Bridgeport, Pa. – (September 18, 2024) – The Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference (MAWPC) released its weekly awards on Wednesday with Fordham seniors
Luca Silvestri (Napoli, Italy) and
Thomas Lercari (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.) earning the league's Player and Defensive Player of the Week honors, respectively. It is Silvestri's third career Player of the Week award, and Lercari's ninth career Defensive Player of the Week award and second of the season.
Silvestri led the Rams to a pair of ranked victories over UC San Diego and Harvard this past weekend, totaling six goals, five assists, three steals, and two blocks. He scored a hat trick against UC San Diego to go with three assists and two steals, while netting his second hat trick of the weekend versus Harvard to go with two assists, a steal, and two blocks.
Lercari totaled 17 saves, three assists, and two steals in Fordham's 2-0 weekend against UC San Diego and Harvard. He recorded 11 saves in a 13-5 win over UC San Diego on Saturday to go with an assist and a steal, while having six saves, two assists, and a steal in a win over Harvard on Sunday.
Fordham is ranked #10 in the latest CWPA/NCAA poll after improving to 5-0 on the season, the first time the Rams have done that since 1973.
Silvestri, Lercari and the rest of the Rams are back in the pool this weekend at the Bison Invitational with four matches on tap. Three of the four matches will be MAWPC league matches against Mt. St. Mary's (Sept. 21), Bucknell (Sept. 21), and Johns Hopkins (Sept. 22), while the final game will be a non-league match versus Salem (Sept. 22).
