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ead coach Seamus McFadden, in his
tenth season with the Toreros, once
again coached his team to a successful
year with a record of 14-6-1, but fell one game
short of a NCAA playoff position. This years
competition included schools such as SDSU,
UCSB, Santa Clara, and UCSD.
This years team was led by Tom Crane and
Leo Ronces. Both players scored fourteen
g_oals a piece and led the team in total points.
Tom Crane felt that his toughest goal was
against the University of Nevada, Las Vegas,
the school is a big rivalry and the first goal of
the game was made by myself." Other return–
ing starters include Trong Nguyen, last years
all conference first team selection in the West
Coast Conference, Vince Bianchi, and Jason
Jason Peal'IIOn,
closing
the aeaaon with three 1oala and five
aaeista wu
fifth
in total point& for the season. He ia seen here
fightina for the ball againat
Cal
Poly Pomona.
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At the helm defensively was Doug Wedge.
This year, Doug played in all twenty-one
games compiling a total time of 1928:33 on the
field, a record time for the Toreros. Doug said,
"It's nice to
be
able to break the record. I have
two years to go and hope to set a new record
before I leave the school." Included in his time
of play are four shutouts and 46 saves.
Other defenders include Mike Brille, who
drops from his forward position to assist de–
fensively, Brendan Griffin, and Jason Chaffee.
Coach McFadden felt, "We had a very suc–
cessful season in terms of the number of wins
and in any other year fourteen wins would
have gotten us in the playoffs. We really just
fell one game short of the playoffs."
Brendan Griffin
is
1bowin1 some fancy footwork; Bren–
dan
cloeed
the &e880n with two 1oala and one aaaiat.
Eric Deutsch closed the season with one goal and two assists.
Seen here Eric shows no remorse when the opponent from Cal
Poly decided to challenge him.