WEST BABYLON, N.Y. – The East Coast Conference announced its 2024 Men’s Lacrosse All-Conference honorees and major award winners on Tuesday afternoon ahead of the 2024 ECC Men’s Lacrosse Championship, set to begin with semifinals action on Wednesday. Frostburg State graduate student attackman Bubba Love (Westminster, Md.) was named the Offensive Player of the Year while Mercy graduate student close defenseman Justin Gerdvil (East Northport, N.Y.) was honored as the Defensive Player of the Year for the third year in a row. Mercy freshman goalkeeper Cameron Dorfman (West Islip, N.Y.) was tabbed both the Goalkeeper of the Year and Rookie of the Year while Mercy’s Ryan MacSpadyen repeated as Coach of the Year. All voting was completed by the league’s seven head coaches.
Love opened his standout year with a career-high 13 points on a career-high eight goals and season-high five assists against Wheeling on February 24 and never looked back en route to a league-tying 78 points on 43 goals and a league-tying 35 assists with 12 games of four or more points. The two-time ECC Offensive Player of the Week finished the regular season as the only player to rank in the ECC’s top five in points per game (T-1st, 5.20), assists per game (T-2nd, 2.33), AND goals per game (5th, 2.87) this spring. In conference action, Love totaled 34 points (3rd) on 20 goals (T-3rd) and 14 assists (T-2nd), including seven points in home wins over St. Thomas Aquinas (4g, 3a) and District of Columbia (3g, 4a), six points on six goals in a narrow 12-11 home loss to Mercy, and five points in road wins over Molloy (2g, 3a) and Roberts Wesleyan (4g, 1a).
Ranking seventh nationally with 5.20 points per game and on 2.33 assists per game (10th nationally) and 2.87 goals per game (25th nationally), Love leads a Frostburg State offense that averages 16.87 goals per game, which ranks fifth in all of Division II.
On the other end of the field, Gerdvil and Dorfman anchored a Mercy defense that held its regular-season opponents to just 9.31 goals scored per game, which ranked 13th in all of Division II this spring.
A three-time ECC Defensive Player of Week this season, Gerdvil caused 29 turnovers this year, good for second in the ECC and 20th in all of Division II with a mark of 2.23 per game. Gerdvil also ranked 10th in the conference, and second among ECC close defensemen, with 3.46 ground balls per game (45 total). In conference action, Gerdvil scooped up 14 ground balls and forced 15 turnovers, including six ground balls and a season-high five caused turnovers in a road win over Roberts Wesleyan and six ground balls and four caused turnovers in a road win over Frostburg State. Additional notable performances in non-conference play include six ground balls apiece in road wins over Saint Rose and Seton Hall and a narrow one-goal loss at Adelphi as well as four caused turnovers in a home win over Georgian Court.
A three-time ECC Defensive Player of the Week and six-time ECC Rookie of the Week in his freshman campaign, Dorfman went 9-1 overall (4-0 ECC) in his first collegiate season between the pipes, leading the ECC in goals against average (8.72) and save percentage (.576) with 110 saves against 81 goals allowed in 557:12. In conference action, Dorfman turned in a 5.54 goals against average and .633 save percentage, anchoring Mercy to a 12-11 road win over Roberts Wesleyan before holding District of Columbia (2 GA), St. Thomas Aquinas (1 GA), and D’Youville (4 GA) to an average of 2.3 goals per game.
In his second year at the helm, MacSpadyen once again led the Mavericks to a perfect 6-0 record in ECC play, guiding Mercy to its fifth straight ECC regular-season title. The back-to-back ECC Coach of the Year now owns a 26-5 overall record and unblemished 12-0 record in regular-season conference action.
2024 ECC Men's Lacrosse All-Conference
First Team
A - Greg Gibbons, Mercy
A - Bubba Love, Frostburg State
A - Gunner MacMillan, Roberts Wesleyan
M - Chase Buckwalter, Frostburg State
M - Andrew Calabria, Mercy
M - Devon Duchnowski, Mercy
D - Justin Gerdvil, Mercy
D - Brady Kustra, Roberts Wesleyan
D - Luke McCullough, Frostburg State
LSM - Seamus Kearney, Frostburg State
SSDM - Damiano Ferrara, Mercy
FO - Jason Kuehner, Mercy
GK - Cameron Dorfman, Mercy
Second Team
A - Jordon Deats, Roberts Wesleyan
A - TJ Heyder, Mercy
A - Austin Sipes, Frostburg State
M - Brian Diliberto, Molloy
M - Owen McCallum, Frostburg State
M - Nick Sholett, D'Youville
D - Thomas Kofod, Molloy
D - Logan Schwartz, D'Youville
D - Owen Stephenson, Mercy
LSM - Luke Delavak, Roberts Wesleyan
SSDM -Tyler Pjatak, Mercy
FO - Alex Walstrum, Frostburg State
GK - Christian Michaels, Molloy
Offensive Player of the Year: Bubba Love, Frostburg State
Defensive Player of the Year: Justin Gerdvil, Mercy
Goalkeeper of the Year: Cameron Dorfman, Mercy
Rookie of the Year: Cameron Dorfman, Mercy
Coach of the Year: Ryan MacSpadyen, Mercy