Lacrosse: Berry’s Hall named Player of Year

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The Southern Athletic Association announced the Men’s Lacrosse All-Conference award winners. Berry College earned seven honors, highlighted by Offensive Player of the Year Cory Hall.

Hall, a senior attack from Suwanee guided the Vikings to regular season tri-champion status by being one of the most dominant offensive forces in the SAA. He spearheaded Berry’s dynamic offense all year long and appears inside the Top 10 of several major statistical categories.

Hall led the league in shots (158), was second in goals scored (42), second in shots on goal (80) and eighth in assists (18). Hall led the Viking on an eight-game winning streak at the end of the season that was only derailed in the SAA title game in a slim 7-6 defeat to Sewanee. Hall is Berry College’s all-time leader in goals (163) and points (218). He earned SAA first team honors last year, and was a second team selection as a Berry sophomore.

Three other Vikings joined Hall on the SAA first team: Jack Chase, Maxwell Smerka, and Nate Mayer.

Chase, a senior defender, becomes the Vikings’ first four-time SAA first team honoree in men’s lacrosse. He anchored a defense which allowed a stingy 7.79-goals per-game and also scored 3 goals and passed two assists — in addition to causing 16 turnovers.

A senior midfielder, Smerka scored 15 goals and had 10 assists for Berry. Smerka was tabbed to the SAA second team in 2014.

Mayer earned first team honors as a senior short-stick middie. The senior scooped a team-high 51 ground balls, caused 14 turnovers and added two goals and one assist for Berry.

Berry placed one student-athlete on the second team: Christian Akers. A junior midfielder, Akers placed third on the team with 37 points (31 goals, 6 assists).

Senior defender Patrick Towner was named to the SAA Honorable Mention Team for the second time in his career. He scored one goal, caused a team-high 34 turnovers and recorded 34 ground balls for the Vikes.

Berry finished 2015 with a 12-5 record, a conference co-championship and reached the SAA Championship game.

Source: Rome News

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