2019: USILA Third Team All-American ... Second Team All-Capital Athletic Conference selection ... CoSIDA Academic All-District selection ... USILA Scholar All-American ... named the CAC Defensive Player of the Week and named to the USILA Division III Team of the Week (3/25) as he won 18 of 21 face-offs in an 11-7 upset victory over #5 Cabrini (3/22) ... finished his career ranking first in program history in face-off win percentage (.598) and second in ground balls (394) ... his career-best 143 ground balls and career-high .616 face-off win percentage (252-409) both rank as the fourth-best single season marks in program history ... won a season-high 18 face-offs in a victory over #5 Cabrini (3/22) ... collected a career-high 13 ground balls in a victory over #16 Lynchburg ... won 15 or more face-offs in seven games on the season ... recorded double-digit ground balls in six different games.
2018: Started in 20 games for the Spartans, dominating in face offs again for the Green and White ... was an honorable mention All-American and first team All-CAC performer as a junior ... finished 224-369, good for a .607 percentage and was .688 in CAC play at the X ... finished 19th in the country in total face off wins ... recorded 106 grond balls for most on the team ... also added a goal and an assist on the year ... recorded that assist, the first of his career, against Southern Virginia when he also scored his only goal of the year ... had double digit ground balls in four matches including a career-high 12 against Frosburg State in the CAC tournament ... some of his best games at the X included 17-for-21 against Eastern , 16-for-19 against Southern Virginia, and 15-for-18 against Marymount (Va.).
2017: Started all 21 games for the Spartans, dominating the face off X ... finished 217-for-369 at the X, good for a .588 face off percentage ... only 26 players in the nation finished the season with more face offs won ... recorded 106 ground balls, more than 40 more than the second-most on the team ... also scored three goals on the season ... his goals came against Elizabethtown, Haverford and St. Mary's (Md.) primarily right off the face off ... set a career-high 11 ground balls in the season opener, a 12-11 win over #20 Washington & Lee ... later in the season, matched that total with 11 ground balls against Mary Washington ... had at least seven ground balls in six fo the first 11 games ... put together some remarkable games at the X, including going 19-for-24 against Gettysburg, 11-for-12 against Haverford and 13-for-17 in the NCAA Tournament second round against Morrisville St.
2016: Played 15 games off the bench for the Spartans as a freshman ... had 40 ground balls and went 65-for-120 at the face off X ... set a season-high with eight ground balls in the April 23 win over Chistopher Newport ... won ten face offs in a game twice, the first time on March 30 against St. Mary's and again in the April 6 win over Wesley ... had at least one ground ball in 11 of his 15 games ... won more than half his face offs in 10 of his 13 games in which he took a chance at the X.
Personal: Is a mechanical engineering major ... is the son of Chip and Brenda Sasso ... born on October 24, 1996 ... played for Mike Ferrando at Freehold Township High School ... played club lacrosse for Team Turnpike.
