Tarrytown, NY -- It was a good night for NEC hoopers at the annual Haggerty Awards dinner on Tuesday in Tarrytown, NY.

The annual event, sponsored by the Metropolitan Basketball Writers' Association (MBWA), honors the best-of-the-best from the NY metro area in all three divisions.

Fairleigh Dickinson sharpshooter Darnell Edge (Saugerties, NY/Saugerties) was tabbed to the MBWA first team after leading the Knights to the NEC title last March. LIU Brooklyn's Raiquan Clark (New Haven, CT/Hillhouse) and St. Francis Brooklyn's Amy O'Neill (Melbourne, Australia/Catholic Ladies' College) collected second team honors. Sacred Heart's Katherine Haines (Ridgefield Park, NJ/Ridgefield Park) and Sean Hoehn (Morristown, NJ/Morristown (St. Thomas More)) were both named to the third team.

Edge garnered the first team nod after leading the Knights on a historic run which included an NEC Regular Season Championship, NEC Championship and NCAA Tournament appearance. The senior guard, who will be recognized at the 86^thannual MBWA Awards Dinner on Tuesday, April 30, propelled the Knights to the program's first-ever NCAA Tournament victory by scoring a career-high 33 points in the team's win over Prairie View A&M.

The senior guard becomes the the Knights' first All-Met First Team honoree since Rahshon Turner was named to the team in 1998. He is also the third Knight to garner All-Met honors in Greg Herenda's tenure.

"Darnell has done something that no FDU player has done in decades and he is extremely deserving of this prestigious award," said Herenda. "Darnell came to Fairleigh Dickinson as a bright-eyed 17-year old and leaves as a two-time NEC Champion, who helped lead us to our historic NCAA Tournament victory. There is no player that I have coached in my 35 years that has worked harder to realize all of his goals. We are all so very proud of Darnell and all of his accomplishments."

The Saugerties, New York native, who was named All-NEC First Team along with NEC Tournament MVP and NABC All-District First Team, averaged 16.6 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.4 assists, while shooting 47.3 percent from the field, 47.7 percent from three-point range and 89.4 percent from the line. Edge finished the season ranked third in the nation in three-point percentage and ninth in free throw percentage.

Edge concludes his illustrious FDU career as a two-time NEC Champion, the program's all-time leader in 3-pointers (201) and ranks 11^th in scoring (1,431 points), 10^th in field goals made (485), eighth in steals (123).The selection of Haines marks the first time that a Pioneer has received All-Met honors since Hannah Kimmel in 2015-16.

Clark was named first team All-Northeast Conference this season, as well as to the NABC All-District First Team.

Clark earned his first All-Met career honors, after leading the NEC in scoring all season long. Clark averaged 18.9 points per game this season, leading all scorers in the conference all season. He also averaged 6.8 rebounds per game, ranking sixth in the NEC, and ranked in the top 12 in field goal percentage (.503 - 10th), steals (1.25 per game - 11th), offensive rebounds (1.94 per game - 9th), defensive rebounds (4.81 per game - 6th) and minutes played (32.34 - 10th). He finished the regular season with six double doubles, and had 14 games this season where he scored 20 points or more. Earlier this year, he became the 36th player in LIU Brooklyn basketball history to eclipse the 1,000-point mark. Since then, he's tallied 1,406 career points, ranking him 18th on the all time scoring list.

O'Neil's honor was the first awarded to a Terrier in school history.
 
The Melbourne, Australia native was selected to her first all-conference team as she set the program record in assists throughout a single season with 268. O'Neill became the first person in St. Francis Brooklyn women's basketball program history to register not one, but a pair of triple-doubles throughout the regular season. She accomplished those feats against Sacred Heart (2/2) and on her home floor against LIU Brooklyn just two weeks later (2/16).
 
During the 2018-19 season, O'Neill has averaged 10.1 points-per-game, A field-goal percentage of 46.9. She also averaged 8.6 assists-per-game, and led the team in rebounding per game by averaging 6.9 this season. In addition, O'Neill finished 7th all time on the all-time assists listing with 409 in two seasons. Amy also holds the program record for most assists during a single season with 268. She also broke the conference record in assists made during a single season, which was 229, previously held by Ericka Norman (2013-14).

Haines was selected to the Northeast Conference First Team as she was the go-to scorer on this year's Pioneer team that won 19 games and went 14-4 in the NEC regular season to earn the No. 2 seed in the NEC Tournament. She averaged 18.3 points per game in NEC play which ranked third in the league while adding 9.3 rebounds (3^rd NEC) and 1.9 BPG (2^nd NEC) in 32.9 minutes per game. Her efficiency from the floor is well-noted as the forward shot 50.6 percent overall (9^th NEC), 76.9 percent from the free throw line (T-9^th NEC) and an impressive 41.7 percent from three (3^rd NEC) which ranked first among forwards.

She made history this season, recording the program's first-ever triple-double with 25 points, 15 rebounds and 11 blocks at St. Francis Brooklyn and recorded a double-double in over half (10-of-18) the league games this season.

Haines finished her career tied for 12^th all-time on the SHU career points list with 1,249 while she also finished ranked eighth all-time in rebounds (783) and fourth in career blocks (134) in program history.

This marks Hoehn's third postseason honor of the 2018-19 season. He was a First Team All-Conference selection by the Northeast Conference and a First Team All-District pick by the National Association of Basketball Coaches.

Hoehn became the eighth player in program-history to earn All-NEC First Team honors after finishing third in the NEC in scoring with 17.9 points per game. Hoehn shot 47.4% from the field and 40.6% from three this season, which ranked 12th and fifth in the NEC respectively.

Hoehn reached double-figure point totals in 28 of the Pioneers' 32 games, leading the team in scoring in 15 games and dropping at least 20 points in 11 of the 28 contests. Hoehn scored 1,366 career points, which ranks 23rd on the program's all-time scoring list.

Hoehn led SHU to a 15-17 season record and an 11-7 record in NEC-play, which secured the third seed in the NEC Tournament for the Pioneers.