Nov. 16, 2004
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The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation announced its end of the year awards and all-conference teams for the 2004 season today and New Mexico’s Jeff Rowland and Andrew Boyens were voted co-Players of the Year. Rowland, a junior forward from Albuquerque, led the MPSF in scoring with 18 goals and five assists. Boyens is a sophomore defender from Dunedin, New Zealand, and led the Lobo backline to school-record 11 shutouts and a league-leading 0.54 goals-against-average. Boyens, a transfer from Otago University in New Zealand, was also named the Federation’s Newcomer of the Year.
Junior midfielder Lance Watson and senior goalkeeper Andrew Weber joined Boyens and Rowland on the all-MPSF 1st team. Junior midfielder Brandon Moss was named to the 2nd Team all-MPSF, while junior Ben Ashwill and seniors Hans Bevers and Jeff Krause earned honorable mention all-MPSF honors. New Mexico’s eight players on the all-MPSF team is a school record.
Rowland and Boyens are the first conference players of the year in school history. Former Lobo Edmundo Rodriguez (1991-92) was named the MPSF Mountain Division MVP in 1992. Weber makes his second appearance on the first team and his third honor overall. He was a 1st team member following his sophomore season and a second team member last year. Watson also makes his third appearance on the all-MPSF team, his first time on the 1st Team after being a second team member for his first two years at UNM. Moss and Ashwill both make their third consecutive appearances on the all-MPSF team. Moss was a first team member as a sophomore and a member of the second team as a freshman. Ashwill earned 1st Team honors following his freshman season and honorable mention last year. Both Krause and Bevers were honored for the first time in their careers.
Jeff Rowland Junior Forward 6-1 170 Albuquerque, NM; La Cueva HS
This season Rowland led the team and Mountain Pacific Sports Federation in scoring with a school-record 41 points on 18 goals and five assists… He is currently second in NCAA Division I scoring averaging 1.00 goals per games and fourth with 2.28 points per game… His 18 goals is one shy of the Lobo record for goals in a season and includes five game-winners… Earned Offensive MVP of the Nike/ALLTELL Classic at Virginia Commonwealth and Offensive MVP of the Matador Soccer Invitational at Cal State Northridge… Named CollegeSoccerNews.com National Player of the Week, Soccer America National Team of the Week and MPSF Player of the Week on September 5… Had four multi-goal games this season, including a hat trick in the season opener against Delaware… Earned Academic All-district honors for the second consecutive season… During his sophomore year, Rowland led the team in scoring with 17 points on seven goals and three assists while playing in 19 games with 14 starts… Earned Crescent Financial Solutions Tournament Offensive MVP… Academic All-MPSF and
Sophomore Andrew Boyens was named the MPSF co-Player of the Year and the MPSF Newcomer of the Year. |
academic all-district team member…Named the MPSF Player of the Week on Nov. 10… Rowland walked on to the 2002 squad as a freshman and had a huge late-season impact, scoring a goal against Air Force on October 25 and the game-winner against Denver in the semifinals of the MPSF Tournament and also scored against Bradley in the first round of the NCAA Tournament… A home grown product from Albuquerque, Rowland played at La Cueva High School and for Albuquerque United and Umbro Elite FC who were runners-up in state from 2000-02… Was a New Mexico State Olympic Development Program team member in 2000 and 2001… Jeff was born on June 18, 1984, to Jay and Virginia… He has an older sister, Virginia (26), and an older brother, Harry (24)… Majoring in Finance.
Andrew Boyens Sophomore Defender 6-4 170 Dunedin, New Zealand; Otago University
Boyens is a sophomore transfer who has had an immediate impact on this year’s team, starting every game and playing nearly every minute on the back line for a defense which recorded 11 shutouts to rank fourth in Division I team shutout percentage (.610) and fifth in team goals against average (.540), while also scoring two goals on the year… Andrew played on New Zealand’s U-23 National Team that was one game away from qualifying for the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece before losing to Australia in the Oceanic qualifying finals… He was the New Zealand Player of the Year in 2003 and participated as a member of the Otago University U-20 team that toured Argentina and Chile in 2002… Boyens played for the Dunedin Technical Club where he was named Southern Trust National League Player of the Year in 2003… Boyens was born on September 18, 1983, to John and Elsie Boyens… He has two brothers, Michael (22) and Richard (16)… He plans to major in economics.
ALL-MPSF FIRST-TEAM
Andrew Boyens Soph D New Mexico Dunedin, New Zealand
Jeff Rowland Jr F New Mexico Albuquerque, NM
Rod Dyachenko Jr F UNLV Vancouver, WA
Marcus Sagastume Sr M Air Force Colorado Spring, Colo.
Boomer Arbelaez Jr M UNLV Las Vegas, NV
Lance Watson Jr M New Mexico Nederland, TX
Liam Girard Jr D Denver Victoria, BC
Kyle Christensen So M Denver Layton, UT
Christian Bowers Sr F Denver Holladay, UT
Johnny Gonzalez Jr F San Jose State Culver City, CA
Andrew Weber Sr GK New Mexico Phoenix, AZ
ALL-MPSF SECOND-TEAM
Daniel Bolin Sr M Air Force Knoxville, TN
Brandon Moss Jr D New Mexico Albuquerque, NM
Travis Hendricks Jr M Denver Englewood, CA
Matt McDougall Jr GK Sacramento State Sacramento, CA
Pat Nelle Sr F Sacramento State Sacramento, CA
Frank Mata Sr D San Jose State San Jose, CA
Brendon Bain Sr M UNLV Beaverton, OR
Utodi Madu So D Sacramento State Sacramento, CA
Heath Creager Jr M San Diego State Glendale, AZ
Rich Halvorsen Sr D San Jose State Healdsburg, CA
HONORABLE MENTION ALL-MPSF
Ben Ashwill Jr D New Mexico Albuquerque, NM
Marcos Mercado Sr D Sacramento State Sacramento, CA
Colin Jennings So D San Diego State San Diego, CA
Hans Bevers Sr M New Mexico Antwerp, Belgium
Jeff Krause Sr M New Mexico Littleton, CO
Todd Myers Sr D Air Force Kingwood, TX
Tim McKinney Sr F San Jose State Fresno, CA