NEW YORK—Villanova added three more weekly BIG EAST honors to its season tally this week when the league announced its latest award winners and Honor Roll selections on Monday afternoon. Fifth year midfielder
Matt Campbell (Madison, N.J.) and fifth year goalie
Will Vitton (Summit, N.J.) were named the BIG EAST Midfielder of the Week and Defensive Player of the Week, respectively, while fifth year attackman
Patrick Daly (Shrewsbury, Mass.) landed on the Honor Roll.
Through the first seven weeks of the 2013 season the Wildcats have earned 16 weekly conference honors. Campbell has accounted for five of those awards, including three Midfielder of the Week nods to go along with a pair of Honor Roll selections. Vitton has been the Defensive Player of the Week on three occasions to go along with one Honor Roll nod, while Daly has been recognized three times on the year. He was the Attack Player of the Week following the first week of the season and has since been named to the Honor Roll twice.
This week's awards were announced on Monday afternoon just as Villanova was taking the field to play Brown in its final non-conference game of the season. The honors are for the week of March 20-26 when the Wildcats defeated Navy, 17-6, in their lone outing of the week. During that contest Campbell became the third player in school history to reach the milestone of 200 career points and he tied a career high with eight points thanks to two goals and a career high six assists.
Vitton recorded 11 saves while only allowing four goals against Navy. It marked the fourth straight game that he had 10+ stops and the victory was the 33
rd of his career, putting him one shy of tying the school record for goalie wins which is held by
Joe Canuso (2003-06). The outing against the Midshipmen was the last of a five-game stretch in which Vitton compiled a 6.58 goals-against average and a .624 save percentage while averaging 10.6 saves per contest.
Daly had a season-high five goals against Navy and had a hat trick by the 13:57 mark of the second quarter. He scored his first goal of the game with 2:03 remaining in the third period, added another tally with 24 seconds left in the quarter and notched his third goal early in the second period. The five-goal performance marked the seventh time in the first eight games of the season that Daly scored three or more goals.
Villanova opens BIG EAST play this weekend when it hosts St. John's for a 1 p.m. matchup at Villanova Stadium.