Mansfield's Richards Repeats As All-League Choice For Eastern Soccer

WILLIMANTIC, CT — Senior defender Larson Richards of Mansfield has been picked as a first-team All-Little East Conference repeater in men's soccer.

Twelve players were named to the first team and 14 to the second. Players are nominated by their coaches and voted upon by all nine conference head coaches.

A transfer from the Division I level, Richards was the only one of the team's four All-LEC picks to repeat.

Richards started all 41 matches in which he appeared in his two-year Eastern career (excluding two official games during the Covid-related 2020 season), missing only one. He was the only player this year to start all 20 matches for the Warriors (12-6-2 overall), who shared second place in the final LEC regular-season standings with a 6-2-0 record and reached the playoff semifinals as the No. 3 seed. His penalty-kick goal early in the 1-0 LEC first-round win over Keene State College vaulted the team into the semifinals.

Richards played a team-high 1,665 minutes (83.3 mpg.), playing all 90 minutes in 12 of 18 regular-season games and all 200 minutes in the two LEC playoff contests. He contributed four goals and three assists this year and nine goals and 11 assists in his career.