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Sam DeCencio (C)
2017-2018
Player #21
position: MIDFIELDER
Grade Year: 2018
Year in School: Senior
Height: 6 1
Weight: 165lb
Biography:
2017: Named Team Captain for 2nd year running as a Senior ... Named Courier-Post and NJ.com Preseason Player to Watch ... Profiled by the Philadelphia Inquirer as one of the Top Playmakers in South Jersey as a senior ... Earned his 2nd career First-Team All-Colonial Conference Honor as a senior ... Top vote-winning midfielder in All-Colonial Conference Liberty Division ... Named All-South Jersey by SJSCA ... All-State by SCANJ ... First Team All-South Jersey from the Courier-Post ... Bradford G. Wiliby Memorial Most Valuable Player as a Senior for the 2nd year in a row ... Led Varsity and set the All-Time Single-Season Assists Record at HMHS with 25 (previous record of 24 was set by Eric Mangold in 1979) ... 25 assists was good for tops amongst all players in South Jersey ... Tallied personal career-best 10 Goals on the season ... Registered 3 multi-goal games during his senior season ... 2nd on the Varsity team with 35 points (good for 3rd on the all-time list for Single-Season Points) ... 89 Career Points ranks second all-time to teammate Jack Dugan (126) ... Won 3 straight Colonial Conference Liberty Division Championships during a stellar Varsity career (2015, 2016, & 2017) ... Fourth on the team as a senior with 2 game-winning goals ... Namesake for the "Dugan & DeCencio Dedicated Player Award" to be bestowed annually beginning in 2018 ... Will continue his playing career at La Salle University next Fall for the Explorers
2016: Committed to La Salle University following the fall season ... Team Captain ... Bradford G. Wilby Memorial MVP Award Recipient ... Led Varsity with 19 assists ... 2nd best on the Varsity with 26 points ... Voted First Team All-Colonial Conference for the first time as a junior ... Top vote-winner amongst midfielders in all-conference voting ... First All-South Jersey nod as a junior (SJSCA) ... First All-State recognition (SCANJ) ... Courier-Post Preseason Player to Watch List ... 2nd Team All-South Jersey Honors from the Courier-Post ... Tallied 3 assists against Audubon in the season opener (9/8) ... Scored a goal against Haddon Heights (9/22) ... Registered a goal and two assists against Gateway (10/6) ... Took less than 90 seconds to set up the game tying goal and score the game winning goal against West Deptford (10/18) ... Scored a goal and tallied an assist against Collingswood (10/20) ... Tallied the final two of his team high 19 assists against Lower Cape May in the first round of the Group Two playoffs (10/31)
2015: One of the leading scorers on Varsity with eight goals and eight assists ... Courier-Post Player to Watch List ... Named HMHS Boys Soccer Young Player of the Year for second year running ... Won a U16 National Championship for club team MatchFit Academy during summer 2016
2014: Varsity starter as a freshman along with classmate Jack Dugan ... Won HMHS Boys Soccer Young Player of the Year Honors (first Honoree in Award's history)