Brossard, Pilla and Perrella Claim Final MAAC Men's Soccer Weekly Awards
MAAC Sports
MAAC Offensive Player of the Week
STEPHAN BROSSARD, MARIST
F, Fr., 5-11, 165, Port Washington, N.Y./Paul d. Schreiber
Brossard, a freshman forward, tallied a goal and two assists in a 3-0 shutout over Siena on Friday night at Tenney Stadium at Leonidoff Field. He scored the first goal in the fifth minute, which proved to be the game winner, his third of the season. All of Brossard's game-winning goals have come during MAAC play. He finished his rookie season as the team's top scorer with 18 points behind seven goals and four assists.
MAAC Defensive Player of the Week
JOE PILLA, MARIST
GK, Jr., 6-1, 195, Watertown, Conn./Southern Connecticut
Pilla, a junior goalkeeper, made six saves on Friday night in a 3-0 shutout victory over Siena at Tenney Stadium at Leonidoff Field, for his sixth clean sheet of the season. The six shutouts are the most of any Marist goalkeeper since 2004 when Mike Valenti had eight shutouts. He finished the season with a goals against average of 1.09 and made 70 saves.
MAAC Rookie of the Week
MATT PERRELLA, RIDER
GK, Fr., 6-0, 175, North Brunswick, N.J./North Brunswick
Perrella, a freshman goalkeeper, tallied 10 saves in over 189 minutes of action in net for the Broncs this past week. In the regular season finale at Saint Peter's, he made five saves en route to a 1-0 overtime win over the Peacocks.