Hannibal-LaGrange College Dominates 2006 AMC Men's Soccer Post-Season Honors

Lebanon, Ill.. – Hannibal-LaGrange College, the 2006 American Midwest Conference regular-season champions, took home three of the four top post-season awards handed out by the conference. The 2006 AMC All-Conference team was selected by a vote of the league's eight coaches.

J.P. Wunder, a senior forward for the Trojans, was selected as the 2006 AMC Player of the Year. Wunder, from Santiago, Chile, netted 15 goals and added four assists this season to lead the conference in scoring. Wunder is a two-time first-team All-Conference selection for Hannibal-LaGrange.

The AMC Freshman of the Year honor is goes to the the top first-year player  in the conference. The 2006 recipient is Kevin Zimmerman from Hannibal-LaGrange College. Zimmerman, a forward from Cancun, Mexico, finished right behind Wunder in scoring with 12 goals and nine assists for 33 total points.

The AMC Newcomer of the Year honor, the award presented to the league's top transfer player, has been given to Jarius Holmes of McKendree College. Holmes, a junior forward from O'Fallon, Ill., contributed five goals and four assists for 14 points during his first season with the Bearcats.

The 2006 AMC Coach of the Year is David Erskine of Hannibal-LaGrange College. Now in his ninth season at the helm of the Trojans' program, Erskine led his team to new heights in 2006. Hannibal-LaGrange closed the regular season with an overall record of 15-3-0 and was ranked No. 14 in the final NAIA coaches' poll. The Trojans clinched the AMC regular-season title by going 6-1-0 in league play. Through the end of the 2006 regular season, Erskine has compiled a career record of 94-70-13 at Hannibal-LaGrange.

The Fair Play and Sportsmanship Award is annually presented to one AMC men’s soccer squad based on two areas of sportsmanship. First, teams are awarded points based on the total number of red and yellow cards accumulated throughout the regular season. Secondly, conference coaches vote on the squads, ranking their level of sportsmanship during their respective contests. The 2006 winner of the Fair Play and Sportsmanship Award is Williams Baptist College.

A complete list of the 15-member first team, honorable mention squad and the academic all-conference team, is listed below. Members of the academic all-conference team have earned at least a 3.0 grade point average on a 4.0 scale.

Columbia College
Zach Clem, Tanner Mills, Travis Tegerdine

Hannibal-LaGrange College
Joshua Bertram, Tom Heafner, Austin McDowell, Shawn Ohlms, Gilberto Romero, J.P. Wunder

Harris-Stowe State University
David Beduh, Branko Popovic, Amir Saafir, Samir Suljic, Scot Vorwold

University of Illinois at Springfield
Sean Flynn, Zach Jones

McKendree College
James Arnold, Bobby Barger, Tim Dew, Jesse Essenpreis, Santiago Hampton, Cole Harres, Joey Lofink, Carlos Marin, Ryan Miller, Dustin Pelate

Missouri Baptist University
Miles Abel, Joseph Cannon, Michael Keane

William Woods University
Matt Bruno, Javier Poveda-Lopez, Adam Reed

Williams Baptist College
Paul Brown, Kevin Cox, Chase Moore, Pablos Paredes

2006 Fair Play & Sportsmanship Award - Williams Baptist College