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The United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association selected seven Syracuse players to its Preseason All-American teams on Wednesday. The Orange had the most players after Duke (10).

Top-line midfielder Brendan Curry and returning starting goalie Drake Porter both earned first-team honors. Atlantic Coast Conference rivals Virginia and Duke were the only other teams to receive multiple first-team mentions.

Curry, a two-time All-American, earned first-team honors last season. Porter led the ACC in save percentage the last two years and made the 2020 Inside Lacrosse All-America second team.

Another top-line midfielder from last year, Jamie Trimboli, who’s coming back for a fifth year, was selected for the preseason second team. Trimboli made the First Team last year and was on pace to have the highest goal-scoring year of his career before the pandemic cut the 2020 season short.

Short-stick midfielder Peter Dearth and long-stick midfielder Brett Kennedy also earned second-team honors. Kennedy played close defense last year and could repeat that role in 2021. Both Kennedy and Dearth were All-Americans last year.

Attack Chase Scanlan and Tucker Dordevic, the third of Syracuse’s top midfield line from a year ago, rounded out the Orange selections with honorable mentions. Scanlan scored a team-high 18 goals through five games, and Dordevic earned 14 points. Both were honorable mentions in Inside Lacrosse’s 2020 All-American picks.

Published on January 27, 2021 at 4:38 pm

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