WORCESTER, MA- The Wheaton College men's lacrosse team had three players named to Pilgrim League All-Conference squads on Monday during the postseason coaches meeting at Clark University, as senior Jeff Gomer (Duxbury, MA/Duxbury) and sophomore Ben Cederberg (Duxbury, MA/Duxbury) landed on the first team for the league's runner up, while sophomore Cody Powers (Scarborough, ME/Scarborough) earned second-squad laurels.

After receiving a second-team accolade as a sophomore, Gomer drew his initial first-squad honor. A face-off specialist and short-stick defender from his midfield position, Gomer is among the league leaders with 71 ground balls, 90 face-off wins and a 54.5-percent success rate on draws. He is fourth in the league in ground balls per game but is also tops among Pilgrim players in man-up tallies (10) for the nation's eighth-best man-up offense.

In league play, Gomer recorded five man-up goals, averaged 1.1 goals and 1.9 points, and won 70.0 percent of his face-off attempts, turning in 8.0 victories and 6.0 ground balls per contest. The program's career leader in ground balls (275) is second all time at Wheaton in face-off wins (402). A co-captain, Gomer is tied for third in games (59).

A second-team pick as a freshman, Cederberg became the first player in program history to draw all-league honors in each of his first two years of college. The attackman paces the squad in assists (22) and points (45) while having scored 23 goals, just one off the team lead. Six of his tallies came in man-up situations. Cederberg has the most assists by a Lyon since 2002.

Cederberg is third in the league in both points per game and assists per game. He had at least one goal and assist in each of the nine games immediately prior to the Pilgrim League Tournament title game, during which Cederberg tallied a pair of markers. In league action, he averaged 2.0 goals and 2.0 assists while scoring on 56.0 percent of his shots, adding three man-up markers and assisting five more.

Powers, who drew his first league honor, is second on the team in ground balls (46) as the Lyons' primary long-stick midfielder while playing a vital role in the nation's fifth-ranked man-down defense. He notched at least three ground balls in 10 games and helped the Lyons hold league foes to fewer than 10 goals five times in nine games. He picking up an average of 4.3 ground balls in Pilgrim play and contributed to a defense that yielded 18.9 shots on goal per contest in conference action while allowing 8.6 goals.

Under first-year head coach Brian Endicott, Wheaton completed its Pilgrim campaign at 6-1 before drawing the second seed in the tournament and advancing to the title game, where it lost 12-7 at eight-time champ Springfield College, the top seed. The Lyons, now 7-7, have earned the second seed in this week's Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Tournament and will host number-seven Becker College in a Wednesday first-round game at 4:30 p.m.