Our story on All NEC football

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As it brought home the Northeast Conference championship in football this
season, Monmouth University (10-1) brought home a bevy of awards when NEC post
season honors were announced Tuesday.
Monmouth coach Kevin Callahan was named NEC Coach of the Year for the third time in his career and freshman running back David Sinisi
NEC Offensive Rookie of the Year.
Overall, 11 Monmouth players received honors equaling its team high first set in 2004 when it went 10-1.
Named to the All-NEC first team offense were Monmouth senior quarterback
Brian Boland, a Brick Memorial High School graduate, and senior wide out Adam San Miguel.
Monmouth
seniors Matt Connolly and Jonathon Dunn were named to the first-team
offensive line.
Two Hawks were named first team on defense in senior Mike Castellano (Freehold
Township), a three-time honoree at linebacker, as well as senior Matt Hill in
the secondary.
Named second team on offense from Monmouth were Sinisi and junior tight end
John Nalbone while defensively cited were senior linemen Brian Sweeney, Erik
Yngstrom (Freehold Township), and corner David Jiles.
""I'm happy that our players have been rewarded for all of their hard work
and dedication,'' said Callahan. ""They are very deserving to be recognized
as
All-Conference performers.''
As for his own award Callahan, alsohonored in 1998 and 2003, gave credit to his staff. ""While
being recognized by your peers as Coach of the Year is a good thing, the
award is really more indicative of the hard work our entire coaching staff
puts in throughout the year,'' he said.
Now in his 14th season as Monmouth's only coach, Callahan has led the Hawks to five NEC championships since the inception of the league in 1996, including three of
the last four years.
The Hawks will represent the NEC in the Gridiron Classic against
Pioneer Football League champion San Diego (10-0) at noon Dec. 2 at Kessler Field.
Sinisi finished the regular season first among NEC
freshman rushers and third overall with 716 yards on 4.4 yards per carry.
Boland helped lead the Hawks
to their first outright NEC Championship throwing for 2,208 yards and 14 TD, and enters the postseason with 7,667
career passing yards, second in NEC history.
San Miguel tops the NEC with 6.36 receptions and 78.7 yards per game,
while totaling 866 receiving yards on 70 catches, including six touchdowns.
Monmouth's 11 selections was tops in
the league, with Albany and Robert Morris each having 10.
Stony Brook defensive back Cory Giddings, a graduate of Ocean Toswnship
High School, was named NEC Defensive Rookie of the Year.
Wagner junior Piotr Czech, a graduate of Keyport High School, was named All NEC
first team place kicker.

- Tony Graham

Also....Josh Dudash (TR South)..was named seond team QB

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