mount St. Mary’s and his brother, senior Ben Hostetler (Ellicott City, Md./River Hill) scored a goal in the win over Fairfield.

Georgetown returns to action this weekend, hosting ECAC rival Loyola on Saturday, April 11 at the Multi-Sport Field.  The Hoyas and the Greyhounds will face off at 1 p.m.  The game will be shown live on MASN, with Bob Socci handling the play-by-play and Matt Poskay serving as the color analyst.  A live webcast of the game will be available on the Georgetown Athletics website – www.guhoyas.com – with Chuck Timanus providing all of the action.

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