ECAC Announces Division II Men's Basketball All-Stars

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CAPE COD, Mass. – Senior forward Laurence Ekperigini of Le Moyne College has been chosen as the 2009-10 ECAC Division II Men’s Basketball Player of the Year.  Ekperigin finished first in the Northeast-10 Conference in both scoring, with 606 points and 21.6 points per game, and rebounding, averaging 12.1 per game.   

Long Island University- C.W. Post freshman Jonathan Kohler has been chosen as the 2009-10 ECAC Division II Men’s Basketball Rookie of the Year, with per-game averages of 14.7 points and 3.6 rebounds.  The Pioneers forward was named the East Coast Conference Rookie of the Year for his efforts.

Joining Ekperigini on the ECAC first team are Thomas Baudinet from Saint Anselm College, Ralph Hegamin from West Chester University, Aaron Hall of Long Island University- C.W. Post, and Nemanja Jokic from Long Island University- C.W. Post.

Baudinet finished the year with 564 points, averaging 19.4 per game, along with 5.6 rebounds per game.  Hegamin, finished his senior season with 17.5 points per game, coupled with 9.4 rebounds per game.  

Hall earns accolades after helping the Pioneers to gain regional rankings with averages of 16 points per game and 6.0 rebounds per game.  Jokic also helped out C.W. Post by averaging 15.6 points and 7.5 rebounds per contest.  

The five players that were selected to the ECAC second team are: Richard Byrd of Adelphi University, Trevon Hamlet from Post University, Jon Lucky from Post University, David Seagers from Dowling College, and Greg Vetrano from Saint Anselm College.

About the ECAC
The Eastern College Athletic Conference is the nation’s largest athletic conference and only multi-divisional conference, with 319 member institutions and over 122,000 student-athletes ranging from Maine to North Carolina and westerly to Illinois.  The ECAC publicizes the achievements of over 750 student-athletes annually through the postseason all-stars.  In women’s basketball, the ECAC awards one Division II all-star team and four regional Division III all-star teams (New England, Upstate, Metro, and South).