MISL Holds 2004 Amateur Draft
February 27, 2004 - Major Indoor Soccer League 2 (MISL 2) News Release
(Westport, Conn., February 27, 2004) â The St. Louis Steamers made Cal Thomas, a forward from SIU-Edwardsville, the first overall selection in the Territorial Round of the 2004 MISL Amateur Draft, held on Friday at the Renaissance Airport Hotel in St. Charles, MO.
Thomas, a native of Rochester, IL, was a 2003 First Team All-American, and First Team All-Region and All-Great Lakes Valley Conference selection. He scored 13 goals and 32 points in 2003 for SIU-Edwardsville, also the alma mater of Steamers player/coach Daryl Doran.
The Dallas Sidekicks chose midfielder Trey Vaut of Oral Roberts University with the second Territorial pick (third overall). Vaut, a Dallas native, was named to the All-Mid Continent First Team for the third straight time in 2003, and earned Mid-Con Offensive Player of the Year honors.
San Diego used the fourth Territorial pick on midfielder Scott Burcar (Seattle-Washington), and Kansas City (Drew Perkins, M, UKMC) and Baltimore (Marco Angelini, F, UMBC) selected local products with the fifth and sixth selections.
Philadelphia and Milwaukee completed the Territorial phase of the draft with the selection of two Honorable Mention All-Americans, as the KiXX selected forward Damien Pottinger of Duquesne University and the Wave tabbed Tighe Dombrowski, a midfielder from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Pottinger was also the first overall selection by the Edmonton Drillers in the recent A-League draft.
The University of Missouri â Kansas City led all schools with three selections in the draft, all by the Kansas City Comets. The Comets also picked two players from the University of Alabama-Birmingham. The University of North Carolina-Greensboro and Long Island University both had two players picked.
The Fourth and final round of the draft featured the selection of forward Joseph Ngwenya by the San Diego Sockers. Ngwenya, from Coastal Carolina University, led all NCAA Division IA scorers with 21 goals and 56 points in 2003. Rinaldo Chambers of Saint Peter's College, selected by Philadelphia in the Fourth Round, ranked ninth in the nation in scoring a year ago.
Of the 40 players selected in the five-round draft (territorial round, four numerical rounds), 31 were either midfielders or forwards. Six defenders and three goalkeepers were also selected.
Five selections, including Ngwenya, Jeremiah White (Philadelphia's first-round pick out of Wake Forest), Attila Vendegh (Second Round, San Diego, Old Dominion), David Wagenfuhr (Second Round, Milwaukee, Creighton University), and Adrian Cann (Fourth Round, Milwaukee, University of Louisville), were All-Americans in 2003.
Cleveland, Kansas City, Milwaukee, and San Diego led all teams with six selections apiece. The Monterrey Fury will finalize their draft picks at a later date.
2004 MISL Amateur Draft:
TERRITORIAL
Selection # Team Player Selected School
1 ST. LOUIS Cal Thomas, F SIU-Edwardsville
2 MONTERREY PASS
3 DALLAS Trey Vaut, M/F Oral Roberts University
4 SAN DIEGO Scott Burcar, M Seattle-Washington
5 KANSAS CITY Drew Perkins, M Univ of Missouri â Kansas City
6 BALTIMORE Marco Angelini, F Univ. of Maryland â Balt. County
7 CLEVELAND Kirk Harwat, M/F University of Akron
8 PHILADELPHIA Damien Pottinger, F Duquesne University
9 MILWAUKEE Tighe Dombrowski, M Univ. of Wisconsin.- Milwaukee
ROUND 1
Selection # Team Player Selected School
10 ST. LOUIS Jamal Sutton, F Southwest Missouri State Univ.
11 MONTERREY PASS
12 KANSAS CITY (from Dallas) Geoff Miles, M/D UMKC
13 MILWAUKEE (from San Diego) Dominik Jakubek, GK Cal State â Chico
14 CLEVELAND (from Kansas City) Tim O'Neil, D St. John's University
15 SAN DIEGO (from Baltimore) Kevin Hudson, M University of St. Louis â Missouri
16 CLEVELAND Ian Pularski, M Cornell
17 PHILADELPHIA Jeremiah White, F Wake Forest
18 SAN DIEGO (from Milwaukee) Alan Gordon, F Oregon State
ROUND 2
Selection # Team Player Selected School
19 KANSAS CITY (from St. Louis) Marin Pusek, F Univ. of Alabama â Birmingham
20 MONTERREY PASS
21 DALLAS Joe Crump, GK Univ. of NC-Greensboro
22 SAN DIEGO Adom Crew, M Brown University
23 KANSAS CITY Jason Woods, D UMKC
24 SAN DIEGO (from Baltimore) Attilla Vendegh, F Old Dominion
25 CLEVELAND Said Ali, F Robert Morris University
26 PHILADELPHIA Jamie Mullarkey, F Lafayette
27 MILWAUKEE David Wagenfuhr, M/F Creighton University
ROUND 3
Selection # Team Player Selected School
28 MILWAUKEE (from St. Louis) Nino Marcantonio, M University of Maryland
29 MONTERREY PASS
30 DALLAS Doug Pruett, D UNC-Greensboro
31 SAN DIEGO Tom McMenemy, F Columbia University
32 KANSAS CITY Justin Walker, M/F UMKC
33 BALTIMORE David Schofield, F Long Island University
34 CLEVELAND Oskar Tilly, F Long Island University
35 PHILADELPHIA Kamar Samuels, D East Stroudsburg University
36 MILWAUKEE Branko Savic, M Lindenwood University
ROUND 4
Selection # Team Player Selected School
37 BALTIMORE (from St. Louis) Jeff Parke, D Drexel
38 MONTERREY PASS
39 DALLAS Scott Duhl, F Western Michigan University
40 SAN DIEGO Joseph Ngwenya, F Coastal Carolina University
41 KANSAS CITY Clint Baumstark, GK Univ. of Alabama - Birmingham
42 BALTIMORE Graham Albert, M William & Mary
43 CLEVELAND Neil Krause, F Boston College
44 PHILADELPHIA Rinaldo Chambers, F St. Peter's
45 MILWAUKEE Adrian Cann, D University of Louisville
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