{"id":48773,"date":"2013-08-01T15:39:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T19:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=48773"},"modified":"2013-08-01T11:44:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T15:44:51","slug":"raiders-picked-for-patriot-league-repeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=48773","title":{"rendered":"Raiders Picked for Patriot League Repeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McCarney Tabbed for Offensive Player Honors in Preseason Voting<\/p>\n<p>(Bethlehem, Pa. \u2013 July 2013) The voting was close, but Colgate is the preseason choice to repeat as Patriot League football champion in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders edged second-place Lehigh 58-56 in overall tallies and 8-6 in first-place votes from the conference head coaches and sports information directors. This year\u2019s preseason poll was released in conjunction with the annual Football Media Day here\u00a0Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, senior quarterback Gavin McCarney was named the league\u2019s Preseason Offensive Player of the Year. McCarney took home that honor at the end of last season after a spectacular season. The Jefferson Township, N.J., native led the country in scoring and now has his name on 18 different Colgate individual records.<\/p>\n<p>Other Raiders on the 2013 Patriot League Football Preseason All-League Team are fullback Ed Pavalko, offensive lineman Andrew Scarmardo and defensive back Mike Armiento. There is no second team named in the preseason.<\/p>\n<p>Colgate begins practice\u00a0Monday\u00a0and opens its season Aug. 31 at Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>2013 Patriot League Football Preseason Poll<\/p>\n<p>1. COLGATE 58 points (8 first-place votes)<\/p>\n<p>2. Lehigh 56 (6)<\/p>\n<p>3. Holy Cross 35<\/p>\n<p>4. Lafayette 32<\/p>\n<p>5. Georgetown 26<\/p>\n<p>6. Bucknell 15<\/p>\n<p>2013 Patriot League Football Preseason All-League Team<\/p>\n<p>Offense<\/p>\n<p>QB\u00a0Gavin McCarney, COLGATE (Sr.)<\/p>\n<p>RB\u00a0Carlton Koonce, Fordham (Sr.)<\/p>\n<p>RB\u00a0Ross Scheuerman, Lafayette (Jr.)<\/p>\n<p>FB\/HB\u00a0Travis Friend, Bucknell (Sr.)<\/p>\n<p>FB\/HB\u00a0Ed Pavalko, COLGATE (Jr.)<\/p>\n<p>WR\u00a0Mike Fess, Holy Cross (Sr.)<\/p>\n<p>WR\u00a0Mark Ross, Lafayette (Sr.)<\/p>\n<p>WR\u00a0Brian Wetzel, Fordham (Jr.)<\/p>\n<p>TE\u00a0Dan Light, Fordham (Jr.)<\/p>\n<p>OL\u00a0Luke Chiarolanzio, Lafayette (Jr.)<\/p>\n<p>OL\u00a0Ned Daryoush, Lehigh (Jr.)<\/p>\n<p>OL\u00a0Kyle Pedretty, Holy Cross (Sr.)<\/p>\n<p>OL\u00a0Andrew Scarmardo, COLGATE (Sr.)<\/p>\n<p>OL\u00a0James Spaly, Georgetown (Sr.)<\/p>\n<p>RS\u00a0Kalif Raymond, Holy Cross (So.)<\/p>\n<p>PK\u00a0John Macomber, Holy Cross (Sr.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/COLGATE-C-GATE.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-39103\" alt=\"COLGATE C-GATE\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/COLGATE-C-GATE-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/COLGATE-C-GATE.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/COLGATE-C-GATE.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Defense<\/p>\n<p>DL\u00a0Gary Acquah, Holy Cross (Sr.)<\/p>\n<p>DL\u00a0Sean Campbell, Georgetown (Sr.)<\/p>\n<p>DL\u00a0Sean Sellers, Bucknell (Sr.)<\/p>\n<p>DL\u00a0Tracey Smith, Bucknell (Sr.)<\/p>\n<p>LB\u00a0Mike Boles, Lafayette (Sr.)<\/p>\n<p>LB\u00a0Evan Byers, Bucknell (Jr.)<\/p>\n<p>LB\u00a0Nigel Muhammad, Lehigh (Sr.)<\/p>\n<p>LB\u00a0Dustin Wharton, Georgetown (Sr.)<\/p>\n<p>DB\u00a0Mike Armiento, COLGATE (Jr.)<\/p>\n<p>DB\u00a0Jared Roberts, Lafayette (Jr.)<\/p>\n<p>DB\u00a0Matthew Steinbeck, Bucknell (Jr.)<\/p>\n<p>DB\u00a0Ian Williams, Fordham (Sr.)<\/p>\n<p>P\u00a0John Macomber, Holy Cross (Sr.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Offensive Player of the Year \u2013 Gavin McCarney, QB, COLGATE<\/p>\n<p>Defensive Player of the Year \u2013\u00a0Dustin Wharton, LB, Georgetown<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McCarney Tabbed for Offensive Player Honors in Preseason Voting (Bethlehem, Pa. \u2013 July 2013) The voting was close, but Colgate is the preseason choice to repeat as Patriot League football champion in 2013. The Raiders edged second-place Lehigh 58-56 in overall tallies and 8-6 in first-place votes from the conference head coaches and sports information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-cGF","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}