WESTERVILLE, Ohio – Three Baldwin Wallace University men's soccer players have been named to the All-Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament team, a series of matchups that saw BW advance all the way to the championship game before falling to Ohio Northern. These include senior
Braden Lamb and freshmen
Davis Van Every and
Royce Hawkins.
Hawkins played in every single game and every minute. He was an effective defender throughout the tournament, as the team reached the title game.
Lamb played in all three games, starting each one. He took seven shots all tournament, with one of them coming on goal. He scored on one of the five shootout shots that BW took against Marietta and on the go-ahead goal against Mount Union in the semifinals, carrying the Brown and Gold into the OAC Tournament title game. He is the only non-freshman on the roster to be selected to this team.
Van Every rounds out all the selectees for BW. In three games, he was a tremendous boost off the bench for the Brown and Gold. For the tournament, he scored the game-tying goal against Marietta and took seven shots, two of which were on goal. He additionally scored the second-to-last goal in the shootout quarterfinal victory over the Purple Raiders.
The Yellow Jackets finished with an 11-6-5 mark in 2026 and a 3-3-2 total in the OAC. They beat Marietta and Mount Union in the OAC Tournament before losing to Ohio Northern on the road in the finals.