Towson junior goalkeeper Travis Love and freshman face-off specialist Matt Thomas were honored by the Colonial Athletic Association Monday, earning the league's co-Player of the Week and Rookie of the Week awards.
Love, a Westminster native and Winters Mill graduate, made 11 saves in the Tigers' 10-7 victory over UMBC on Wednesday. He followed up that performance with 10 stops in a 10-9 upset of No. 8 Massachusetts on Saturday. Love currently ranks eighth in Division I with a .583 save percentage and tied for 19th with a 9.06 goals-against average.
Thomas won 60 percent of his face-offs last week, going 9-of-14 against the Retrievers on Wednesday and 9-of-16 against the Minutemen on Saturday. For the season, Thomas has posted a 50.7 success rate (76 of 150) on face-offs, and he leads the team in groundballs with 40.