Bone Earns Second Weekly Honor
10/23/2017 12:00:00 AM | Men's Soccer
DENVER - Air Force's Tucker Bone and San José State's David Heredia have been named Western Athletic Conference Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week, respectively, for Oct. 16 - 22.
Bone, a junior midfielder from Granite Bay, Calif. (Jesuit HS), totaled seven points on the week as the 16th-ranked Falcons closed out their home schedule with wins over UNLV and Grand Canyon. Against UNLV, he assisted on the first goal in the 19th minute and then scored an insurance goal right after halftime as Air Force earned the 3-0 win in a rematch of last year's tournament championship match. On Sunday against Grand Canyon, he scored the equalizing goal in the 34th minute before assisting on the Falcons' next two goals in a 3-1 win over the visiting Lopes.
Heredia, a junior goalkeeper from San Jose, Calif. (Andrew Hill HS/UC Riverside), collected a pair of shutouts on the road to help vault the Spartans into the tournament picture with wins at UIW and UT Rio Grande Valley. In a 2-0 win at UIW on Friday, he made a pair of saves off 12 total Cardinal shots to earn the clean sheet. He followed that up with three saves on 10 total shots in a 1-0 win at UT Rio Grande Valley. He is the first Spartan keeper since 2014 to get credited with three shutouts in a season and was an important cog in the Spartans boasting three straight road wins for the first time since 2011.
Other offensive nominees: Grand Canyon's Musa Morris Demos scored in a 2-1 loss at Kansas City on Friday … UIW's Fernando Laverde scored the game-winning goal in the 108th minute to earn a 1-0 win over CSU Bakersfield on Sunday afternoon … Kansas City's Eric McWoods netted his ninth goal of the season in a 2-1 win against Grand Canyon on Friday … Utah Valley's Austin Buxton scored on a header for the insurance goal in a 2-0 win over Houston Baptist.
Other defensive nominees: Air Force's Oscar Chacon shut down two of the top offensive players in the WAC as the Falcons earned home wins over UNLV and Grand Canyon … Grand Canyon's Amer Sasivarevic played all 180 minutes in a pair of road losses … Kansas City's Filippo Errico totaled 11 saves as the Roos split matches at home against Grand Canyon and UNLV … UT Rio Grande Valley's Michael Faber anchored a defense that allowed just one goal on the week as the Vaqueros went 0-1-1 … Utah Valley's Giovanny Vazquez led the defense to a shutout over visiting Houston Baptist.
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