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GUILFORD MEN'S SOCCER PLAYERS NAMED TO ALL-ODAC TEAM

Greensboro, NC (11/09/99) -- Guilford College senior Dax Baker (Greensboro, NC/Grimsley) and sophomore Ray King (Trenton, NJ/Pennington School) earned first team All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) soccer honors, the league announced Tuesday. The announcement marks the first time in Guilford history the league's head men's soccer coaches elected two Quakers to the first team squad.

Baker received his fourth all-conference recognition, his third as a member of the first team. He scored a career-high four goals and four assists for 12 points, the third-best total on the team. The center midfielder scored a career-best two goals in the Quakers' 4-2 loss at North Carolina Wesleyan October 2.

Baker concludes his stellar career with 43 points on 13 goals and 17 assists in 65 career matches. He ranks seventh on the Quakers' career points and goals lists and second in career assists. Baker earned first team All-ODAC honors as a freshman in 1995 after leading the Quakers with a career-high 14 points (4g, 6a) and again as a sophomore in 1996.

King.jpg (2436 bytes)King led Guilford's scorers and ranked among the ODAC leaders for most of the season with 30 points on 12 goals and six assists. He topped the Quakers' scoring chart for the second straight season and recorded the fifth-highest single-season point total in school history. The forward scored six goals and an assists over a four-game stretch this season, including his third career hat trick in a 3-2 Quakers' win over Marymount October 10. King recorded a goal or an assists in 11 of the team's 19 games this season. Through 37 career matches over two seasons, he has 57 career points (25g, 7a) - the fourth-highest total in school history.

Baker and King helped third-year head coach Liam Behrens' club to its best season since 1986. The Quakers finished with a 9-10 overall record and set a school record with a 4-5 conference mark. Guilford reached the ODAC Tournament for the first time since 1997 and recorded a win over league champion and NCAA playoff participant Virginia Wesleyan for the first time in eight meetings. Baker is one of four graduating seniors from this year's club, while King returns with 13 additional letter winners in 2000.

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