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Westervelt Named America East Conference Men's Lacrosse Co-Player of the Week

4/17/2007

Senior attackman Drew Westervelt was named co-America East Confernce Player of the Week for games ending April 15, 2007. He shares the honor with Hartford attackman Tom Harris.

Westervelt scored the game-winning goal with one second remaining in the second overtime in UMBC’s wild 11-10 double overtime victory over Binghamton. He now has 98 career goals, two shy of becoming 11^th Retriever to hit the 100-goal plateau. The Bel Air, Md. (John Carroll HS) native scored three goals and added two assists in the win and has back-to-back five-point games vs. league foes.  For his career, Westervelt has 43 goals and 23 assists (66 points) in 20 America East contests (3.2 ppg).

More notes on Drew Westervelt

•           He is the current fourth-leading active scorer in the country with 177 career points. He is tied for second on that list with 79 assists and seventh with 98 goals.

•           Westervelt is tenth in the nation in scoring with 3.82 points per game. He is ninth in assists (1.91 per contest) and leads the America East Conference in that category.

•           He needs two goals to become the 11^th Retriever to score 100 in a career. The attackman is seventh on UMBC’s all-time scoring list and needs just two points to replace Jason Smith (’94) in sixth place. His 79 helpers are sixth all-time and he needs two more to replace Jay Robertson (’81) in fifth place.

•           Westervelt has points in 17 straight games, which is tied for 20^th in the country. He has scored 69 points (38g-31a) in that span, an average of 4.06 points per game. He has at least a point in 53 of the 55 games he has competed in at UMBC.