KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Fort Hays State’s Mauricio Castorino, Maurizio Costa, and David Lucio were named to the NSCAA All-Central Region Team for the 2015 season. All three were first-team selections on the D2CCA All-Central Region Team.
Finishing the season with 10 goals and eight assists, Castorino led the MIAA in points for the season with 28. Castorino notches yet another honor after being named the MIAA Player of the Year and the D2CCA Central Region Player of the Year. He was the MIAA Freshman of the Year in 2014 before earning conference player of the year honors this year.
Costa finished the year with 20 points, providing nine goals and two assists for the Tigers. He led the team in game-winning goals with three and buried all four penalty kick opportunities he had in the regular season.
Lucio finished the year with 11 points, putting in four goals with three assists. Three of his points came during the postseason with a goal and an assist. He ranked fourth on the team in minutes played with 1584 while starting all 20 contests.
Below is the NSCAA Men’s Soccer All-Central Region Team for 2015.
Pos. |
Player |
Class |
School |
Hometown |
K |
Connor Rortvedt |
So. |
Upper Iowa |
Verona, Wis. |
D |
Hugo Alves |
Sr. |
Upper Iowa |
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
D |
Eric Crawford |
Sr. |
Northeastern State (Okla.) |
Toronto, Ont. |
D |
Logan Dahnert |
So. |
Upper Iowa |
Fort Atkinson, Wis. |
D |
Steven Hutchison |
Sr. |
Lindenwood |
Glasgow, Scotland |
M |
David Lucio |
Sr. |
Fort Hays State |
Wichita, Kan. |
M |
Johnny McBeth |
So. |
Upper Iowa |
Glasgow, Scotland |
M |
Alfredo Paez-Pumas |
Sr. |
Lindenwood |
Caracas, Venezuela |
M |
Trevor Reed |
Sr. |
Northeastern State (Okla.) |
Cabot, Ark. |
F |
Mauricio Castorino |
Sr. |
Fort Hays State |
Asuncion, Paraguay |
F |
Maurizio Costa |
So. |
Fort Hays State |
Asuncion, Paraguay |
F |
Andre Hayne |
Sr. |
Lindenwood |
Vitoria, Brazil |
F |
Ryan Pinkerton |
Jr. |
Upper Iowa |
Apple Valley, Calif. |