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Three Baldwin-Wallace College Men’s Soccer Players Named to All-OAC Team

Complete All-OAC Team and Special Award Winners

BEREA, OHIO -- The Baldwin-Wallace College men’s soccer team placed three players on the 2008 All-Ohio Athletic Conference team announced today (Wednesday, November 12, 2008). Junior defender Cory Weidner (Rocky River),  junior midfielder Andy Synk (Strongsville) and freshman forward Carlin Vandendriessche (Medina/Senior) each were named to the second-team.


Cory Weidner

Andy Synk

Carlin Vandendriessche

Weidner scored three times in 2008 with each goal serving as a game-winner.  He also helped lead the Yellow Jacket defense to four shutouts and a 1.28 goals-against-average  this fall.

Synk, also a second-team ESPN THE MAGAZINE Academic All-District IV pick, finished third on the squad with 13 points and totaled a team and OAC-best nine assists this season. He also led the OAC with 0.53 assists per game.

Vandendriessche made an immediate impact during his freshman season by scoring a team-high nine goals. He also had an assist, a team-high 19 points scored and tied Weidner for the team lead with three game-winners . Vandendriessche also was seventh in the conference in goals per game (0.47).

B-W finished the season with a 12-6-1 overall mark for its fifth straight winning season and won 2008 team titles at the Penn State Behrend (Pa.) College Tournament and at the OAC versus the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Invitational.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, please contact Sports Information Director Kevin Ruple by telephone at 440-826-2327 or via e-mail at kruple@bw.edu.  You can contact Asst. SID Nick Minerd at 440-826-2780 or via e-mail at nminerd@bw.edu. You can contact Head Soccer Coach Reid Ayers by phone at 440-826-3839 or via e-mail at rayers@bw.edu. You can get all of the latest athletics information via the B-W Athletics Web site at www.bw.edu/athletics.

FOR MORE OHIO ATHLETIC CONFERENCE INFORMATION, please call Media Relations Director Lindsay Rickel at the OAC at 330-259-9090 or e-mail her at lrickel@oac.org. The OAC Web site can be accessed at www.oac.org.