On the cusp of joining Phil Anthony (1999-2002) as the only players in Goucher’s history to accrue 200 points in a career, Kyle Boncaro said he knew, but didn’t know.
Allow the senior attackman to explain.
“I had a sense of it probably toward the end of last year,” he said Wednesday. “But this season, I was more focused on team play rather than individual records.”
After racking up 10 points on seven goals and three assists in the Gophers’ 27-7 shellacking of Southwestern on Saturday, Boncaro needed three more points to reach 200, and he did that on his second goal of a 30-2 thrashing of Dallas on Sunday.
Asked if he knew that he had joined an elite club with that goal, Boncaro replied, “Actually, it never crept up on me during the game. It was mentioned to me after by a parent.”
With 205 points, Boncaro – who finished with 65 points last season – should pass Anthony’s program-leading 225 points sometime this spring. But Boncaro said he is solely concerning himself with helping Goucher win the Landmark Conference Tournament and earning the automatic qualifier to the NCAA Tournament.
“I feel a great deal of hope on our shoulders as seniors and as leaders,” he said. “We’ve been a cornerstone of this program for four years now, and I think there’s a feeling that a championship is inside of us even though we’re only two games into the season.”
In other Division III news, senior attackman Colin McKew became the all-time leader at Franklin & Marshall in minutes played. The Glen Arm native and Loyola graduate surpassed the previous record of 2,470 minutes in the first quarter of the Diplomats’ 23-1 rout of Immaculata Wednesday.