Four Blue Devils Earn All-Northeast Conference Recognition
Central places four on the All-NEC Second Team and Beddouri earns All-Rookie honors.
Four Central Connecticut men's soccer players earned recognition on the All-Northeast Conference teams announced at the annual awards banquet on Thursday night held on the eve of the NEC Tournament being hosted by LIU Brooklyn. Seniors Zach Zurita and Ben Knight, sophomore Ryan Taylor and freshman Louis Beddouri all earned Second Team All-NEC honors. Beddouri was also named to the All-Rookie Team.
Zurita started all 17 games for the Blue Devils and finished with four goals and an assist. His nine points ranked third on the team. In NEC play he led Central with three goals and an assist. He figured in both goals of CCSU's 2-1 win at Sacred Heart when he opened the scoring and assisted on the game-winner. Zurita also earned Second Team All-NEC honors as a junior.
Knight started 16 games for CCSU as a senior. The team's co-captain, he tallied two goals and four assists, while helping the Blue Devils post a pair of shutouts. Knight notched a four-point game with a goal and two assists in Central's 5-1 win over Massachusetts in the home-opener.
Taylor enjoyed a break out campaign, starting all 17 games and leading the Blue Devils with six goals and three assists. His goal total ranked fifth in the NEC and he ranked sixth in points. Taylor accounted for the game-winning goals in back-to-back victories at Fairleigh Dickinson and Sacred Heart.
Beddouri helped give Central one of the most dangerous forward tandems in the league. He finished with five goals and an assist in 15 games played, 13 starts. He scored a goal against UMass in his first game with CCSU and then scored a goal in each of the final two games, including the game-winner against Yale.
The Blue Devils finished the 2015 season with a 6-9-2 record overall. CCSU finished fifth in the NEC with a 3-4 record, just missing the postseason tournament by two points.