Moon Township, Pa. - Senior captain Trevor Moore (Port Coquitlam, British Columbia / Western Reserve Academy) and junior long-stick midfielder Mike Meagher (Chesterfield, Mo. / St. Louis University) of the Robert Morris University men's lacrosse team both earned honors from the Northeast Conference (NEC) in the league's initial release of the season Monday.
Moore was chosen as the NEC Player of the Week while Meagher was tabbed NEC Co-Defensive Player of the Week--since this is the NEC's inaugural recognition of 2011, both awards cover the first three weeks of the season.
It is the second career in-season NEC recognition for Moore who also collected honors in the NEC's first release in 2010 when he was named Player of the Month. He becomes the first Colonial to receive multiple in-season honors from the NEC, which is in its first official season as a men's lacrosse conference and started presenting league awards last season. Moore also earned a weekly honor when Robert Morris competed in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) in 2008.
Meagher is the first player in school history to earn defensive player of the week honors from any league. He also becomes the fourth active Colonial to have earned an in-season award from the NEC in his career and the fifth active RMU player to have earned in-season recognition from any league.
Moore has picked up where he left off after being named the NEC Player of the Year in 2010 by posting impressive offense numbers in each of the Colonials' three contests thus far. He opened the season with a hat trick at No. 3 North Carolina (on just three shots), the second consecutive season he put home three tallies against a top-five UNC squad. In RMU's home opener against Hobart, Moore, a 2010 All-American, recorded the ninth game of his career with at least four goals and also collected a career-high four ground balls.
The captain, who was recently selected as a candidate for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award, continued to lead the Colonials this past Saturday against Manhattan as his four-point day (two goals, two assists) allowed him to break Robert Morris' all-time goals record (93). He fired 13 shots at the Jasper cage, a career high, and the second-best single-game mark in school history. Moore leads the team in goals (9), points (11), shots (25) and SOG (16) in 2011 and has recorded at least one point in 33 consecutive games, the third-longest active streak in the country. He strikes often as well as frequently as he has registered at least three points in 18 of his last 20 games and entered the week tied for seventh nationally in goals per game.
Meagher registered three caused turnovers against both No. 3 North Carolina and Hobart. Those performances have helped him move into second place in RMU history with .95 caused turnovers per game (min. five games). Meagher has recorded multiple ground balls in every RMU game thus far and set a new career high with four against the Statesmen. He has eight ground balls and six caused turnovers in 2011 and has helped RMU to improved efforts on the defensive end as Robert Morris held both the Tar Heels and the Jaspers to their lowest-ever goal totals in their all-time series history with the Colonials.
Robert Morris commences a three-game road trip Tuesday, March 1 when it faces Colgate for the first time in school history. The opening faceoff is set for 4:00 p.m.
