Lindenwood U. Freshman Justin Combs HITS 100 points!

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Lindenwood's Freshman Justin Combs (Towson Transfer) has 37 Goals and 37 Assists for a total of 74 points through 11 games. (Combs missed the first 2 games of the season with an injury). With 4 regular season games remaining and probably at least 2 playoff games, Combs has a chance to eclipse an amazing 100 points for the season!

[CyLaxKeeper00]

does he have an older brother 'BUGGS' that played for Maryland??

[Troy Hood]

Aaron:

You're close. "Bugsy" Combs is Justin's cousin. He is currently assisting Tony Seaman at Towson.

[LaxGuru]

S.O.S

[Jay Wisnieski]

John Tomassoni from Harding has 75 pts. through 9 games (taken from grlc.org), and they have 3 regular season games remaining. With those games, plus any playoff games Harding might get, he'll probably get 100 points as well. I don't care if it's Division A or B, 100 points in a season is not an easy thing to do. Congrats to both players if they can accomplish it.

[cjwilhelmi]

John Tomassoni from Harding has 75 pts. through 9 games (taken from grlc.org), and they have 3 regular season games remaining. With those games, plus any playoff games Harding might get, he'll probably get 100 points as well. I don't care if it's Division A or B, 100 points in a season is not an easy thing to do. Congrats to both players if they can accomplish it.

John only has two games left and then playoffs, he will miss the Southwest Missouri game (I can hear them sighing in relief from here) due to taking some test so he can be a teacher or something like that. Honestly, 25 points left... probably 4 games, he's averaging 8.33 points/game, theres a good chance he'll break 100. To be honest, he's done all that in 8 games. Lindenwood held him to 1g 1a in the first game of the year.

Hey Troy - he's beating your boy Combs

[cjwilhelmi]

Something I noticed, and I'll toss this out there for y'alls feedback, is that the great scorers have great supporting casts. They generally have at least one guy who can drive, create and dump to keep a lot of pressure off of them. Granted the big guns are doubled at every opportunity but they have a cast that makes teams second guess on the double team. Anyone else see this?

[OAKS]

Something I noticed, and I'll toss this out there for y'alls feedback, is that the great scorers have great supporting casts. They generally have at least one guy who can drive, create and dump to keep a lot of pressure off of them. Granted the big guns are doubled at every opportunity but they have a cast that makes teams second guess on the double team. Anyone else see this?

Agreed, if these kids who are putting up big numbers were on teams that were say 3-10, they wouldn't come close to putting up the same numbers. If you lack other players who can create plays or finish goals, or you are one of two or three good players on a team, the the defense will quickly lock you down and keep your numbers down. If you put Mikey Powell on say VMI or a team like that, he would have still done amazingly well, but he would not have been close to the number of points he had at 'Cuse.

[MountaineerLax]

2002 (Inaugural season)
Western State College (6-9 that year)

Justin McCrory
#77 - Attack
Freshmen
Long Island, NY

14 games - 51 goals - 24 assists - 75 pts.

3rd in Total Points (RMLC)
2nd in Total Goals (RMLC)
2 Ten-goal games.

Starting Attack combined for 169 points that season!!

2002 DIV A Stats
http://www.rmlax.com/statistics.cfm?sea ... on=Players

2002 DIV B Stats
http://www.rmlax.com/statistics.cfm?sea ... on=Players

....and didn't even get AA Honorable Mention. How do you like that?

[MinesGoallie45]

Actually that brings up a good point....how do they select All Americans for smaller Div B teams? And do the recipents have to be US lacrosse members?

[MountaineerLax]

By the way... McCrory ended up taking a scholarship the next year to Nassau College in Long Island - not sure what division they are, could be JuCo.

They have a great mascot as well - the "Uglies"

[gopherlax27]

It seems as though a lot of the players with lots of points are from smaller and less competitive schools. I know that in the UMLL, there are a lot of teams that a player can easily get 10 goals or what have you but the coach plays everyone and thus stats don't necessarily reflect on how dominant a player was. It seems as though team like CSU, BYU, UCSB and some of the other superpowers of the MDIA have less players with more stats. They either dont play an entire game after going up big early or there a others on the team who are equally capable of putting up stats and their stats wash. I dont want to knock those top scorers because scoring goals and getting assists is not an easy thing to do, but its more likely that a player from a smaller school with less talent around him that will get 100 points yet the team won't be as successful as the individual. Do people think that some of these players would have the same success had they played higher caliber teams or if they had better players around them?

Eugene Zevelev
All-Injury Team
Minnesota Gophers

[MountaineerLax]

I know that in the UMLL, there are a lot of teams that a player can easily get 10 goals or what have you but the coach plays everyone and thus stats don't necessarily reflect on how dominant a player was. It seems as though team like CSU, BYU, UCSB and some of the other superpowers of the MDIA have less players with more stats. They either dont play an entire game after going up big early or there a others on the team who are equally capable of putting up stats and their stats wash.

That brings up a very good point. I see what you're saying, and i'm not saying that guys like McCrory were better than those from CSU, BYU, etc. but I think that when a freshman comes in and plays 14 games, puts up record numbers in division B (all the greats in Division B see great playing time - usually it's all they've got), and then gets skipped over for any recognition, it's wrong. Understandable, but wrong.

See my new post: "Personal Recognition" on the general forum.

[cjwilhelmi]

Something interesting: Harding's Tomassoni leads the entire MDIA, both A and B, in points per game.

Please don't break out the "its only div B" or Guru's fav "SOS". Or the "WCLL is the only good league". Its just a pretty cool accomplishment, take it as such.

[Rad44]

I think its a great accomplishment and is absolutely desearving of All-America recognition. Let's not go off the deep end though.

goperlax's point about playing lesser teams where a player can score 10 goals has to be considered. Not in the recognition, but from the standpoint of competition. A 30 goal scorer in some B teams would probably be a good/very good 15 goal scorer on a pretty good A team.

We had a guy last year who played roughly 5 mins. a game vs. most opponents who then went out against a not very talented B team and had something like 8 goals and 3 assists. He was a proven player put in the backup position due to the depth at attack/middie, nevertheless, he dramatically boosted his season totals and was even considered for league honors based on his season totals (mostly as a result of that one game).