NORTON, MA- Three Wheaton College men's lacrosse players qualified for Pilgrim League Academic All-Conference laurels, with juniors Tim Horan (Cheshire, CT/Cheshire) and Drew Schaffer (New Haven, CT/Loomis Chaffee School) and sophomore Peter Buongiorno (Pittsburgh, PA/Winchester Thurston School) each earning their second honor.

Honorees must follow a certain criteria to qualify, including having a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.25 or better upon completion of the 2008 fall semester and participating on the varsity team for the entire season.

While appearing in every game for the Lyons, Horan tallied six goals and four assists out of the midfield. During the Pilgrim League Tournament semifinals against Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Horan recorded one goal, two assists and three ground balls. Nearing the end of his third year at Wheaton, he has 26 career goals and 30 assists. Horan also drew academic all-league honors last season as a sophomore.

Schaffer is second on the team in assists (15), and he has provided three goals and nine helpers during man-up situations for the nation's eighth-best man-up offense. The midfielder has seen time in every game while tallying at least one point in a dozen contests, including multiple points in 10 games. A previous academic all-conference qualifier during his freshman season, Schaffer is eighth in program history in career assists (44).

A midfielder, Buongiorno has seen action in three contests, each of which was a Pilgrim game. One of 18 underclassmen on a young team, he fired off one shot in each contest he played. Buongiorno also qualified for an academic all-conference laurel as a freshman.

Wheaton went 6-1 in league play this spring, taking second in the regular season standings before downing MIT, 14-7 in the tournament semifinals but coming up short at Springfield College, 12-7 in the title game. Now 7-7 overall, the Lyons have drawn the second seed in this week's Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Tournament and host number-seven Becker College on Wednesday in a first-round match-up at 4:30 p.m.