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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Carberry, Porter Head All Met Div. II Men’s Teams
NEW YORK (April 11, 2013) – Tobin Carberry of LIU Post and Leon Porter of Dominican have been named All Met Division II men’s college basketball Co-Players of the Year by the Met Basketball Writers Association.
Joe Clinton of Dominican was named Coach of the Year for a second time.
The rest of the All Met First Team: Antoine Obery, Felician; John Petrucelli, Molloy; Argelix Gil, Concordia; Cory Quimby, Dominican.
The Second Team: Vaughn Allen, LIU Post; Marvin Williams, Bloomfield; Justin Brown, St. Thomas Aquinas; Joseph Pope, Mercy; Patrick Parker, Queens; Norman Pope, Concordia.
The All Met teams will be honored April 15 at the 80th NIT/MBWA Haggerty Awards dinner at the Westchester Marriott, Tarrytown, NY.
A 6-foot-2 senior guard from Hamden, CT, Carberry led the East Coast Conference with 18.6 points per game, along with total points, field goals and 3-point goals. He also had 5.8 rebounds. Carberry put up double digits in every game he played this season, along with 20-plus points 14 times. He shot 45.7% from the field, including 39.9% beyond the arc. He ranks in the top 10 on the Pioneers’ all time scoring list (1,244 points), shooting 45.9% for his career. Carberry was named ECC Player of the Year.
A 5-5 senior guard from Laurel, MD, Porter ranked 11th in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference with 15.5 ppg and fifth in free throw percentage (83.6%). He had 122 assists (4.2 apg), 1.3 steals and scored 449 points this season to finish third on the Chargers all-time scoring list with 1,757 points.
Clinton guided the Chargers to 22-7 overall record (15-3 conference), winning the CACC North Division regular season title. The team received an at-large berth in the NCAA men’s Division II tournament, but fell short to New Haven in the opener. Named CACC Coach of the Year, Clinton previously ws tapped as the Met Writers Coach of the Year in 1996.
SUMMARY
NEW YORK (April 11, 2013) – The 2012-13 All Met Division II men’s college basketball teams announced Thursday by the Met Basketball Writers Association.
FIRST TEAM
Tobin Carberry, LIU Post6-2, sr, G(Hamden, CT)
Leon Porter, Dominican5-5, sr, G(Laurel, MD)
Cory Quimby, Dominican6-6, sr, F(Otisville, NY)
Antoine Obery, Felician6-4, sr, F/G(Roselle, NJ)
John Petrucelli, Molloy6-4, jr, F(Hicksville, NY)
Argelix Gil, Concordia6-5, sr, F(Brooklyn, NY)
SECOND TEAM
Vaughn Allen, LIU Post6-5, jr, F(Mount Vernon, NY)
Marvin Williams, Bloomfield6-0, so, G(Jersey City, NJ)
Justin Brown, STAC6-5, sr, G(Uniondale, NY)
Joseph Pope, Mercy6-4, sr, F/G(Akron, OH)
Patrick Parker, Queens6-1, jr, G(Queens, NY)
Norman Pope, Concordia5-11, jr, G(Washington, DC)
Co-Player of the Year: Tobin Carberry, LIU Post
Co-Player of the Year: Leon Porter, Dominican
Coach of the Year: Joe Clinton, Dominican
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