The Minnesota College Athletic Conference has named the men's and women's soccer All-Conference teams for the 2018 season.
The MCAC Men's Soccer All-Conference team, as selected by the Conference coaches, is as follows:
| 2018 MCAC Soccer All-Conference | |
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Gabe Monaighan Fr. / Forward Anoka-Ramsey Community College |
Monaighan led ARCC with ten goals, three assists for a total of23 points. He had three game winners, including two in overtime; Monaighan was named Region XIII Player-of-the-Year by Region coaches. |
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Boris Mutavdzic So. / Goalkeeper Lake Superior College |
As Lake Superior's starting goalkeeper, he started six games while recording 5 wins and 1 loss. His save percentage was .821 for the season. |
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Ulises Juarez Fr. / Forward Anoka-Ramsey Community College |
The freshman striker had seven goals and five assists for a total of 19 points on a season in which ARCC won both the MCAC regular season and Region XIII championships. |
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Leonardo Almeida So. / Forward Lake Superior College |
As captain of the LSC squad, Almeida appeared in 11 games and scored 11 goals and chipped in two assists to lead the IceHawks in scoring. |
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Dylan White So. / Midfield Anoka-Ramsey Community College |
The sophomore patrolled the Golden Ram midfield, notching four goals and two assists for a total of 10 points in the 2018 season. |
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Joseph Bacon Fr. / Defense Riverland Community College |
Bacon, a freshman at Riverland Community College, anchored a Blue Devil defense that had six shutouts in the 2018 season. |
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Jafaar Abdulrahman Fr. / Defense Anoka-Ramsey Community College |
A center-back for an Anoka-Ramsey team that allowed only six goals in conference play; he also added an assist and a goal from the Golden Ram defense. |
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Ben Stannard Fr. / Midfield Anoka-Ramsey Community College |
Stannard's four assists were second-most on the Anoka-Ramsey squad; the freshman midfielder also had two goals on the season. |
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Sebastian Romero Garcia So. / Defense Lake Superior College |
Coach Jeff Lightfoot noted that as captain, Sebastian was a key element in the strong Lake Superior defense and served as a tremendous leader for the team. |
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Sebastian Ballestros Fr. / Midfield Riverland Community College |
Ballestros had nine assists on the year to to lead his Riverland Community College team during MCAC play in 2018. |
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Dicke Boucka So. / Midfield Anoka-Ramsey Community College |
Boucka had a solid sophomore campaign for the ARCC Golden Rams, contributing three goals and two assists for a total of eight points, as Anoka-Ramsey won the MCAC regular season and advanced to the NJCAA District C tournament semi-finals. |
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Evan Daley Fr. / Defense Anoka-Ramsey Community College |
Part of the Anoka-Ramsey center-back pairing that limited Conference opponents to only six goals on the year. Also added a goal to the Golden Ram attack. |
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Jose Pena Porras So. / Midfield Lake Superior College |
A sophomore central midfielder from Lake Superior College, Pena Porras was a versatile midfielder who is strong defensively while being creative in the attack. He recorded three goals and three assists during the 2018 season. |
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Lorence Kurth Fr. / Forward Anoka-Ramsey Community College |
The freshman forward found the back of the net often for ARCC, with six goals and two assists, for 14 total points on the year. |
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Gerson Maldonado-Garcia Fr. / Defense Anoka-Ramsey Community College |
Serving primarily as the right back on a team which only conceded six goals in MCAC play, Maldonado-Garcia also had a goal and an assist for the 2018 Golden Ram team. |
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Nicolas Ballesteros So. / Midfield Lake Superior College |
Ballesteros played as the IceHawks holding midfielder and had a superb season as the organizer and on-the-field leader for the Lake Superior College squad. He recorded 1 goal and 1 assist in 2018. |
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Brady Eichorn-Hicks Coach-of-the-Year Anoka-Ramsey Community College |
Eichorn-Hicks has served as the head men's soccer coach since the program's inception in 2009. He was also tabbed the 2018 Region XIII men's soccer coach-of-the-year, with his Golden Ram team netting both the MCAC regular season and Region XIII championships this past fall. |
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About the Minnesota College Athletic Conference
The Minnesota College Athletic Conference is the organizational body for NJCAA-affiliated two-year technical and community college athletic programs in the Minnesota State system. The mission of the Minnesota College Athletic Conference is to advance intercollegiate athletics by providing an engaging and supportive environment for success of our student athletes and competition among member institutions. The MCAC is committed to the guiding principles of encouraging the development and success of student athletes, promoting the integrity, honesty and loyalty to member schools as well as upholding the sustainability of conference athletic programs.