Deren Wins Second A-10 Honor

Oct. 21, 2002

AMHERST, Mass. - Jeff Deren (Chicopee, Mass.) was named Atlantic 10 Conference men's soccer Player of the Week announced by the A-10 office on Monday. It was the second time that Deren has won the award this year and fourth time in his career.

Deren scored nine points (3 g, 3 a) over the weekend, while leading UMass to a 1-0-1 mark. In Sunday's 7-1 win over St. Bonaventure, Deren scored two goals and two assists to become the school's all-time leading scorer with 98 points and UMass' all-time leading goal scorer with 41. Deren has scored in eight straight games, accumulating 29 points (12 g, 5 a) during that span. He leads the Minutemen with 36 points (15 g, 6 a), and ranks at or near the top of several Atlantic 10 and NCAA categories. His 15 goals this year ranks fourth all-time on the single-season list and his 16 career assists places him eighth on that career chart. Lastly, his 36 points this year rank Deren fifth on the school's single-season scoring chart.

UMass continues its quest to an Atlantic 10 Conference title on Friday, Oct. 25, with a 2:30 p.m. game at Temple. The Minutemen are 9-4-1 overall and 5-0-1 in the Atlantic 10 Conference. They are one-half game behind undefeated Rhode Island in the conference standings and are unbeaten (7-0-1) in the last eight games.

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