Men's Lacrosse | 3/2/2026 4:00:00 PM
Week 3 PAC Honors (for events between February 23-March 1)
The weekly award winners have been recognized for their performances during Week 3 of the 2026 season.
PAC Offensive Player of the Week
JP Rakis • Allegheny • Senior attack • Kensingston, Md./Walter Johnson
Rakis scored seven goals and had 15 assists for a team-high 22 points, leading the Gators to a 2-0 week with wins over Pitt-Bradford (13-3) and at Lycoming (20-4) ... Rakis logged a hat trick with five assists for a game-high eight points against UPB ... He finished one point shy of his own team record with 14 after scoring four goals with 10 assists against Lycoming ... Rakis became the first player in program history to reach 200 points and 100 assists following the game against Pitt-Bradford, and became the second Gator to reach 100 career goals against Lycoming.
PAC Offensive Honor Roll
Bethany senior attack Justice Smith (Canonsburg, Pa./Canon-McMillan); Chatham senior attack Thomas Whitaker (Wilmington, Del./Delaware Military Academy); Franciscan junior attack Joseph James (Herndon, Va./The Heights School); Grove City sophomore midfielder Ethan Binns (Saint Johns, Fla./The Bolles School); Thiel junior midfielder Joey King (Cooperstown, Pa./Maplewood); W&J senior midfielder/faceoff specialist Braden Petrarco (Irwin, Pa./Norwin)
PAC Defensive Player of the Week
James Cipollone • Chatham • Senior goalie • Forrest Hill, Md./Calvert Hall College
Cipollone recorded 24 saves and a .571 save rate in a pair of Cougars' victories ... His week began with an 11-save performance against his former team, as the Cougars beat Marietta 14-2 ... In that game, he recorded an .846 save rate on 13 shots faced ... In Chatham's 17-16 win against Virginia Wesleyan, Cipollone made four of his 13 saves, and forced a turnover, in the fourth quarter, helping the Cougars beat the previously undefeated Marlins ... Cipollone held both opponents to their lowest goal total of the season.
PAC Defensive Honor Roll
Allegheny senior goalie Garin Stearns (Hudson, Ohio/Revere); Grove City senior goalie Tyler Gladstone (Marriottsville, Md./Marriotts Ridge); Saint Vincent senior goalie Garrett Ritts (Shaker Heights, Ohio/Shaker Heights); Thiel freshman defender Dom Baker (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Mechanicsburg); W&J junior goalie Stephen Moschetta (Washington, Pa./Trinity)
PAC Specialist of the Week
Austin Parker • Thiel • Senior faceoff specialist/midfielder • Titusville, Pa./Maplewood
Parker won 39 faceoffs and grabbed 29 ground balls as Thiel went 1-1 last week in a pair of non-PAC games ... Parker won 23-of-24 faceoffs, with his 23 wins being tied for fifth-most in team history, in Thiel's 20-2 win over La Roche Tuesday ... He grabbed a game-most 19 ground balls, the fourth-most in Thiel history, while scoring once and dishing out three helpers in the win over the Redhawks ... His first assist came 9 seconds into the game on a goal, tying the team record for fastest goal to open a game ... Against Keuka Thursday, Parker won 16-of-25 faceoffs and collected a game-most 10 ground balls.
PAC Specialist Honor Roll
Allegheny freshman faceoff specialist/midfielder Gabe Shoemaker (Brunswick, Maine/Brunswick); Chatham junior defender Jesse Corser-James (Fort Collins, Colo./The Hill School); Saint Vincent sophomore midfielder Mason Krabbe (Mechanicsville, Md./Chopticon); Westminster sophomore long-stick midfielder Jack Poller (Huntington, N.Y./Harborfields)
PAC Newcomer of the Week
Jack Pearl • Allegheny • Freshman attack • Ladera Ranch, Calif./JSerra Catholic
Pearl led all Gators in goals scored in Allegheny's 2-0 week … He scored twice and picked up four ground balls in a 13-3 win over Pitt-Bradford … Pearl became the third player in program history to score seven goals in a game, tying an Allegheny record in a 20-4 win at Lycoming … He had a natural hat trick in the first quarter to double the lead from 3-0 to 6-0 ... Seven of his 10 shots against the Warriors found the back of the net and nine were on goal.
PAC Newcomer Honor Roll
Franciscan freshman goalie John Kirk (Rockville, Md./The Heights School); Thiel freshman midfielder Kasey Estep (Brunswick, Ohio/Holy Name); Westminster freshman midfielder Adam Teixera (Sparta, N.J./Sparta)
PAC Records & Milestones
Allegheny's Garin Stearns guided the Gators to an undefeated week on the defensive end of the field with a 2-0 record, 3.43 goals-against average, .750 save percentage, and 18 saves in 105 minutes in goal ... Bethany's Justice Smith had three goals against Hanover, his fourth career hat trick ... After scoring six times in Chatham's win over Marietta, Thomas Whitaker set a new program-record with eight goals and one assist in a 17-16 victory over Virginia Wesleyan. In that same win, Jesse Corser-James caused six turnovers and picked up seven ground balls ... Franciscan's Joseph James scored six goals against Muskingum Wednesday and set the program record for career goals ... Grove City's Tyler Gladstone made a career-high 21 saves in a 10-7 setback at No. 3 Christopher Newport ... Joey King netted a career-best six goals on seven shots on goal and Dom Baker posted 17 ground balls and six caused turnovers (both tied for fifth-most in team history) in Thiel's 20-2 win over La Roche.