The Colorado Mesa Mavericks will begin the 2019 RMAC Tournament this Friday in Salt Lake City. The Mavs are seeking their fourth consecutive RMAC Tournament Championship as they have been crowned champions the past three years. For the first time they will travel to another school for the tournament. This year Westminster claimed the regular season championship and held rights to hosting the tournament.

The Tournament is made up of four teams and will be over the course of two days. Semifinal games will take place Friday at 2 pm and 5 pm. The Mavericks and CSU-Pueblo will face off in the first semifinal game and the Westminster Griffins and Adams State will faceoff in the second semifinal game. The winner of each game will advance to the Championship match on Saturday at 2pm. All games will be played on Dumke Field.

All about the Mavs

Jack Griffin currently leads the Mavericks with 65 points which is tied for the second most points for a single season in school history. Griffin is currently tied with former Maverick Reece Callies who recorded 65 points during the 2018 season.  Griffin's 44 goal this season is a season best for the Parker, Colo. native and is the third most goals in program history for a single season.

In his career Griffin currently sits with 176 points which is second in school history behind Steve Brandenburg who finished his career with 181 points.

Michael Marino is one ground ball away from tying his own single season school record. Last season he recorded 127 and he currently sits at 126 entering the RMAC Tournament. As the Mavs number one faceoff guy he has a 62.3 faceoff percentage (228-of-366).

Chase Overton has recorded the next most ground balls at 37 and caused the third most turnovers on the team at 16. Ryder Clark has caused the most turnovers this season at 19.

There are seven different Mavericks who have recorded ten or more caused turnovers this year and seven different Mavs who have picked up 20 or more ground balls this year.

All-RMAC Honors

Announced yesterday by conference officials senior Jack Griffin was named the 2019 RMAC Midfielder of the Year for the third consecutive time in his career and Freshman Chase Overton earned the RMAC Co-Freshman of the Year.

Overton is the first freshman in program history to earn RMAC Freshman of the Year. Among RMAC players he ranks ninth in the conference averaging 1.07 caused turnovers a game and tenth in ground balls averaging 2.47 a game.

Griffin is the only player in program history to earn a player of the year award three consecutive times. Multiple players have earned back-to-back awards but no one other than Griffin has earned it three different or consecutive years.

Griffin is also the only player in RMAC men's lacrosse history to earn a player of the year award three times.

Scouting CSU- Pueblo

This will be the third meeting this season between Colorado Mesa and CSUP. The Mavericks most recently defeated the ThunderWolves 20-10 in their regular season finale. Earlier that year the Mavericks defeated them 21-7 on April 12.

CSUP is 7-7 overall and finished with a 2-4 conference record. Their two conference wins came from defeating Adams State.

CSU-Pueblo's coach Sean Blair picked up Co-Coach of the Year this season while four of their student-athletes were named to the All-RMAC First Team roster.

As a member of the first team Taylor Davis leads the ThunderWovles in goals with 38 on the year. Also on the First-Team was Anthony Ferrie who leads the team in points with 31 goals and 27 assists.

In the net Ethan Ferrie has logged the most minutes and has a 12.70 goals against average and a 52.1 saves percentage.

Up Next

With a win the Mavericks will advance to the championship game of the RMAC Tournament and face the winner of top seeded Westminster and fourth-seeded Adams State.