Carberry Named All Met Co-Player of the Year
NEW YORK (April 11, 2013) – Tobin Carberry of LIU Post and Leon Porter of Dominican have been named All Met Division II men's college basketball Co-Players of the Year by the Met Basketball Writers Association.
Joe Clinton of Dominican was named Coach of the Year for a second time.
The rest of the All Met First Team: Antoine Obery, Felician; John Petrucelli, Molloy; Argelix Gil, Concordia; Cory Quimby, Dominican.
The Second Team:
Vaughn Allen, LIU Post; Marvin Williams, Bloomfield; Justin Brown, St. Thomas Aquinas; Joseph Pope, Mercy; Patrick Parker, Queens; Norman Pope, Concordia.
The All Met teams will be honored April 15 at the 80th NIT/MBWA Haggerty Awards dinner at the Westchester Marriott, Tarrytown, NY.
A 6-foot-2 senior guard from Hamden, CT, Carberry led the East Coast Conference with 18.6 points per game, along with total points, field goals and 3-point goals. He also had 5.8 rebounds. Carberry put up double digits in every game he played this season, along with 20-plus points 14 times. He shot 45.7% from the field, including 39.9% beyond the arc. He ranks in the top 10 on the Pioneers' all time scoring list (1,244 points), shooting 45.9% for his career. Carberry was named ECC Player of the Year.
FIRST TEAM
Tobin Carberry, LIU Post 6-2, sr, G (Hamden, CT)
Leon Porter, Dominican 5-5, sr, G (Laurel, MD)
Cory Quimby, Dominican 6-6, sr, F (Otisville, NY)
Antoine Obery, Felician 6-4, sr, F/G (Roselle, NJ)
John Petrucelli, Molloy 6-4, jr, F (Hicksville, NY)
Argelix Gil, Concordia 6-5, sr, F (Brooklyn, NY)
SECOND TEAM
Vaughn Allen, LIU Post 6-5, jr, F (Mount Vernon, NY)
Marvin Williams, Bloomfield 6-0, so, G (Jersey City, NJ)
Justin Brown, STAC 6-5, sr, G (Uniondale, NY)
Joseph Pope, Mercy 6-4, sr, F/G (Akron, OH)
Patrick Parker, Queens 6-1, jr, G (Queens, NY)
Norman Pope, Concordia 5-11, jr, G (Washington, DC)
Co-Player of the Year:
Tobin Carberry, LIU Post
Co-Player of the Year: Leon Porter, Dominican
Coach of the Year: Joe Clinton, Dominican