Yellowjackets’ Charles, Hoskins and Milroy Named 1st-Team
CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine District 7 Academic-All Stars

BILLINGS, Mont. – Montana State Billings men’s soccer student-athletes Sam Charles, Justin Hoskins and Tom Milroy have been named to the first-team College Sports Information Directors of America/ESPN The Magazine College Division District 7 Academic All-Stars.

Milroy, a junior defender from Aberdeen, Scotland, is a health and human performance major and carries a 3.90 grade point average on a 4.0 scale.  Hoskins, a senior forward from Billings, Mont., has a 3.89 grade point average in accounting, while Charles, a junior forward from Chiswell, England, also is a health and human performance major and has a 3.70 grade point average.

All three student-athletes move on to the national ballot with the Academic All-America team scheduled to be announced Wednesday, Nov. 19 

Charles leads the team and the conference with 17 goals, four assists and 38 points.  He is sixth nationally in goals per game (1.13) and seventh in points at a 2.53 clip.  He has seven game winners this season to lead the team as well.  He has played and started in all 15 games.

Hoskins is third on the team in goals with three and has six points on the year.  He has seven shots and six on goal and has played and started in all 15 games, helping the ‘Jackets to a 9-6 record and a 2-3 record in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference.

Milroy leads the Yellowjacket defense and has played and started all 15 games.  He has one assist on the year with two shots and one on goal.  He assisted on Charles’ first goal against Saint Martin’s (Oct. 2) which helped give the Yellowjackets their first conference victory of the season.  Milroy has helped lead the Yellowjackets to six shutouts this season and a team, goals against average of 1.05.

MSUB leads the first team with three players named.  Rockhurst College had two named to the first team.  Seattle Pacific’s Andy Wolverton is the only other GNAC team to have a player named to the first or second team.  SPU is in District 8. 

The Yellowjackets conclude the home portion of the schedule Friday at 3:30 p.m. at the College of Technology Field against Western Washington.  Prior to the game, MSUB will honor eight seniors who will be playing their final home game.

District VII
FIRST TEAM
GK Josh Tinaglia MESA STATE VII Jr. Littleton, Colo. 3.44 Criminal justice
M Trevor Martinet COLORADO STATE VII Sr. Pueblo, Colo. 4.00 Business
M Jared Smith MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS VII Sr. Hazelwood, Mo. 3.85 Business and finance
M Sam Stremlau ROCKHURST VII Sr. St. Louis, Mo. 3.87 Business marketing
D Jimmer Comerford COLORADO COLLEGE VII Sr. Grand Junction, Colo. 3.86 Biology
D Nate Minkel LORAS VII Jr. Marshalltown, Iowa 3.94 Accounting, economics
D Tom Milroy MONTANA ST.-BILLINGS VII Jr. Aberdeen, Scotland 3.90 Health and human performance
D Caleb Haydon ROCKHURST VII Sr. St. Louis, Mo. 3.81 History
F Logan Boccard COLORADO COLLEGE VII Sr. Broomfield, Colo. 3.88 Biology
F Sam Charles MONTANA ST.-BILLINGS VII Jr. Chiswell, England 3.70 Health and human performance
F Justin Hoskins MONTANA ST.-BILLINGS VII Sr. Billings, Mont. 3.89 Accounting

SECOND TEAM
GK Matt Mayfield MORNINGSIDE VII So. Cedar Rapids, Iowa 3.81 Psychology counseling
M Kyle Samuelson ROCKHURST VII Jr. Omaha, Neb. 3.47 English
M Santiago Mejia LORAS VII Jr. Cali, Colombia 3.33 Electromechanical engineering
M Ben Beadle-Ryby COLORADO COLLEGE VII Sr. Loveland, Colo. 3.61 Mathematical economics
D Tim Haiar PRESENTATION VII Jr. Aberdeen, S.D. 3.87 Biology
D Jamie Scope INCARNATE WORD VII Jr. Newcastle, England 3.77 Kinesiology
D Matt Winegard SIMPSON (IA) VII Jr. Muscatine, Iowa 3.79 Biology
D Charlie Reitz ROCKHURST VII Sr. St. Louis, Mo. 3.45 Business management
D JP Prouty GRINNELL VII Jr. Stilwell, Kan. 3.37 Biological chemistry
F John Hengel WASHINGTON (MO) VII Jr. Milwaukee, Wis. 3.53 Finance
F Ignacio Novas LINDENWOOD VII Sr. Montevideo, Uruguay 3.44 Physical ed., sports mgmt.
F Andrew Walsh GRINNELL VII Sr. Madison, Wis. 3.46 Spanish