{"id":149318,"date":"2026-02-09T21:44:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/149318\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T21:44:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:44:49","slug":"della-rocco-named-asun-defensive-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/149318\/","title":{"rendered":"Della Rocco Named ASUN Defensive Player Of The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. &#8212; Jacksonville graduate student goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/ryan-della-rocco\/7453\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7453\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Della Rocco<\/a> was named ASUN Defensive Player of the Week for the fourth time in his career after another elite performance between the pipes for the Dolphins.<\/p>\n<p>Della Rocco manned the net for Jacksonville against No. 6 North Carolina, holding the Tar Heels to 11 goals while being credited with 15 saves. He stopped the ball at a 57.7% rate, holding a star-studded Tar Heel attack at bay.<\/p>\n<p>This is his second-consecutive game with at least 15 saves, both coming against ranked opponents. He&#8217;s one of three goalies in the country with at least 15 saves in two games this season, and the only one to do it against two ranked opponents.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s currently third nationally in saves per game and top 10 in save percentage.<\/p>\n<p>Della Rocco has recorded at least 15 saves in a game six times in his career. He sits second all-time in program history with 414 saves and counting.<\/p>\n<p>Della Rocco and the Dolphins will finally get a chance to play in front of the home crowd at Rock Stadium this weekend when Jacksonville hosts Le Moyne in a Duel of the Dolphins. Opening faceoff is slated for noon on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; JACKSONVILLE, Fla. &#8212; Jacksonville graduate student goalie Ryan Della Rocco was named ASUN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-149318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}