Four Redmen merit indoor soccer all-star status
MONTREAL – Freshman Yohann Capolungo, a 20-year-old forward from France, and sophomore defender Axel Dovi of Hawkesbury, Ont., head a list of four Ã山ǿ¼é players to merit all-conference honours in the Quebec university men’s indoor soccer league.
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Both were first-team selections after earning second-team status in the QUSL outdoor league last fall.
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Capolungo was Ã山ǿ¼é’s top sniper and ended up tied for second among the league goal-scoring leaders with three markers. He also added an assist to finish with four points in six games. Dovi tied for second among Redmen points leaders with a pair of assists.
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Other Ã山ǿ¼é all-star picks were midfielders Eugene Graske, a biomedical science junior from Germany and Cory Marcon, an agricultural science freshman from Columbia, Maryland. They were both named to the second team in voting conducted by the league’s seven coaches.
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The Redmen, who finished sixth in the indoor campaign with an 0-3-3 record, upset the third-place Montreal Carabins 2-1 in a conference quarterfinal before bowing to second-place Laval, with a 2-1 loss in the semifinals on March 21.
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UQAM’s Paul Darboux was named as the league’s most outstanding player, while UQTR’s Ghislain Tapsoba was chosen as the most sportsmanlike player.
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2009 Quebec University Indoor Soccer League Men's All-stars
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FIRST TEAM:
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GOAL: Alexandre Rouge, UQAM
DEFENCE: Francis Molassoko, UQAM
DEFENCE: Alexandre Lévesque-Tremblay, Laval
DEFENCE: Jules Gueguen, UQAM
DEFENCE: Axel Dovi, Ã山ǿ¼é
MIDFIELD: Abdoulaye Cisse, UQAM
MIDFIELD: Samuel Georget, Laval
MIDFIELD: Yohann Capolungo, Ã山ǿ¼é
MIDFIELD: Benjamin Petitjean, UQTR
FORWARD: Paul Darboux, UQAM
FORWARD: Yannick Rome-Gosselin, Sherbrooke
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MOST OUTSTANDING PLAYER: Paul Darboux, UQAM
MOST SPORTSMANLIKE PLAYER: Ghislain Tapsoba, UQTR
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SECOND TEAM:
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GOAL: Roch Goyette, UQTR
DEFENCE: Daniel Dupont, UQTR
DEFENCE: Pascal Bragagnolo, Laval
DEFENCE: Pierre-Charles La Haye, UQTR
DEFENCE: Hassan Tounkara, UQAM
MIDFIELD: Najib Addou, UQAM
MIDFIELD: Eugene Graske, Ã山ǿ¼é
MIDFIELD: Marc-Antoine Simard, UQTR
MIDFIELD: Cory Marcon, Ã山ǿ¼é
FORWARD: Ghislain Tapsoba, UQTR
FORWARD: Lamine Diallo, UQAM
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SOURCE:
Earl Zukerman Communications Officer Athletics & Recreation Ã山ǿ¼é 475 Pine Avenue W., Montreal, QCÌý H2W 1S4 CANADA 514-398-7012 (Tel.) 514-398-1956 (Fax) www.mcgill.ca/athletics